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Town council has directed staff “to write a formal letter to the Ontario Heritage Trust (formerly known as the Ontario Heritage Foundation) to negotiate new terms of a lease agreement ensuring the OHT covers all future capital expenditures required to maintain and preserve” the Museum of Northern History.
Currently the municipality is in the middle of a lengthy multi-year lease agreement with the OHT, an agreement that council feels is no longer financially viable.
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Barry Sampson: 1948-2020
Barry Sampson at work. From www.bsnarchitects.com
Barry Sampson, my former partner in the firm Baird Sampson Neuert, died on Saturday, December 5. He is survived by his partner Judi Coburn and their two sons, Benjamin and Martin.
Barry was born in 1948 in Oshawa, Ontario, and spent his childhood and youth there, arriving at the University of Toronto in 1967 to commence his education in architecture. He and his classmates started their architectural studies just as a dramatic new curriculum was launched by Peter Prangnell, under the aegis of a newly appointed Chair of Architecture, John Andrews.
I first met Barry the following year, when I joined U of T as a new faculty member. He was never directly my student, but we knew each other at a distance. Then, upon their graduation in 1972, Barry, together with his classmates Joost Bakker, Bruce Kuwabara and John van Nostrand came to me, and proposed to me that they join my fledgling one-person architectural p