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2008 ROBERT J. BOYER AWARD
Liz Lundell
Liz was a recipient of the Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto and,
in 2005, was Volunteer of the Year recipient for the Township of
Muskoka Lakes.
Seven of her nine published books focus on Muskoka and Algonquin
Park. She enjoys wide readership of her articles in
Beyond the City Magazine,
the
Bracebridge Examiner
and
Weekender
for which she has written regularly since 2004. She has also written
for
Focus on Muskoka,
Muskoka Magazine,
The Muskoka Sun, The Muskokan,
the
Muskoka Lakes Association Yearbook,
Cottage Life Magazine,
The Globe and Mail, Harrowsmith,
and
Muskoka Life.
Her television and radio experience includes various CBC interviews
over the years, as well as interviews with CITY Pulse (Breakfast
Television), Cottage Life Television, Light FM, CKWR, the Moose FM,
and MORE FM.
Her teaching career includes the Toronto District School Board
(TDSB), the York Region Board of Education and a year as a professor
of English and Business Communication at Seneca College. She has
lectured widely in Toronto and Muskoka including to the TDSB,
Heritage Toronto, Wilderness Canoe Symposium, the Toronto Public
Library, the Toronto Camera Club, the Muskoka Lakes Museum, the
Muskoka Steamship and Historical Society, the Canadian Association
of Professional Heritage Consultants, Probus Club of South Muskoka,
the Muskoka Heritage Centre, the Minett Seniors and at a Muskoka
Heritage Foundation Workshop. She has acted as a publishing and
communications advisor to many organizations in Muskoka and has
written web-based content for various businesses and local
organizations.
For her ongoing and longstanding contribution to the culture and
heritage of Muskoka, Liz is indeed a worthy recipient of the Robert
Boyer Award.
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Liz Lundell is widely known in Muskoka as a freelance writer,
historian, former teacher, author, journalist, broadcaster and
mother. A heritage preservation activist, she was founding president
of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario's Muskoka Branch and is
now its Past President. She is Chair of the Muskoka Lakes Museum
board, a director of the Friends of Algonquin Park and chair of
their Publications Committee and is incoming president of the Leaside Skating Club.