San Francisco Dry Stone Walling Workshop
Parkdale & Toronto Horticultural Societies. An illustrated talk by DSWAC president John Shaw-Rimmington
John Shaw-Rimmington gave a 60 minute presentation discussing the use of stone in Canadian garden settings including walls, garden features, arches and bridges. The meeting of the Parkdale and Toronto Horticultural Societies meets at the Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church at 250 Dunn Avenue, Toronto,
San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
Members of the DSWAC helped build an 'on-the-bias' dry stone wall and garden arch feature for the Mariposa Gardens display at the San Francisco Flower and Garden show this March 2009.
2nd Indoor Walling Workshop for 2009
The 2009 Canadian Dry Stone Wall Festival
Blackhouse Workshop 2nd Phase
June 14 2009.
Students rest at the end of two days of intensive dry stone building in the hot sun.
The second phase of the Holsteing 'blackhouse' event was very successful.
Indoor workshop Jan 10-11
Participants from New York City, Ottawa, London, and Toronto came together to learn how to make dry laid walls this weekend January 10-11.
Our first DSWAC workshop of the new year was held inside a lovely barn just outside Grafton Ontario.
Niagara Parks School of Horticultural Dry Stone Garden Feature Workshop
A new dry stone wall structure was designed for the Niagara Botanical gardens by John Shaw-Rimmington and Evan Oxland and built by the students, under the instruction of Norman Haddow and John as part of the DSWAC dry stone garden feature workshop at the Niagara Park Commission School of Horticulture
Beaverton One-Day 'Gothic Ruins' Dry Stone Workshop
This November 1st the DSWAC gave a one-day course in Beaverton Ontario at the site of an ambitious dry stone wall folly built early May 2008 to look like an old church ruins
Ten students were given a day of hands-on instruction as they added to the north wall.
40 feet of wall was worked on and brought to a height where it adds another perspective to the overall look of this unique dry stone structure
Uxbridge Games
This year at the Highlands of Durham Games in Uxbridge, Ontario, members of the DSWAC and enthusiastic volunteers helped in the constructing of a large dry stone Celtic cross. The structure took 7 tons of stone and was finished in the rain on the 2nd day of the event. 
