Edwinna von Baeyer

Freelance writer/researcher/editor since 1978.

Listed in Canadian Who's Who and Who's Who of Canadian Women

Résumé

Writing

Books
Selected articles
Reports
Business profiles and Web blurbs
Issue Papers
Brochures
Fact sheets


Editing

Editor of
Editing contracts


Interpretation contracts


Research contracts

Bibliographies

Lectures

Grants

Education

Memberships

Internet and New Media Experience

WRITING

Books
Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching the History of a Garden or Landscape , Ottawa: EvB Communications, 2007.

100 Years of Community Service: History of the May Court Club, May Court Club, Ottawa, 1999.

Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing, with Pleasance Crawford, Random House, 1995.

The No-Garden Gardener: Gardening on Balconies, Decks, Patios and Porches, with Dinah Shields, Random House, 1993.

The Reluctant Gardener: A Beginners Guide, with Dinah Shields, Random House, 1992.

Garden of Dreams: Kingsmere and Mackenzie King, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1990.

Rhetoric and Roses: A History of Canadian Gardening, 1900-1930, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, Ontario, 1984.

Selected Articles
Rewrote chapter on Métis fiddlers for Hidden in Plain Sight: Aboriginal Contributions to Canadian Life and Culture, Vol. II, fall 2007.

7 success storey on housing initiative on First Nations' reserves, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2007.

Media tips; radio scripts; success stories - all concerning Aboriginal housing issues for Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 2005, 2006, 2007.

14 success stories highlighting specific First Nations and housing issues, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2006 and 2007.

Rewrote (ghostwriter) chapter on history of Aboriginal music in Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2006.

Numerous webpages for the Canadian International Development Agency web re-design project, Nov. 2005 - April 2006.

"Highlights of Accomplishments: National Forest Strategy, 2003-2008," Canadian Forest Service, 2005.

"Walking Tall: The Mohawk Ironworker" for In Plain Sight: Aboriginal Contributions to Canadian Culture and Identity , University of Toronto, forthcoming 2005.

"Rideau Hall Stable," Canadian Heritage Magazine , Fall 2004.

International Youth Internship Program, Canadian International Development Agency, Web site, 2004.

"HIV/AIDS," "Child Refugees," "Water Issues," "Peacekeeping," "Climate Change," for Youth Zone, "Hot Topics," Canadian International Development Agency, Web site, 2003.

"The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers," Forestry Chronicle , June 2003.

Various historical articles for Parks Canada's Web site, 2003.

Correspondence for the Canadian Passport Office, 2003.

13 information sheets for Cities Feeding People Program, International Development Research Centre, 2001-2002.

G-8 conference, "Partnership for Africa", 6 African success stories for media kit, International Development Research Centre, 2001.

Central and Eastern Europe Branch, Canadian International Development Agency, Web site introductory pages, 2001.

Business profile and product descriptions, Versatel Networks, Hull, 2001.

Web site, international cooperation between Japan and Canada, Canadian International Development Agency. 2001.

60 stories from the field/success stories on Canadian International Development Agency's Central and Eastern European Branch and Asia Branch projects, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

"Point of View" for The State of Canada's Forests , Canadian Forest Service, 1995-99. 2001.

Numerous articles, Circles of Light , Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1999, 2000, 2001.

"Writing Effective World Wide Web Pages," Internet World Online , October 1996.

"Internet: A World at Your Fingertips," Heritage Magazine , Canada Post, May 1996.

Updated five articles originally prepared for the first edition of the Canadian Encyclopedia , McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1995.

"Model Forests and Wildlife" and "Partners Planting Trees," in The State of Canada's Forests 1994 report, Canadian Forest Service, 1995.

"The Electronic Streetscape: Architectural Resources on the Internet," Canadian Heritage Magazine , May 1995.

"Interview with Sandy Smallwood," ICOMOS Canada Bulletin , February 1995.

"The First Hundred -- Heritage Railway Stations," Impact , January 1994.

