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Henry N. Barkhausen Award
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Joyce S. Hayward Award
for Historic Interpretation
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Association Award
for Historic Preservation
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2015
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No Award This Year
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James Kennard of Fairport, New York has been discovering and exploring
Great Lakes shipwrecks for over 40 years. Over those years, he has been
involved in identifying more than 200 wreck sites.
One of the highlights of
Kennard’s exploration work was the 2008 discovery of the deep water wreck
of the H.M.S. Ontario, one of
the oldest warship wrecks discovered on the Great Lakes. Near the end of
the American Revolution, the ship was lost on Lake Ontario with all hands,
including 30 American prisoners of war, during a storm in the fall of 1780.
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Wayne Lusardi of Alpena,
Mich. has pursued his passion for maritime archaeology for more than 20
years. Since 2002, he has served both as Michigan’s State Maritime
Archaeologist and a member of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
staff. As part of that staff, Lusardi is responsible for research,
documentation, preservation, and management for more than 100 Lake Huron
shipwrecks. He also plays a key role in preserving the hundreds of
shipwreck artifacts found in the state’s collection, many of which are
housed at the sanctuary’s Great Lakes Heritage Center.
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2014
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Walter Lewis of a Grafton, Ont. for a paper entitled “From Sail to Steam
on the Great Lakes during the 19th century.” His paper is both an overview
of previous historical research and a statistical analysis of original
vessel data and records that provides new insight in the region’s
relatively unique transition from sailing ships to steam-powered vessels
during a 60-year period beginning in 1817. Unlike the relatively rapid
transition to steam power in ocean commerce and other inland waterways,
Lewis notes in his paper that “on the Great Lakes, the transition from sail
to steam remained roughly in balance for over half a century” and “the
deployment of steam and sail in consort persisted through the end of the
century, especially into ports and through locks that could not accommodate
the great iron and steel bulk freighters that would once again change the
face of the Lakes fleets beginning in the 1880s.”
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E.B. “Skip” Gillham has shown a dedication to researching Great Lakes maritime
history for over four decades. Gillham’s first came to many people’s notice
in 1970, when he succeeded the late Capt. Geoffrey Hawthorn as author of
the popular “Ships that Ply the Lakes” column in the St. Catharines Standard. The following year, he wrote Ships Along the Seaway, the first
of the more than 60 books on Great Lakes vessels and fleets he has authored
or co-authored since then.
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For over 40
years, Ken Cassavoy has been a
leader in the archaeological study of the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes.
Beginning in 2001, Cassavoy led a team of volunteers that excavated the
remains of what was later determined to be the War of 1812 brig H.M.S.
General Hunter on a Lake Huron beach. Over a ten-year
period, the team recovered a treasure trove of artifacts and helped create
a major exhibit at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre in Southampton,
Ont.
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2013
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Patrick McBriarty of Chicago, Ill. for a paper based on his forthcoming book,
Chicago River Bridges which
looks at the untold story of the development of Chicago’s iconic bridges,
from the first wood footbridge built by a tavern owner in 1832 to the
marvels of steel, concrete, and machinery of today. Those structures would
not have existed if it were not for the importance of Great Lakes shipping
to the development of the city. Over the past seven years, McBriarty has
conducted intensive research into the story of its bridges, and made
extensive use of original source material on the maritime history and
traditions of Chicago.
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Tamara Thomsen is one of the region’s most skilled technical divers with special
expertise in using underwater still and video photography to document deep
water wreck sites. Working with the Wisconsin Historical Society, Thomsen’s
work has resulted in 26 Great Lakes shipwrecks being added to the National
Register of Historic Places.
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Lee
Radzak has served as the manager of the Split
Rock Lighthouse Historic Site since 1982. Because of its cliff-top
location, maintaining the light station’s many historic buildings has been
a continual challenge. To meet that challenge, Radzak has managed three
major restoration projects at the historic site while continuing to keep it
open to over 120,000 visitors per year.
