Award Recipients 2007-2022
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A.K. Sculthorpe Award for Advocacy
2022 – Margaret Davis and Gordon Prentice
2021 – Yorklands Green Hub
2020 – Paul Mullins
2019 – Lynes Blacksmith Shop, Kenilworth
2018 – The Working Centre, Kitchener (founders Jose & Stephanie Mancini)
2017 – Save the Gore Campaign, Hamilton
2016 – Carol Kleinfeldt and Kim Storey, Toronto
2015 – Mimico Station Community Organization
2014 – Marilyn Morawetz
2013 – Pamela Minns
2012 – Friends of Wesleyville Village, Port Hope
2011 – Paul Hubert & Board of Directors, Pathways Skill Development & Placement Centre, London
2010 – ACO Brantford
2009 – Honourable Mention: Kayla Jonas, Paul Dubniak, Martha Fallis, and Lindsay Benjamin, junior staff of the Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo
2009 – Honourable Mention: Citizens for the Protection and Preservation of Pioneer Cemetery, Peterborough
2008 – Dawn Doty and Suzanne van Bommel
2008 – Honourable Mention: Dawn Doty, St. Thomas; Donna Moore, London; and Kieran Dickson, Hamilton
2007 – SOS Églises
2007 – Caroline Di Cocco, Brian McHattie, Anthony Butler, Grant Head and Bill Curran
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ACO Media Award
2019 – Main Street Ontario
2018 – Simon Brothers and Dean Robinson
2017 – Alex Bozikovic
2016 – Taylor Hazell Architects
2015 – Watershed Magazine
2014 – Shannon Kyles
2013 – Graham Crawford
2012 – Chris Clark, Editor, Guelph Tribune
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ACO NextGen Award
2021 – Celeste Lamondin
2020 – Ali Piwowar
2020 – Stephen Henderson
2019 – Arlin Otto
2018 – Sampoorna Bhattacharya
2017 – Alexandre Krucker
2016 – Olivia Ashton
2015 – Old Niagara/Young Lenses, Grade 12 students of Holy Cross Secondary School, St. Catharines
2014 – Kyle Gonyou
2013 – Nancy Oakley
2012 – Jamie Bradburn
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ACO Public Education and Engagement Award
2022 – Potter’s Field Steering Committee
2021 – Brighter Days Ahead: The Oculus
2020 – Hear, Here London
2019 – Campbell House Museum, Lost and Found (Liz Driver with exhibit co-curators Leora Bebko, Hannah Hadfield, and Tanya McCullough)
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Carlos Ventin Award for Municipal Heritage Leadership
2022 – Scott Wilson, Wellington County
2021 – Leon Bensason, Kitchener
2020 – Alissa Golden, Hamilton
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James D. Strachan Award for Craft
2021 – Barkley Hunt
2020 – Jeremy Pfuetzner
2019 – Roger Vaughan
2018 – Eve Guinan, EGD Stained Glass Studio
2016 – Allan Avis Architects and project team
2015 – Alan Stacey, Heritage Mill
2014 – Heritage Restoration Inc.
2013 – Clayton Smith, President, the Commercial Realty Group, Toronto
2012 – Andrew Skuce, Paradigm Shift Customs, Paris
2011 – Clifford Restoration and the project team
2010 – John Wilcox, Vitreous Glassworks
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Margaret and Nicholas Hill Cultural Heritage Landscape Award
2022 – Fort Wellington National Historic Site
2021 – Save Our Rand Estate
2020 – Karl Frank
2019 – Barn Quilt Trail (Moya McPhail, Kathryn McHolm, Lois Richardson and Pamela Tate)
2018 – Leaside Matters
2017 – Sarah King Head
2016 – ERA Architects
2015 – Save Midhurst Village, led by Sandy Buxton, David Strachan and Margaret Prophet
2014 – Janet Rosenberg and Associates and the City of Guelph
2013 – Friends of Meadowlily Woods, London
2012 – The Red Cloud Cemetery Board, Cramahe Township
2011 – Wendy Shearer (MHBC)
2010 – Save the Bala Falls Group
2010 – Steve Peters, Speaker of the Legislature
2009 – Dr. Robert Shipley, Director of Heritage Resources at the University of Waterloo
2008 – The Friends of Ball Bridge
2008 – Honourable Mention: Ralph and Eugenia Bangay
2008 – Honourable Mention: Members of the Mount Hope Cemetery Commission involved in protecting the Covell Grove Pioneer Cemetery
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Paul Oberman Award for Adaptive Reuse
2022 – Aurora Armoury | Canadian Food & Wine Institute (Large-Scale)
2022 – St. John the Evangelist Anglican Parish Hall (Small-Scale)
2022 – The Little White Church (Small-Scale)
2021 – Bombardier Centre for Aerospace and Aviation, Toronto (Large-Scale)
2021 – Oxford Estates, Tillsonburg (Small-Scale)
2020 – Youth Opportunities Unlimited | 333 Richmond St, London (Large-Scale)
2020 – Church Off 22, Poplar Hill (Small-Scale)
2019 – Daniels Building at One Spadina Crescent, Toronto (Large-Scale)
2019 – St. Thomas Elevated Park (Small-Scale)
2018 – Junction Craft Brewing/PLANT Architect Inc. (Large-Scale)
2018 – Schmaltz Appetizing (Small-Scale)
2017 – ERA Architects (Large-Scale)
2017 – Shannon and Michael Passero (Small-Scale)
2016 – Sweeny and Co. Architects (Large-Scale)
2016 – Mark and Cathy Graham (Small-Scale)
2015 – The London Roundhouse Project (Large-Scale)
2015 – Sharon and Hamoody Hassan (Small-Scale)
2014 – The Don Jail Renovation, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, Toronto
2013 – Jeff Feswick, President, Historia Building Restoration Inc.
