Hi AAO Members!
When I chose April 2nd as the deadline for registrations to the "Buried
Treasure" Conference I forgot that it was Good Friday. Therefore, please
forward your registrations to me as soon as possible so that I can ensure
that there are enough muffins in the morning, and enough lunches at noon.
The day is shaping up to be a very exciting symposium, taking all attendees
through the benefits of both donating and receiving cultural properties as
well as the mechanics of how to process applications for the Canadian
Cultural Properties Export Review Board. As well, we will hear from expert
textual, book and artifact appraisers who will tell us how evaluations of
"fair market value" are derived.
For the Archivists in the audience, you will hear how one company was able
to put "real" dollars on the value of its records management program.
Hudson's Bay Company has shown that corporate records can be worth millions
of dollars. The HBC example is a great way to show your company that
Archives are more than some nice old documents. The Federal Government
encourages the preservation of Canadian history, and corporate history has
considerable value for historians, journalists and other members of the
business community. Archivists working for Canadian companies should
consider how an income tax reduction would improve the profile of his/her
program.
I look forward to seeing you at the "Buried Treasure" symposium on April
6th. Please register early.
Brenda Hobbs
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Subject: Buried Treasure
This has been forwarded on behalf of Karen Teeple, Manager Archival
Services, City of Toronto Archives
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Buried Treasure - Corporations & Designated Institutions Working
Together To Preserve Canadian History
A full day is being devoted to the topic of donating and receiving
Cultural Properties or Charitable Tax Credits for private
collections
of records and artifacts that have "outstanding national
significance".
In a recent landmark case (1994), Hudson's Bay Company donated the
majority of its records and artifacts to the Province of Manitoba in
exchange for income tax reductions. The total collection was
appraised at over $68 million and resulted in approximately $28
million in income tax reductions. This credit was in turn used to
create the Hudson's Bay History Foundation and the Hudson's Bay
Charitable Foundation - a double plus for the Canadian people.
Other private individuals, politicians and corporations have donated
their archival records to designated institutions such as the
University of Toronto Archives, The National Archives of Canada, The
Archives of Ontario, and The City of Toronto Archives and have
received tax receipts.
The Archives Association Of Ontario (AAO) and the Association of
Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)Toronto Chapter, are
co-sponsoring a full day devoted to donating, appraising, acquiring
and preserving the valuable records that document Canadian history.
The sessions will include such topics as fair market value
determination, appraisal rationale as well as the process for
certifying cultural property.
This conference, in recognition of International Records Management
Day and Archives Awareness Day will be held on Tuesday, April 6th,
1999.
Does your organization have valuable records/artifacts that document
the history of Canada, and are in jeopardy of being lost forever
because of lack of funding to protect them? This is your
opportunity
to meet and hear various professionals who are currently working in
both the archival and appraisal fields.
LOCATION: The Bay, 401 Bay Street at Queen Street West,
The Arcadian Court, 8th Floor, Toronto
COST: AAO and ARMA Members $80.25 incl GST (Lunch
included)
Non-members $107.00 incl. GST (Lunch included)
CONTACTS: AAO - Karen Teeple, The City of Toronto Archives (416)
397-7393
ARMA - Brenda Hobbs, Hudson's Bay Company (416) 861-4148
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"FAX BACK" REGISTRATION FORM
Name:
Company:
Phone:
Fax:
FAX THIS FORM TO: BRENDA HOBBS (416) 861-6688
Registration Deadline - April 2, 1999
Payment by CASH or CHEQUE, at the door only, prior to admission to
the
event
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Below is the agenda for the day
THE ARCHIVES ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO and the TORONTO CHAPTER
OF
THE ASSOCIATION OF RECORDS MANAGERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
Buried Treasure - Corporations & Designated Institutions Working
Together to Preserve Canadian History
April 6, 1999
Agenda
8:30 am Registration and coffee
9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcoming remarks
Brenda Hobbs, Manager, Records & Historical
Information Hudson's Bay Company
9:15 am - 9:30 am Corporate Benefits from donating archival
records
Speaker: Brian C. Grose, former Vice
President and Corporate
Secretary, Hudson's Bay Company
9:30 am - 10:30 am Caring for one of Canada's most valuable
archival collections
Chair: Brenda Hobbs
Speaker: Judith Hudson Beattie, Keeper,
Hudson's Bay Company Archives,
Provincial Archives of Manitoba
10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am - Noon The Appraisal Process and Determining Fair
Market Value
Chair: Karen Teeple, Manager, Archival
Services, City of Toronto Archives
Speakers: Prof. Elwood Jones, Ontario Chair,
N.A.A.B.
Edith Yeomans, Appraisal Associates
Third speaker to be confirmed
Noon - 1:15 pm LUNCH - In the Arcadian Court Dining Room
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm Determining Cultural Property and the
Assignment of Income Tax Receipts
Chair: Karen Teeple
Speaker: Sonia Lismer, Assistant Secretary,
Canadian Cultural Properties Export Review
Board
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Acquiring Cultural Properties/Charitable
donations
Chair: Marc Lerman, President, Archives
Association of Ontario
Speakers: Ian Wilson, Archivist of Ontario
Richard Landon, Director, The Thomas Fisher
Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Wrap-up Session
Speaker: Kent Haworth, University Archivist,
York University
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