"Funding Possibilities for NGOs," Treeroots Network Social Forestry Report , 1993 -- 6 article series.

"EcoLogo -- The Consumer's Environmental Choice," Government Purchasing Guide , March 1991.   (Part of six-article contract.)

"Isabella Preston, 1881-1964: An Explorer of the Horticultural Frontier," in , Despite the Odds, Essays on Canadian Women and Science , ed. Marianne G. Ainley, Vehicle Press, Montreal, 1990.

"The Home Gardener of the 1880s," in Consuming Passions: Eating and Drinking Traditions in Ontario , Ontario Historical Society, Toronto, 1990.

Reports
History of Wellington Street South and Sparks Street North - including building and lot histories for the stretch between Elgin and Bank streets, Parks Canada, May 2005-Jan. 2006.

History of the Rockcliffe Rockeries Park, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, 2003.

History of Place du Portage III, ARCOP, 2003.

History of the National Archives/National Library Heating Plant Area, National Capital Commission, 2003.

History of the Sussex Avenue Courtyards, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, 2003.

History of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, 2002.

Two Mackenzie King Estate reports on cultural landscape and components of estate, 2002.

McTaggart Wall, New Edinburgh, History, National Capital Commission, December 2001.

Report of Accomplishments, National Forest Strategy 1998-2003 , Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, 2000.

History of Sparks Street, Ottawa, in photographs, Public Works and Government Services, 2001.

Evolution of Vegetative Change along the Ottawa River Embankment, 1820-1999, Parliamentary Precinct Directorate, 1999.

Asia Branch, Record of Achievements, 1998-99, CIDA, Fall 1999.

International Forest Partnerships Program, proposal, Canadian Forest Service, 1999.

International Model Forest Network annual report, 1997.

Landscape history of Rockcliffe Park, Ontario, National Capital Commission, 1996.

Landscape history of Maplelawn, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, 1995.

Annual report for 1991; and for 1993, Environmental Choice Program, Environment Canada, 1991-1992; and 1994.

Profile of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, RMOC Planning Department, 1993 - 1994.

History of Hog's Back and Vincent Massey parks, Ottawa, for the National Capital Commission, 1993.

Landscape history of Fulford Place, Brockville, Ont. for Ontario Historical Foundation, 1992.

The History of the Rideau Hall Landscape, Rideau Hall Landscape Conservation Study, National Capital Commission and Heritage Conservation Program, Public Works Canada, 1991.

Business profiles and Web blurbs

NSPaN, Nortel Networks - business profile; product descriptions for NSPaN Web site; NSPaN employee communications, including articles for company Intranet; case studies; white papers. 2000-2001.

Versatel Networks - business profile; product descriptions. 2001.

Issue Papers
Wetlands; Soil and Water Conservation; Stewardship; New Research -- intersection of agriculture and the environment, Agriculture Canada, winter 1994.

"Non-Wood Forest Products," "Food Security and Forests," "Tropical Forest Biodiversity Conservation," "India Tree-Grower's Cooperative," "ICRAF Agroforestry ," Canadian International Development Agency, May 1992-March 1993; Nov.1994-April 1995. Mounted on WWW 1996.

Brochures
Long-term Capital Plan, for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, March-June 2003.

Brochure on the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers for Natural Resources Canada, June 2003.

"Canada Hungers for Wastepaper," Canadian Forest Service, March 1994.

"Sustainable Forestry," Department of Forestry, March 1992.

"The Amazing Potato" and "The Mechanized Potato," Museum of Science and Technology potato exhibit, September 1991.

"Heritage Day 1991," Heritage Canada, February 1991.

Fact sheets/Press releases
Media releases for the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, 2000-2001.

Various backgrounders on designated historic sites, Parks Canada, 1997-99.

Series of nine fact sheets on the International Model Forest Network for the IMFN Secretariat, 1996.

Series of press releases for Department of Canadian Heritage -- 45 heritage railway stations, 6 historic sites, 1994, 1996.

