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Dean McLellan, Field Director for the Walling association is looking to hire a laborer for the
summer season. Position would be ideal for a university or high school student looking to
gain some experience in the masonry field. Heavy lifting and long hours are involved.
Interested persons can contact Dean via email at hlmasonry@hsfx.ca. A car would be an
asset but is not necessary. Dean is located in the Mount Forest area but works all across
southern Ontario.
The May 17 and 18
Dry Stone Wall Association of Canada
workshops are now fully booked
Registration has been limited to ten students
Please consider the June 14-15 Workshop as an alternative
See listing below
On June 14-15 the DSWAC will run a two-day dry-laid walling workshop, to teach people
the basics of using inexpensive random fieldstone to create a section of traditional free-
standing garden wall.
June 14-15
This will be an outdoor workshop held on a country estate ten minutes north of the 401
near Port
Hope, an hour's drive east of Toronto, Ontario.
No tools are required, just
enthusiasm for working with stone and a simple desire to learn how to build with a natural
stone material that doesn't rot , need painting or fall down after a few years.
Fee for the for two day course - $350. includes instructional literature, coffee, snacks,
lunches, professional hands-on training and all GST .
contact john@dswac.ca
The finished bridge at the DSWAC bridge building workshop at Prince Edward County Ontario Canada July 28- Aug 6th
A great two days was spent learning to build dry stone walls during a crisp (but dry) weekend in November in scenic Beaver Valley Ontario Canada.
Check it out at the bottom of DSWAC 'Events of this past year'.
Other news
During the last half of October 2007, the DSWAC was invited to Glendale Gardens
to help run some more dry stone walling workshops
in British Columbia on Vancouver Island.
These two day workshops were very well attended
and produced some wonderful new stone walls.
Check out the last (bottom) entry in Upcoming 2007 Workshops section on the DSWAC main home page
also
The annual Northumberland Dry Stone Wall Festival was held this canadian Thanksgiving on October 6-8 2007 in Garden Hill Ontario Canada .
check out web site
www.gardenhillacres.com/dswac.htm
To see the exciting events associated with this year's festival which include
The 'Rubble Helix' installation and the 'Sheepshear Garden Feature'
Also
The Canadian Dryscaping Award
The Dry Stone Wall Association of Canada has chosen three people to receive awards to honour outstanding Canadian dry stone workmanship in this year.
Professional dry stone wall
Menno Braam
Dry stone wall or terrace ( built predominately by one non-professional)
John Bingham
Group project ( wall or garden structure built by Canadian wallers of any status)
Lynn Sinclair-Smith
Also
On Saturday and Sunday July 14/15th, the DSWAC hosted it's first ever "blackhouse" construction seminar.
Over the two days students were given an opportunity to help with the building of a completely dry laid structure like the blackhouses of Scotland.
The workshop took place in historic Holstein Ontario, which lies just outside of Mount Forest.
See Prvious Events for how the event went.
Submitted by staff of DSWAC