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Jan 15-16 workshop at Landscape Ontario

Date: 
January 14, 2005 to January 15, 2005
Type: 
Advanced Seminar
Location: 
Milton
Status: 
Completed

The weekend of Jan 15th-16th was an important occasion for dry stone walling in Canada. The two day course at Landscape, Ontario set something of an historical precedence. This is perhaps the first time a dry stone wall course has been given completely indoors in Canada, teaching students the method of building not just one, but two different types of wall.

Jan 29-30 indoor workshop at Landscape Ontario

Date: 
January 28, 2005 to January 29, 2005
Type: 
Advanced Seminar
Location: 
Milton
Status: 
Completed

Our first Advanced DSWAC Dry Stone Wall Masonry Course was held indoors in a beautifully warm and spacious building near Milton Ontario. The course was taught by John Shaw-Rimmington and Dean McClellan who worked with ten students from Canada and the United States for two days to produce this attractive dry laid wall, nearly forty feet of well fitted stones complete with cheek ends, arch and styles and shaped coping.

Milton Indoor Experimental Workshop

Date: 
February 11, 2005 to February 12, 2005
Type: 
Advanced Seminar
Location: 
Milton
Status: 
Completed

Our third DSWAC indoor training session which we held at Landscape Ontario near Milton Ontario Canada on Feb 12 and 13 2005 was a complete success. Participants, (four men, three women) ranging in age from 18 to 70 (happy birthday, Ian) , from a wide variety of professions, came together to learn about dry stone walling.

Workshop at Landscape Ontario

Date: 
April 8, 2005 to April 9, 2005
Type: 
Beginner Seminar
Location: 
Milton
Status: 
Completed

On April 9 and 10 2005 the Dry Stone Walling Across Canada held a special dry stone workshop OUTSIDE at the premises of Landscape Ontario. The first day was wonderfully bright, so we decided to move the 20 tonnes of stone inside the greenhouse to the parking lot. With two instructors and 8 eager students we constructed two training walls, configured in a 'T' formation.

 

 

Terra Cotta Sept 11-12 2004 Workshop

Date: 
September 10, 2004
Type: 
Beginner Seminar
Location: 
Near Belfountain Ontario
Status: 
Completed

A number of enthusiastic men and women gathered south of Belfountain to learn how to build stone walls without mortar. Armed with some basic instructions from John Shaw-Rimmington (president of the DSWAC) they immediately put their knowledge to use and produced this dry stone wall using mostly rounded granite fieldstone.
These lucky stones get to spend the next 100 years knitted together in a beautiful and practical wall instead of being discarded along fence lines or worse, completely buried by bulldozers and backhoes.

Mansfield Oct 23-24

Date: 
October 22, 2004
Type: 
Beginner Seminar
Location: 
Mansfield Ont
Status: 
Completed
The Oct 23 and 24th at 2004 Mansfield DSWAC Seminar was a monumental challenge. Six different types of stones were presented to us for using in the training of beginners to build dry stone walls with. There was irregular Digby Water Rock, many many tonnes of broken 1 inch flagstone, some irregular field stone covered in mud, various quantities of 2nds of quarried dolomite limestone and a huge pile of melon shaped River Rock with only a small pile of flat quarried granite looking like it wanted to be made into a dry stone wall.

Livingstone Workshop

Date: 
November 12, 2004
Type: 
Beginner Seminar
Location: 
Bellfountain Ontario
Status: 
Completed

We kind of took a chance and planned one last Dry Stone Wall Workshop for November 13th 2004 on Mississauga Road near Brampton. The weather turned out to be terrific.

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