Backgrounders on Canadian Race Relations Foundation, for Multiculturalism and Citizenship Canada, 1991.

Marketing fact sheets for twelve divisions of the Canada Communication Group, 1991-1992.

EDITOR OF...
Friends of the Central Experimental Farm Newsletter, 1996-99.
CCI Newsletter, Canadian Conservation Institute, 1996- 1997; single issues 2003, 2004.
ICOMOS Canada Bulletin, ICOMOS Canada, Ottawa, 1992; 1994 - 1998
Update, Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, National Forest Strategy newsletter, 1993 --
Recycling Railway Corridors, Canadian Rails to Greenways Network newsletter, 1993-95
NAFA Quarterly, National Aboriginal Forestry Association newsletter, 1993.
Forestry on the Hill, Canadian Forestry Association, October 1991--1995.
Pollen, newsletter of the ICOMOS Canada, Historic Gardens and Landscapes Committee, 1987-93
EcoLogo, newsletter of the Environmental Choice Program, 1992.

EDITING (selected contracts)
Canadian Conservation Institute, in-house editor summer 2007.

Numerous reports for the Canadian International Development Agency: CIDA's Microfinance Guidelines; Effects of Microfinance on Children; Bosnia & Herzegovina country profiles; CIDA Terms and Conditions for Grants and Contributions in Support of International Development Assistance, Treasury Board submission and detailed report; 2007.

National Forest Strategy Coalition Evaluation Report of the National Forest Strategy 2003-2008, National Forest Strategy Coalition Secretariate, Nov. 2006- Feb. 2007.

Editing of websites for the Canadian International Development Agency web re-design project, Nov. 2005-April 2006.

Special Education Program Guidelines, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, February 2006.

Canada Corps program - Q&As, articles, etc. April - June 2005.

DRDC Publishing Standard for Scientific and Technical Documents, 2 nd edition, National Defence Canada, March 2005.

CIDA Ombudsman's annual report, Canadian International Development Agency, March 2005.

INAC Ombudsman's annual report, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, March 2005.

Annual report and various backgrounders, etc., Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada, winter 2005.

NAP Contaminated Sites Program Performance Report 2004, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, January 2005.

Canada Health Act Annual Report , Health Canada, 2004 and 2005.

Parks Canada Youth Zone Web pages, Parks Canada, November 2004.

CCI September newsletter, Canadian Conservation Institute, Canadian Heritage, October 2004.

Saskatchewan Science Curriculum - National Parks modules, Parks Canada, April-August 2004.

Guidelines for Repatriation of Parks Canada Agency's Moveable Cultural and Human Remains of Aboriginal Affiliation, April-August 2004.

5 social program manuals, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, April-July 2004.

Museum Preservation manual, Canadian Conservation Institute, June 2004.

Canadian Conservation Institute, May and November newsletters, March-August 2004.

DRDC Publication Standards, Department of National Defence, November 2003-February 2004.

"Time for Nature" - Web articles (40) and video scripts, Parks Canada, Jan.-July 2004.

Applied Pressure, book mauscript, Canadian Conservation Institute, February 2004.

Canada Health Act Annual Report, 2002-2003, November-December 2003 and 2003-2004 Report, November-December 2004..

Canadian Conservation Institute annual report, July-August 2003.

Canadian Conservation Institute, June and November newsletters, June-August 2003.

National Forest Strategy - 2003-2008, Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, 2003.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture , University of Toronto Press, in press, for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2002.

Canada-Japan international cooperation Web pages, Canadian International Development Agency, 2001, 2002.

Conservation bulletins for Canadian Conservation Institute Web site, December 2001; January 2002.

China - Integrated Rural Development Poverty Reduction Project report, Canadian International Development Agency, November 2001.

"Water and Globalization", private client, chapter in IDRC book, November 2001.

Parks Canada overview, Web site, August 2001.

