Heritage Now

Climate Action, Social Resilience, and Economic Transformation

Monday, January 19, 2026 at 7pm

Please join us on Zoom for this informative presentation by Chris Wiebe, Manager, Heritage Policy & National Conference | National Trust for Canada.  Registration is required. Email us at contact@frontenacheritage.ca to register. The Zoom link will be sent after registration. 

Chris Wiebe (Manager, Heritage Policy & National Conference | National Trust for Canada)

Since joining the National Trust for Canada in 2006, Chris Wiebe has been the organizer of the annual National Trust Conference (with the Indigenous Heritage Circle & Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals) and has helped it become Canada’s leading forum for professionals, practitioners, advocates, and volunteers working to save and revitalize heritage places. In addition, he assists with the National Trust’s government relations, advocacy work, development of positions on heritage policies, coordinates the National Roundtable on Heritage Education, and assists with the international Climate Heritage Network. In recent years, he has led the development of reports unpacking building reuse as climate action and the systemic barriers holding it back in Canada, including Making Reuse the New Normal: Accelerating the Reuse and Retrofit of Canada’s Built Environment.

Chris holds Master of Arts degrees from Carleton University (Canadian Studies, Heritage Conservation) and the University of Alberta (English) and has written on heritage and culture for magazines like Policy Options, Canadian Geographic, and Municipal World. Chris has been an instructor in the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria since 2012 and writes a monthly column on local heritage places for his Ottawa neighbourhood newspaper.