History student awarded the 2013 Heritage Ottawa Awards Research Grant

Heritage Ottawa has awarded its 2013 Gordon Cullingham Research & Publication Grant of $1000 to Dorothy-Jane Smith, a graduate student in History at Carleton University.

The grant will enable Smith to continue her research on the community mausoleum at Ottawa’s  Beechwood Cemetery, a unique building located in a Canadian National Historic Site.

“Ms Smith’s research on this 1930’s example of the American-Canadian mausoleum building craze provides an important insight in to an under-studied aspect of our local built heritage,’’ said Heritage Ottawa President, Leslie Maitland.

The grant is awarded annually in honour of the late Gordon Cullingham, journalist, broadcaster, editor and heritage activist to encourage research on Ottawa’s built heritage. Ms Smith’s proposal was selected from among six applicants for this year’s grant.

For further information:  David B. Flemming 613-230-8841 or info@heritageottawa.org