Thursday June 4, 2026
| 8 am - 8 pm | Registration (Room: Nova Scotia Foyer) |
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| 9 am - 12 pm | Leadership Group Meeting (*by invitation only) (Room: Halifax A) |
| 12 pm - 5 pm | TOUR: Wolfville Bus Tour (Includes wine tasting and an education session) |
12 pm - 1:30 pm | TOUR: Halifax Harbour Boat Tour |
| 12 pm - 2:30 pm | TOUR: Peggy's Cove Bus Tour |
| 1 pm - 2:30 pm | TOUR: Cogswell & Halifax Waterfront Walking Tour TOUR: Spring Garden District Walking Tour |
| 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm | The Path Indigenous Training (Room: Halifax B) Indigenous Cultural Awareness Kitchen Table Discussion Join NVision's Jennifer David for an overview of Indigenous cultural awareness that meets the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action for Education "on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal–Crown relations." Jennifer will provide highlights from NVision's seminal online course The Path: Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada. As a special offer for this congress only, all participants who attend this session will be eligible to receive a voucher to take the full The Path: Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada Online Training Course (a $195 value). |
| 5 pm - 7 pm | CSLA, APALA and LACF Presidents' Welcome Reception (Room: Nova Scotia Foyer) |
7:15 pm - 9 pm | CSLA-APALA Student & Fellow Mixer (Brackish Studios, Unit PB401, 1869 Upper Water Street, Halifax (next door to the reception location)) Are you a student, intern, associate or a Fellow attending the Congress? If so, you are invited to attend the CSLA-APALA Student & Fellow Mixer to network, learn about the CSLA's informal mentorship program called 'KEEP', and discuss making the leap into practice. |
| 7:30 pm - 11 pm | Oakhill Summer Kick-off Party. Where: Lot 6 Bar and Restaurant (1685 Argyle Street, Halifax) RSVP to greenroof@zinco.ca or admin@oakhilloutdoor.ca |
Friday June 5, 2026
| All Day | Registration (Room: Nova Scotia Foyer) |
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| 8 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
| 8:30 am - 9 am | Official Opening and Welcome (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
9 am - 10 am | Keynote Speaker: Tony Spencer (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
| 10 am - 11 am | Trade Show Opens/Coffee Break (Room: Nova Scotia AB) |
| 11 am - 12 pm | Relational Urbanism: A Framework for Sustainable Urban Habitat, Sonja Vangjeli, LACF's Allsopp Fellow. This research was funded by LACF. (Room: Halifax A) Showdown at the Gunpowder Magazine: Landscape architects clash over heritage, ecology, and aesthetics in Montreal’s oldest park, Mathieu Casavant (Room: Halifax B) plazaPOPS: Research-Driven Design at the Threshold of Practice and Advocacy, Brendan Stewart (Room: Halifax C) |
| 12 pm - 1:15 pm | Trade Show Visits/Lunch (Room: Nova Scotia AB) |
| 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm | The North, The Land, The Snow Goose: An Interpretive Framework for Goose Creek & Wapusk National Park, Emma Dicks (Room: Halifax A) Understanding Stanley Park: A Comprehensive Framework for Change, Emily Dunlop and Cha'an Dtut (Rena Soutar) (Room: Halifax B) |
| 1:15 pm - 3 pm | landADAPT Workshop (Room: Halifax C) This session will provide an opportunity to assess landADAPT's overall impact on strengthening professional capacity to address climate adaptation. Participants will be invited to reflect on what worked well, where challenges emerged, and how the program has influenced practice, partnerships, and advocacy. |
| 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm | Panel: From Claude Cormier + Associés to CCxA: a Story about the Generational Transition of a Legacy Practice, Sophie Beaudoin, Marc Hallé, Yannick Roberge, Guillaume Paradis (Room: Nova Scotia CD) More-than: Reciprocity, Tiffany Adair, Ashley Elias, Cindy Go (Room: Halifax A) Repositioning Parks to Increase Diversity: Nature, People, and Place, Scott Jordan (Room: Halifax B) |
| 3:30 pm - 5 pm | TOUR: Halifax Harbour Boat Tour TOUR: Point Pleasant Park Bike Tour TOUR: Africville Park & Museum Walking Tour |
| 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm | TOUR: Dartmouth Waterfront Trail Walking Tour |
| 5 pm - 7 pm | Trade Show Cocktail (Room: Nova Scotia AB) |
Saturday June 6, 2026
| All day | Registration (Room: Nova Scotia Foyer) |
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8:30 am - 9:15 am | Breakfast (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
| 9:15 am - 9:30 am | Welcome (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Keynote Speaker: David Godshall (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
| 10:30 am - 11 am | Coffee Break (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
| 11 am - 12 pm | Rethinking Resilience at Grand Bay West, Rachael Fitkowski (Room: Halifax A) Dynamic Shorelines - Designing Resilience and Planning Change at Biidaasige and Toronto Island Parks, Shannon Baker, Netami Stuart (Room: Halifax B) Planting Over Transit and Infrastructure: What We Learned, Patricia Lussier (Room: Halifax C) |
| 12 pm - 1 pm | Lunch (Room: Nova Scotia CD) |
| 1 pm - 2 pm | Panel: Restoring Relations: Bridging Practice, Academia, and Indigenous S Transdisciplinary and Nature-based Approaches to Urban Coastal Adaptation: Imagine West End Waterfront Vision Plan, Nastaran Moradinejad. This session is supported by landADAPT (Room: Halifax A) Out of Bounds, Michelle Jeffrey Delk (Room: Halifax B) Living Legacies, Terence Radford (Room: Halifax C) |
| 2 pm - 3 pm | Designi Making the Case: Landscape Architects as Infrastructure Leaders in Canada, Emily Bowerman, Mélanie Glorieux, Sonja Vangjeli, and Amy René (Room: Halifax B) Redefining the Blurred Olmsted Legacy in Canada, Nancy Pollock-Ellwand (Room: Halifax C) |
| 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | TOUR: Fort Needham Park Walking Tour TOUR: Cogswell & Halifax Waterfront Walking Tour TOUR: Halifax Common Walking Tour TOUR: Downtown Complete Streets (Argyle, Brunswick) Walking Tour |
| 5 pm - 6 pm | College of Fellows Investiture Ceremony (Room: Halifax ABC) |
| 6 pm - 7 pm | Cocktail Reception (Room: Halifax Foyer) |
| 7 pm onwards | Awards Gala (Room: Halifax ABC) |

