Government Showcase
Date/Time: Monday, November 3 | (1:30 – 2:30 pm)
Location: Embassy Room
Heritage Resources in Manitoba are very diversified. From archaeological sites to designated buildings, to vestiges of natural landscapes, culturally modified landscapes, historical era sites, fossil specimens, and even historical mining infrastructure, the definition of Heritage Resources is broad.
The purpose of this session is to introduce conference delegates to the Manitoba Historic Resources Branch Archaeological Assessment Services Unit, heritage resources, heritage screenings, and heritage resource impact assessments and protection plans as part of program management strategies
Speakers
Perry Blomquist, Impact Assessment Archaeologist
Perry Blomquist M.A., has been working with Manitoba’s Historic Resources Branch since 2008, first as an Aboriginal Liaison Officer and later as an Impact Assessment Archaeologist.
Perry completed his graduate thesis at the University of Saskatchewan where he studied the Reindeer Lake pictographs as well as other Rock Art Traditions throughout Canada. He is a member of the Sîkîp Sâkahikan (Waterhen Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan) and has spent nearly thirty years working in both the private and public sectors as an archaeologist, including for the energy sector, for the RCMP and for the Province of Manitoba. Under the latter, he led archaeological investigations at David Thompson’s fur trade post on Sipiwesk Lake in Northern Manitoba and most recently supported the Humanitarian Search of the Prairie Green Landfill.
Suyoko Tsukamoto, Senior Impact Assessment Archaeologist MB Government Historic Resources Branch
Suyoko Tsukamoto, M.A., is Manitoba’s Senior Impact Assessment Archaeologist with the Historic Resources Branch. She completed her graduate work in bioanthropology at Simon Fraser University and has spent nearly thirty years working as an archaeologist in academic and public sector settings.
Her areas of interest are in forensic anthropology and conflict archaeology, where, in her past life, she directed field schools at a WWII German Prisoner of War Camp in Riding Mountain National Park and at Camp Hughes National Historic Site near Carberry, Manitoba. Since 2016, she has been working with the province as part of HRB’s Archeological Assessment Services Unit supporting communities, police, and the province with her bioanthropological and forensic experience.
Chair: Tafa Kennedy
Dr. Tafa Kennedy is the Director of Manitoba Geological Survey, with over 20 years’ experience in the exploration and mining industry, in South Africa, Tanzania, Quebec and Ontario. Tafa obtained her B.Sc from Rhodes University, M.Sc from Pretoria University and Ph.D. from the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi.
She has worked as a Nickel and PGE deposit geologist in Raglan and Kabanga for Xstrata Nickel and as a consultant geologist in Quebec, roaming in and around the Abitibi greenstone belt dealing with gold and base metal deposits. After a time in the industry, her call to the public service began in 2017 with the Resident Geologist Program and the Mining Lands Division in Ontario.