When: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Where: Yukon Transportation Museum (30 Electra Crescent, Whitehorse)
Join YHMA at our 2025 Yukon Heritage Symposium for a chance to meet new colleagues and catch up with old ones, be inspired by new ideas and trends, and share knowledge and standards of practices.
Registration is free of charge and food is provided. Participants may register for the morning sessions, afternoon workshop, or both.
Program Overview
9:45: Doors open (refreshments sponsored by Know History)
10:00-10:15: Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:15 -11:15: “Pecha-Kucha” style presentations:
- Preserving Yukon’s Soundscape: Open-Source Innovations at CJUC Radio (Rob Hopkins)
- Technology as a Storytelling Tool in Heritage (Thomas Van Dewark)
- A Year of Heritage Sites (Karen Routledge)
- Meaningful Community-Engaged Research: Reflections from My Summer in Dawson (Patricia Roussel)
- George Black: The Forgotten Hero (Michael Gates and Kathy Jones-Gates)
- Updates from YHMA (Lianne Maitland)
11:15-11:30: Morning break (refreshments sponsored by Know History)
11:30-12:15: “Pecha-Kucha” style presentations & guest speaker:
- FNSB (Melissa Flynn)
- Yukon Your Way (Amanda Dueling and Caroline Anderson)
- Connected North – Empowering Youth and using technology to foster authentic experiences guided by Indigenous knowledge holders (Brenda Sherry and Cheryl McLean)
- Going Outside the Lines: Difficult History Interpretation in Art Exhibitions (Jennifer Ford, Canadian Museum of History)
12:15-1:15: Lunch (provided)
1:15-4:15: Workshop (with afternoon break – refreshments provided): Canada’s Museums: Putting the ‘A’ (Accessibility) in IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Leading to belonging), presented by Ingenium and Realize:
Learn about the different models of disability and how they influence how we respond to ableism. Explore episodic disability, intersectionality, and accommodations. Dependent on time and participants’ interest, this workshop may also touch on topics such as integrating intersectionality in the workplace, principles of inclusive communication, practical ways to enhance communication, universal design, and other related topics.
Please note program may be subject to change.
Special thanks to Know History for their sponsorship of morning refreshments.
