Publications & Presentations

September 2024 — Through a Child’s Eyes: The Words & Photos of Glenbow Children. Paper presented for the St. David’s Book Club.

July 2024 — Flags, Firehalls and Firemen. Paper presented during Historic Calgary Week, for Chinook Country Historical Society and the Calgary Public Library.

June 2024 — The Unbreakable Porcelain Doll: Digging Up the Hidden History of Girls & Women. Paper presented at Haskayne Legacy Park for the Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation.

March 2024 — The Men Who Brought the Train to Town. Paper presented for the Manor Rocky Ridge.

February 2024 — Remembering Alberta Parks: An Archaeological Adventure in Glenbow Ranch, In Over My Head podcast Season 10: Episode 3 by Michael Bartz.

February 2024 — “…And A Few of the Best of Us.” Paper presented during the Blood, Sweat and Tears Lecture Series at The Military Museums, Calgary.

October 2023 — If These Walls Could Talk: The Ghosts of Glenbow. Paper presented for the Manor Rocky Ridge.

July 2023 — The Men Who Brought the Train to Town. Paper presented during Historic Calgary Week, for Chinook Country Historical Society and the Calgary Public Library.

July 2023 — The Men Who Brought the Train to Town. Paper presented for United active Living at Garrison Green.

July 2023 — The Men Who Brought the Train to Town. Paper presented for United active Living at Fish Creek.

June 2023 — If These Walls Could Talk: The Ghosts of Glenbow. Paper presented for the Cochrane Historical & Archival Preservation Society.

May 2023 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Paper presented for the Bearspaw Historical Society.

April 2023 — The Unbreakable Porcelain Doll: Digging Up the Hidden History of Girls & Women. Paper presented at the Steppin’ Out Conference of the Calgary Board of Education Retired Teachers Association.

March 2023 — Through a Child’s Eyes: The Words & Photos of Glenbow Children. Paper presented for the Cremona Book Club.

February 2023 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Paper presented for the Calgary Board of Education Genealogy Group.

November 2022 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Paper presented for Alberta Family Histories Society.

July 2022 — The Unbreakable Porcelain Doll: Digging Up the Hidden History of Girls & Women. Virtual Presentation during Historic Calgary Week, for Chinook Country Historical Society and the Calgary Public Library.

July 2022 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Paper presented at Sundre Municipal Library.

June 2022 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Paper presented at Cochrane Public Library.

June 2022 — Through a Child’s Eyes: The Words & Photos of Glenbow Children. Paper presented at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park.

June 2022 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Paper presented at Airdrie Public Library.

June 2022 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Paper presented at Olds Municipal Library.

May 2022 — Alberta’s Cornerstone: Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Heritage House Publishing, British Columbia.

August 2021 — The People of Glenbow History Tour. Tenth Anniversary Event for Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation.

July 2021 — Building the Sandstone City. Virtual Presentation during Historic Calgary Week, for Chinook Country Historical Society and the Calgary Public Library.

2021 — Landscaping at Christ Church, Elbow Park. The Journal of the History and Archives Committee of Christ Church, Elbow Park 3(1): 33-35.

August 2020 — Dog Days to Space Age: Glenbow’s Transportation Story. Virtual Presentation for Chinook Country Historical Society and the Calgary Public Library.

July 2019 — Echoes of the Past: Parties of a Ghost Town. Paper presented at Historic Calgary Week.

September 2018 — Historical Research Study: 2017 Glenbow Town and Quarry Project, Investigations at Sites EgPo-18, EgPo-22, EgPo-26 Final Report.

July 2018 — Interview on The Homestretch, CBC Calgary.

July 2018 — Unearthing the Story of A Ghost Town at Glenbow Quarry. Paper presented at Historic Calgary Week.

May 2018 — 2017 Glenbow Town and Quarry Project. Paper presented at Cochrane Public Library.

September 2017 — Glenbow Town and Quarry Archaeology Project. Tour presented at the Alberta Parks Volunteer Conference, Calgary.

July 2017 — Glenbow Townsite. Tour presented for Historic Calgary Week.

June 2017 — Interview on The Eyeopener, CBC Calgary.

March 2017 — Life (& Death) at an Historic Quarry: the Glenbow Town and Quarry Project. Paper presented at Heritage Trades Roundtable, Calgary.

July 2016 — Glenbow Townsite. Tour presented for Historic Calgary Week.

April 2016 — Glenbow Town and Quarry Archaeology Project: the Future Meets the Past – Today. Paper presented at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park.

December 2015 — A Farm of Own’s Own: Examples of Dutch-Catholic Immigration to the U.S. and Canada. Privately published, Calgary.

October 2015 — Glenbow Town and Quarry Archaeology Project. Tour presented at the Heritage Energized 2015 National Trust Conference, Calgary.

July 2015 — Glenbow Townsite. Tour presented for Historic Calgary Week.

July 2015 — A Man of the People – Jacob Geurts. Chinook 35(4):5-7.

April 2015 — Illustrate Your Family Tree. Chinook 35(3):6-7.

October 2014 — On the Advice of his Wife. Chinook 35(1):11-13.

July 2014 — Glenbow Townsite. Tour presented for Historic Calgary Week.

April 2014 — Glenbow Town and Quarry Project: Historic Archaeology in Your Own Backyard. Paper presented at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park.

January 2014 — Glenbow Town and Quarry Project: Community History One Family at a Time. Paper presented at Alberta Family Histories Society, Calgary.

July 2013 — Glenbow Townsite. Tour presented for Historic Calgary Week.

July 2012 — Glenbow Townsite. Tour presented for Historic Calgary Week.

April 2012 — The People of Glenbow Village: Sculpting Alberta’s Story. Paper presented at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park.

January 2012 — Glenbow Town and Quarry. Chinook 32(2):20-21.

July 2011 — Glenbow Townsite. Tour presented for Historic Calgary Week.

November 2010 — The Prairie to the Port and the Peaks Between. Privately published, Calgary.

2003 — The Tuscany High School Program:  Involving Youth in Archaeology. Proceedings from the 28th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary.

June 1998 — In Search of Ancient Alberta. Heartland Associates Inc., Winnipeg. (contributing author / editor)

December 1997 — Digging into Calgary’s Past:  Excavations and Reconstructions at Fort Calgary Historic Park.  Alberta Archaeological Review 27:9-10.

April 1997 — The Archaeology of Fort Calgary.  Paper presented at the 22nd Annual General Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, Calgary.

November 1996 — Fauna in Parks Archaeology.  Paper presented at the Human Influence on Mountain Ecosystems Workshop, Cultural Heritage, Parks Canada, Jasper.

November 1995 — The Tuscany High School Program:  Involving Youth in Archaeology. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary.

June 1995 — Protohistoric Butchering at Four Oldman River Dam Reservoir Sites. MA Thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.

April 1992 — Sourcing the Trudel Cache:  An Examination of Petrographic Thin Sections. Paper presented at the 18th Annual General Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, Grande Prairie.