Port Perry Workshop
Date:
July 18, 2008
Type:
Beginner Seminar
Location:
Port Perry
Status:
Completed
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Canada Blooms 2008
Date:
March 6, 2008 to March 8, 2008
Type:
Demonstration
Location:
Toronto Convention Centre
Status:
Completed
On March 7-9 2008 DSWAC members Reid Snow, Mike Cryrka, Dean McLellan and John Shaw-Rimmington built an 8 foot diameter dry stone sphere for the 2008 Canada Blooms Show in Toronto at the Metro Convention Centre. The structure took about 12 tons of stone material to complete and stepped out from a 5 foot base to one-and-a-half feet and back in again, to create a convincingly round ball of stone. It was scary trying to determine just how much and how fast the structure could be stepped out using fairly short lengths of the stone material that was available.
Kingsmere Workshop
Date:
August 15, 2007 to August 16, 2007
Type:
Beginner Seminar
Location:
Ottawa
Status:
Completed
June 14-15 2008 Dry Stone Wall Workshop near Port Hope Ontario Completed
Date:
June 13, 2008 to June 14, 2008
Type:
Beginner Seminar
Location:
4664 tenth line
Status:
Completed
The June 14-15 the DSWAC two-day dry-laid walling workshop, to teach people the basics of using inexpensive random fieldstone to create a section of traditional free-standing garden was a great success.
Bruce Bridge Workshop in Ontario
Date:
August 22, 2008 to August 28, 2008
Type:
Beginner Seminar
Location:
Port Hope
Status:
Completed
Happy bridge builders.
Our fourth bridge building workshop on August 23-29 2008 was completed in 6 days with time to spare for some field trips to other bridges , older historic dry stone walls and quarries in the area.
Glendale BC Seminars
Date:
October 19, 2007 to October 28, 2007
Type:
Beginner Seminar
Location:
Glendale British Columbia
Status:
Completed
During the last half of October 2007, the DSWAC was invited to Glendale Gardens to help run some more dry stone walling workshops in British Columbia on Vancouver Island. These two day workshops were very well attended and produced some wonderful new stone walls which are situated near the enclosed Japanese garden and nearby, to the south of vegetable garden. The students learned how to build with dump loads of local random blasted rock (mostly boulders) as well as stack flatter gneiss rock, which is much more expensive and comes delivered on pallets.
Fourth Annual Northumberland Dry Stone Wall Festival
Date:
October 5, 2007 to October 7, 2007
Type:
Festival
Location:
Port Hope
Status:
Completed
Many people have told us that the 2007 Northumberland Dry Stone Wall Festival was the best one ever.
Wellington Hubb Creek Bridge Seminar
Date:
July 28, 2007 to August 5, 2007
Type:
Advanced Seminar
Location:
Wellington, Prince Edward County
Status:
Completed
The DSWAC held a special bridge building course July 29 through to August 6th at Karlo Estates near Wellington in Prince Edward County Ontario 2007. Over the 9 day period, men and women of various backgrounds coming from as far away as Texas, Alberta and Quebec attended this special hands-on workshop.
Blackhouse
Date:
July 13, 2007 to July 14, 2007
Type:
Advanced Seminar
Location:
Holsein (Ontario)
Status:
Completed
In Holsein Ontario in Canada, work began on the construction of a completely dry stone 'blackhouse'.
Sixth Town Historic Workshops
Date:
June 19, 2007 to June 20, 2007
Type:
Beginner Seminar
Location:
Prince Edward County
Status:
Completed
At Prince Edward County this June, the DSWAC ran a second beginner's course, at the historic 6th Town Workshops site. A long section of wall was completed over the two days using round local granite stones this time, instead of the local flat limestone we used for the course last year. The wall extends along another side of a reproduction cemetery enclosure being created beside the lovely Anglican church which has been moved to the property and has been restored by Diane and John Brisley.