"Youth Participation at the Winnipeg Conference on War-affected Children", Canadian International Development Agency, May 2001.

A Community Guide to Protecting Indigenous Knowledge, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Feb. - April 2000; March-April 2001.

CIDA Inc. materials for clients, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), June 2000.

Many publications for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1994-2000.

NSPaN Web site, Nortel Networks, Fall 1999.

Conference proposals, NSPaN, Nortel Networks, Fall 1999.

Video logs and project summaries, CIDA, Summer ­ Fall 1999.

NATO Research and Technology Strategy documents, Canadian Communications Group, 1999.

International Development Research Centre, various Web sites, 1998-99.

The Good Fight: The Life of Dr. Leonora King, book manuscript, Canadian Medical Association, August ­ November 1998.

Technical editor, NORTEL, part-time, 1997-1998.

International development WWW pages, International Development Research Centre, 1998.

Wildlife Habitat Canada annual report, 1997.

Technical bulletins, CCI Notes, and other communications projects, Canadian Conservation Insitute, 1996- 1997.

The Canadian Indian, Department of Indian and Northern Development, February 1997.

Proceedings of the Second Urban Forestry Conference, Canadian Forestry Association, 1996.

Legal brief for World Court Case on seizure of Spanish fishing vessel, Foreign Affairs, 1996.

Project de société: Canadian Choices for Transitions to Sustainability report, National Round Table on the Economy and the Environment, 1995.

Report on environmental concerns on Canadian campuses, National Round Table on the Economy and the Environment, 1995.

Proceedings of the World Heritage Canals Conference, Canadian Heritage, 1995.

Natural Sciences Newsletter, UNESCO Canada, Feb. 1995.

ENVIROFOR '94 proceedings for the Canadian Forestry Association, 1994.

State of Canada's Forests, annual report, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Canadian Forest Service.

Written Aids for Training -- Trainer's Guide, Training and Development Canada, 1993.

Mines and Minerals Activities 1992, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1993.

Canada's Green Plan -- The Second Year, Environment Canada, 1993.

Report on Eastern European Housing, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1992.

National Forest Congress Proceedings for Canadian Forestry Association, 1992.

Architectural Conservation Technology Manuals for Architectural and Engineering Services, Public Works Canada, 1992.

Health Canada, departmental reports, 1991.

Let's Talk and Focus, Correctional Service Canada, 1991--92.

INTERPRETATION
Historical consultant, National Capital Commission, Mackenzie King estate, 1986-89.

Interpretative panels, photo exhibition for Moorside, the Mackenzie King estate, 1988.

Provincial trees of Canada, poster, Canadian Forestry Association, 1992.

RESEARCH CONTRACTS
Background research of 3 communities on the Trent-Severn Canal, property assessment, AltusHelyar, Fall 2006.

Historical research for legal case for Contentworks, November 2005-May 2006.

History of Wellington Street South and Sparks Street North - including building and lot histories for the stretch between Elgin and Bank streets, Parks Canada, May 2005-January 2006. Research involved photo, map and architectural drawings collecting and writing up capsule histories of buildings and lots.

Canada's Geography, History and Politics, an appendix to the Dictionary of Canadian English - fact checking and some research for Geddes & Grosset publishing house, Scotland, September 2005.

Parliamentary Precinct research involving photo, map and architectural drawings collecting and writing up capsule histories of areas in the precinct, 2005.

History of Rockcliffe Rockeries Report, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, 2003.

History of Place du Portage III, ARCOP, 2003.

History of the National Archives/National Library Heating Plant Area, National Capital Commission, 2003.

History of the Sussex Avenue Courtyards, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, 2003.

History of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, 2002.

Two Mackenzie King Estate reports on cultural landscape and components of estate, 2002.

McTaggart's Wall, New Edinburgh, Ottawa, National Capital Commission, December 2001.

Evolution of Vegetative Change along the Ottawa River Embankment, 1820-1999, Parliamentary Precinct Directorate, 1999.

