About
WestHall Heritage
Research & Consulting
WHRC offers heritage preservation services for the conservation planning and management of cultural heritage resources with the highest standards of conservation principles and practices.
Working with clients in the U.S. and Canada, including U.S. Navy, the National Park Service, the states of Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, the Province of Ontario, various municipalities, architects, engineers, developers and not-for-profit organizations, WHRC ensures the value of our services achieve highly satisfied clients.
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Services
Historical Research
WHRC offers in-depth primary and secondary research services for all types of reports, plans and assessments to meet federal, provincial, state and municipal heritage conservation requirements.
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Report Writing, Review & Editing
WHRC provides expertise in report preparation for regulatory compliance monitoring, built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes resource management, submerged resource site management, including annual and quarterly reports and peer review of draft and completed cultural heritage resource reports.
Cultural Heritage Assessments
WHRC has extensive experience preparing Cultural Heritage Evaluation Reports, Strategic Conservation Plans and Heritage Impact Assessments as required for compliance with the Ontario Heritage Act and O.Regs. 9/06 & 10/06.
Services
Naval & Maritime History
WHRC has in-depth knowledge of naval and maritime history throughout the world, with particular expertise in American Civil War, Revolutionary War and Canadian naval and maritime history. WHRC has presented on these subjects at conferences and stakeholder engagement meetings nationally and internationally.
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Government Policy & Programs
WHRC provides professional and technical advice to federal, provincial, state and municipal governments, for the development and implementation of policies, regulations and guidelines for the protection and conservation of cultural heritage resources.
Submerged & Terrestrial Cultural Resource Management
WHRC with its broad depth of experience can undertake resource management plans for federal, provincial, state and not-for-profit organizations. These plans include but are not limited to, submerged and terrestrial shipwrecks, battlefieldd and built heritage sites.
Principal Consultant
W. Wilson West PhD CAHP
Dr. West has more than 40 years’ experience working in the culture/heritage sector as a historian, archaeologist, curator, researcher, policy advisor, and heritage preservation consultant in the public and private sector. As a Policy Advisor with the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sport (MTCS), he was the Project Lead for the development and implementation of guidelines and regulations for the protection of marine heritage resources, establishing Ontario’s first marine protected areas for the wreck sites of the USS Hamilton and USS Scourge, and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in O. Reg. 11/06 under the Ontario Heritage Act.
As a Culture Services Advisor at MTCS, he was Project Lead for the development of a Compliance Monitoring and Reporting Framework as required under the Standards and Guidelines for Conservation of Provincial Heritage Properties. Dr. West was the lead for the preliminary background research for the development of a Strategic Conservation Plan for Ontario Place, a Provincial Heritage Property of Provincial Significance. Dr. West is adept at managing stakeholder expectations, including provincial and municipal review authorities. He has extensive experience preparing cultural heritage evaluations required for compliance with the Ontario Heritage Act, including, but not limited to, Heritage Impact Assessments, Cultural Heritage Evaluation Reports and Strategic Conservation Plans.
Contact Us
360 Bloor Street, East
Suite 206
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4W 3M3
416.694.5684 (o) 416.316.3726 (m)