About Me

I have considerable experience in the museum and heritage fields. My various positions with Provincial Historic Sites have provided me the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills which includes frontline program delivery, program development, built heritage asset management, artifact handling, artifact and program-specific research, exhibit development, and collaboration with numerous museum and heritage partners.

I have further honed my skills through various interpretive groups I have founded for the purpose of collaborating with Parks Canada and other heritage and educational organizations. Through these groups, I have developed and delivered a wide range of interpretive programs to diverse audiences, in varying learning environments. These programs have included the use of 1st and 3rd person interpretation, object-rich exhibits, choreographed historic weapons performances, historic firearms demonstrations, public lectures, educational presentations, and theatrical presentations.

As a founding member of the Vinland Seawolves, I developed a Norse combat program and trained combatants to provide public demonstrations for several events related to the Norse in Newfoundland. We provided programs for Norstead; a reconstructed Norse settlement in L’Anse Aux Meadows Newfoundland, and for a Destination Saga Lands conference. In recent years I have been invited on several occasions to facilitate discussions on Norse combat and martial material culture for a Norse archaeology course offered at Memorial University of Newfoundland. As a result of the success of our combat program, we were invited by The Rooms Provincial Museum to develop a temporary exhibit highlighting Norse daily life. We reconstructed the interior of a Norse house, through which visitors were able to gain a unique understanding of social customs and division of labour inside the Norse home circa 1000 AD.

In 2013 I founded the interpretive display group For King & Empire and developed and managed a team of carefully selected researchers and interpreters. In our frequent work with Parks Canada, we detailed the life of a Newfoundland soldier in the First World War. The immersive experiences we produced focused on the training regime for soldiers and relied heavily on the material culture of the time. We developed and ran interactive programs for the visiting public including reproduction and staging of barracks in St. John’s, Newfoundland and a frontline trench in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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