CSLA Resource Library

The CSLA believes that by working across environmental and cultural systems, landscape architects are uniquely positioned to engage professions, industries and governments in new alliances better equipped to innovatively address complex social and ecological problems and to fully express the opportunities inherent in principles of equity, sustainability, resiliency and democracy. 

This series of five videos celebrating the history of landscape architecture in Canada was launched in celebration of the CSLA's 90th anniversary.

The Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada is the first-ever pan-Canadian benchmark for heritage conservation practice in this country. It offers results-oriented guidance for sound decision-making when planning for, intervening on and using historic places. This document establishes a consistent, pan-Canadian set of conservation principles and guidelines that will be useful to anyone with an interest in conserving Canada's historic places.

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People UNDRIP was adopted by the general assembly in 2007. In 2021, it was signed into law in Canada through the passage of Bill C-15, which became the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The Act explicitly confirms that the UN Declaration can be used to interpret Canadian laws — Canadian courts have already been using the UN Declaration in exactly this way.