2012 – ERA Architects
2009 – Artscape/Ward 21 Councillor Joe Mihevc (on behalf of the City of Toronto), Joe Lobko (project architect) of du Toit Architects Ltd., ERA Architects Inc. (consulting heritage architects)
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Peter Stokes Restoration Award
2022 – 8 King Street East, Toronto (Large-Scale)
2022 – Middle Road Bridge (Small-Scale)
2021 – University College, Toronto (Large-Scale)
2021 – River Bookshop, Amherstburg (Small-Scale)
2020 – Westinghouse HQ, Hamilton (Large-Scale)
2020 – The Paradise Theatre, Toronto (Small-Scale)
2019 – Montgomery’s Inn (Large-Scale)
2019 – The Marshall Block, Fergus (Dale and Lori Clarke) (Small-Scale)
2018 – The New Petrie Building, Tyrcathlen Partners (Large-Scale)
2018 – The Opinicon, owner Fiona McKean (Large-Scale)
2018 – Spire Restoration at Ste. Anne Church, Tecumseh (Small-Scale)
2017 – The Imperial Hotel/Marie Voisin, New Hamburg (Small-Scale)
2016 – Glanmore National Historic Site in Belleville (Large-Scale)
2016 – Canadian Legion Branch 103 (Small-Scale)
2015 – Father Denis Noon and the Diocese of Hamilton (Large-Scale)
2015 – Manuel Stevens, Joan Lipscombe and family (Small-Scale)
2014 – ERA Architects
2013 – Orillia Museum of Art & History
2012 – John and Michèle Harding
2011 – Goldsmith Borgal
2011 – Honourable Mention: Royal St. George’s College Chapel Restoration
2010 – Richard and Anke Lex
2010 – Honourable Mention: Paul McIntyre, Shoalts Brothers Construction, ERA Architects
2008 – The North America Railway Hall of Fame
2007 – Congregation of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Kinkora
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Post-1945 Design Award
(Now the Heritage of the Future Award)
2020 – Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe
2019 – The Two Kings (Barbara Hall, Paul Bedford, Ken Greenberg, Bob Eisenberg, Max Beck, Michael Emory, with the late Jane Jacobs and Gary Stamm)
2017 – Peter Pennington
2015 – Morden Yolles and the late Roland Bergmann
2014 – Raymond Moriyama
2013 – Jerome Markson
2012 – Eberhard Zeidler
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Stephen A. Otto Award for Research and Documentation
(Formerly the Stephen A. Otto Award for Scholarship)
2022 – City of Waterloo Museum + Grand River Rainbow Historical Project + SPECTRUM
2021 – Luke McElcheran
2020 – Dan Schneider
2019 – George Duncan, for Historic Unionville, A Village in the City
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Mary Millard Award for Special Contributions to ACO
2022 – Marlee Robinson
2021 – Margaret Sockett
2020 – Jackie Tinson
2019 – Leslie Thompson
2018 – Stephanie Mah
2017 – Liz Lundell
2016 – Robert Mikel
2015 – Lloyd Alter
2014 – Kayla Jonas-Galvin
2013 – Joan Tooke
2011 – Malcolm Wardman
2010 – Paul Oberman
2009 – Julia Beck
2008 – Nina Chapple
2008 – Margaret Hill
2007 – Jeremy Nicholls, Greg Hancock, Bruce MacNeill and Gail Rayment, ACO Cobourg
2007 – Dan Schneider
2007 – Alan Seymour
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Eric Arthur Lifetime Achievement Award
2022 – Christopher Borgal
2020 – Phillip Carter
2019 – Robert Eisenberg and Michael Cruickshank
2018 – Janet Hunton
2017 – Edwin Rowse
2016 – Robert Hill
2015 – Rollo Myers
2014 – Robert Hulley
2013 – Helen and Gerald Finley, Kingston
2012 – Don Rumgay and the late Joan Rumgay
2011 – Julian Smith
2010 – Bill Greer
2009 – Stephen Otto
2008 – Dr. J. Gordon Nelson, professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo
2007 – Peter John Stokes
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ACO Special Jury Award
2022 – Les Amis Duff-Bâby
2022 – Massey Hall Revitalization
2021 – Alex Grenzebach
2020 – TOBuilt Database
2018 – The tenants of 401 Richmond and Margaret Zeidler