| Pleasance Crawford | |||
| Pleasance Kaufman Crawford is a Toronto-based landscape-design historian with a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from Oberlin College and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto. Now retired from professional practice, she was for over 25 years an independent consultant specializing in research, documentation, and assessment of Canadian cultural landscapes, often as a member of a multidisciplinary team of heritage professionals. Her interest in Canadian landscape and garden history has led to numerous publications including an anthology, co-edited with Edwinna von Baeyer, entitled Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing (Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1995; Vintage Canada, 1997). Pleasance is an honorary member of the the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects. She has served on the boards of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants, and the Friends of the Archives of Ontario. She currently helps maintain and document the slide collection of the Toronto Field Naturalists. Also an enthusiastic shapenote singer, Pleasance is a co-founder of the Central Ontario All-Day Sacred Harp Singing, which has taken place each summer since 2004. In addition to a list of Pleasance's publications, this site provides links to the following unpublished documents that may interest fellow landscape design historians. Pleasance's "A Nominal
Index for
Linda M. LeGeyt's Changing
the
Face of Canada: Profiles of Landscape Architects, Volume One
(Ottawa:
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, 1997)" Her transcription of an
article describing Toronto's early burial grounds, entitled "The Cemeteries," The Globe
(Toronto), 1868, p. 1, c. 4. |
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