Newly planted trees now stand as a symbol of peace in Markham. On Saturday, the city hosted a park dedication ceremony to mark 100 years since the Armenian genocide. Federal, provincial and municipal government officials and members of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee for Canada waited in anticipation as the Forest of Hope was unveiled. …
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Ottawa – May 30th, 2016 – Today, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) announced that Hamilton’s Gage Park was selected as the recipient of the inaugural CSLA Legacy Project Award (2016). According to Fred Eisenberger, Mayor of the City of Hamilton: “To be the inaugural recipient of the CSLA Legacy Project Award is a …
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One by one, carnations were carefully placed at its base. The act was a showing of respect and moment of reflection for the some 200 people who attended the unveiling of the Armenian Genocide Memorial in St. Catharines Saturday, April 30, 2016. The monument, which stands in front of the Armenian Community Centre on Martindale …
In 2016, the Township of Wilmot will be undertaking a multi-purpose trail construction project within the woodlot surrounding the Wilmot Recreation Complex. These lands are being called Schmidt Woods named after Harold and Enid Schmidt whose estate donated a significant portion of the woodlot to the Township in 2015. Approximately 2.0km of compacted stone dust …
Media release from the Office of the Mayor Burlington, Ont., April 7, 2016 – The members of Mayor Rick Goldring’s Millennial Advisory Committee have been selected. The committee will develop initiatives focused on how to keep and attract residents aged 18 to 35 in Burlington. It will also concentrate on creating opportunities to engage millennials with …
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STAYING AHEAD OF THE LEARNING CURVE, is essential to growing your business, so Belgard University is offering you an opportunity with Haig Seferian to expand your hardscape knowledge. HAIG SEFERIAN OALA, CSLA, FASLA, LO, CLD, has been extremely active in the landscape industry’s many associations and is the founding member of the Certified Landscape Designer …
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Haig was the Keynote speaker at this year’s Outdoor Living Conference in associate with SOFA Sometimes in life we are lucky enough to come across exceptional individualswho truly inspire us. This inspiration could take on many forms (business, relationships. Moral teachings, etc.), but what is true about all these figures is one very basic, but …
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January 16, 2016, by Audriana VanderWerf, Landscape Trades An interview with Haig Seferian, principal of Seferian Design Group in Burlington, Ontario and a leading champion from establishing and promoting meaningful credentials for landscape designers. It was the mid 1980s, and young Haig Seferian sat alone on a park bench in California. While studying landscape architecture …
On December 19th, 2015, the Armenian Community in Markham, led by Frank Scarpitti, broke ground on a project that was over two years in the making. The Armenian Genocide Memorial Forest will be located in Ashton Meadows Park on the northeast corner of Woodbine Avenue and Calvert Road, just north of 16th Avenue in the …
Seferian Design Group received a Landscape Ontario Awards of Excellence for their work on the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board Outdoor Kindergarten Childcare Renovations. The annual competition features more than 40 categories of entries judged by a panel of respected horticulture industry experts. Only those entries deemed truly excellent are honoured with awards. The Dufferin-Peel …