Brockville Psychiatric Hospital, Brockville, Ont., historic landscape analysis, 1999.

Parliament Hill Landscape Plan project, Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg Inc., 1998-99.
Rockcliffe Park, Ontario, landscape history, for the National Capital Commission, 1996.

Online Internet research, Joanne Latremoille, cultural landscapes, 1996-1998.

Online Internet research, Parks Canada bibliography on memory and culture, 1995.

Online Internet research, InternetInfo Publishers, Fairfax, Virginia, 1995.

Maplelawn, Ottawa, landscape history for the National Capital Commission, 1995.

History of the J. Paton Company, private client, 1993.

Hog's Back and Vincent Massey parks, landscape history, Ottawa, for the National Capital Commission, 1993.

Japanese redress, road camp lists, for private client, 1992.

Fulford House, Brockville, Ont., landscape history and business history for Ontario Historical Foundation, 1992.

Alternative energy study, Canada Post, 1991.

Rideau Hall Landscape Conservation, 1990-91.

Researcher and expert witness for City of Ottawa designation case before Conservation Review Board, re: Beechwood and Notre Dame Cemeteries, Ottawa, 1987.

Research Assistant, Construction History Section, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, National Parks Service, 1981, contracts in 1984, 1986.

Bibliographies/Indexes
Bibliographies for 11 Aboriginal Workplace Participation Initiative toolkit manuals, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2001.

Ontario Rural Society: 1867-1930: A Thematic Index of Ontario Agricultural Periodicals, 1986. (Microfiche index of 63,000 items).

A Preliminary Bibliography for Garden History in Canada, National Parks Service, Ottawa, 1983. Revised, enlarged edition, 1987. Revised. enlarged edition, 1993.

LECTURES (selected)
"The Enchanted Garden of William Lyon Mackenzie King," Oakville Galleries Home Landscape lecture series, November 2004.

History of the Ottawa Horticultural Society on its 115th anniversary, January 2003.

Distinguished Speakers' Series, University of Windsor, "W.T. Macoun and the Gospel of Horticulture", March 2002.

Workshop, "Mackenzie King and his landscape," National Capital Commission, 2002, 2003, 2004.

"Editing World Wide Web Pages," workshop for the Editors' Association of Canada, April 1999.

"How Journalists Can Use the World Wide Web," National Press Club, June 1996.

"Mackenzie King and his Kingsmere Gardens," Harvard Alumni Club, June 1996.

"Writers and the World Wide Web," Ottawa Independent Writers' workshop, May 1996.

"Kingsmere and Mackenzie King," Rockcliffe Garden Club, April 1993.

"Lady Minto-Lady Grey Garden Competitions," City of Ottawa Heritage Gardening Lecture Series, April 1990.

"The Ontario Home Vegetable Garden of the 1880s," Ontario Historical Society annual conference, May 1989.

AWARDS

Certificate of Achievement for research and writing on Heritage Gardens, Ontario Heritage Foundation, 2005.

GRANTS FOR WRITING AND RESEARCH
Ontario Arts Council, 2005, research on Canadian horticultural history.

Canada Council, Explorations Program Grant, 1981, and Ontario Arts Council, 1984 for Rhetoric and Roses.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian Studies Research Tools Program, grant for index of Ontario agricultural periodicals, 1983-1985.

EDUCATION<
B.A., University of Michigan, 1968.

M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1970.

Diploma, Horticulture and Landscaping, Algonquin College, Ottawa, 1980.

Independent study on English garden history, University of Reading, England, 1980.

MEMBERSHIPS

City of Ottawa Archives, Board of Directors, Vice-president, Secretary, 2002-2006

City of Ottawa, Heritage Advisory Council, 2001-2004

Editors' Association of Canada Ottawa Independent Writers, Board of Directors, 1990-96; Secretary, 1992

Friends of the Central Experimental Farm, Board of Directors, 1996-1999

ICOMOS Canada

Heritage Ottawa

 


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