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2012
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Joseph D. Calnan, a teacher and boat builder from Kingston, Ont., is the
first two-time winner of the Barkhausen Award for a paper entitled “The
Pilot of La Salle’s Griffon”
based on new research into 17th century French source materials. Trained in
England, Calnan began his boat building career in a French-speaking yard in
Nova Scotia. In between boatbuilding jobs, he has earned college degrees in
English, native studies and experiential education.
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During a career of almost 30
years, marine artist Peter
Rindlisbacher has become known as one of the finest maritime artists in
the Great Lakes region particularly for documenting and interpreting the
naval history of the region during late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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John
Polacsek, retired curator of the Dossin Great
Lakes Museum, who has lead the Association’s multi-year effort to preserve
and digitize a unique collection of early 19th century source materials
from the Mackinac Custom House Collection of the Detroit Library.
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2011
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Walter Lewis, author and editor of the Maritime History of the Great Lakes web site, for a paper entitled “John Mosier and the Niagara: Joint Stock Associations
and the Transition from Sail to Steam.” The paper is an account of the career
of Capt. John Mosier, his role in the transition from sail to steam on the
Great Lakes following the War of 1812, and how groups of investors, known
as joint stock associations, were used to finance the construction of
steamships on the Great Lakes during the early 19th century.
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Maurice Smith, long-time executive director and now curator emeritus of
the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Ont. which has one of the
largest integrated maritime history collections in Canada.
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Steve
Brisson, deputy director of the Mackinac State
Historic Parks, a unique collection of living history museums and historic
sites, at one of the true crossroads of Great Lakes maritime history.
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2010
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Michael Moir, an archivist at the York University Libraries in Toronto,
for a paper entitled “Harbour Commissioners, Civil Engineers, and the
Large-Scale Manipulation of Nature on Toronto’s Waterfront, 1883-1912.”
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Kenneth Pott, executive director of The Heritage Museum and Cultural
Center in St. Joseph, Mich.
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Ken Merryman, one of the founders of the Great Lakes Shipwreck
Preservation Society
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2009
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LeeAnne Gordon of Harbor Creek, Pa. for a paper entitled “History of the
Schooners Newash and Tecumseth” which examined the history
of two schooners built for the British Navy on the Great Lakes in 1815.
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Ric Mixter, maritime history author and video producer, of Saginaw,
Mich.
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Paul LaMarre III, manager of maritime affairs for the Toledo-Lucas County
Port Authority and manager of the museum ship Willis B. Boyer
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2008
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John E. Ratcliffe for a paper entitled “The Mowat Boat and the Development of
Small Watercraft on the Great Lakes” which examined the history of
double-ended, clinker-built boat constructed by an Ontario fisherman in
1910 and was donated to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston,
Ont.
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Brendon Baillod, maritime history research and author, and president of the
Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association
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Joyce Hayward, long-time head of the Association’s Diver Committee and
founder of the Ohio chapter of Save Ontario Shipwrecks
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2007
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Dr. William Lafferty for a paper that examined the historical record to support
the claim that the freighter Hennepin
was the first self-unloading vessel on the Great Lakes. Lafferty is a
member of Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates which located the
freighter’s deep water wreck site in Lake Michigan in 2006.
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Nancy Schneider, long-time editor of Inland
Seas, the quarterly journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society
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Capt. Walter Rybka, senior captain of the U.S. Brig Niagara and administrator of the Erie Maritime Museum in Erie,
Pa.
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2006
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Thomas J. Lutz for a paper entitled “James Sears Dunham and His Gallant
Fight for the Chicago River: A Brief History of Chicago’s Forgotten
Maritime Man” which looked at the life and times of a leader of Chicago’s
maritime industry in the second half of the 19th century.
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Frederick Stonehouse, maritime historian and author of over 25 books on Great
Lakes maritime history.
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Dr. Charles E. Feltner, one of the founding members of the Detour Reef Lighthouse
Preservation Society
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2005
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Art Chavez for a paper that was detailed examination of the history
and technology of the car ferry sea gate, a safety device designed to keep
water from flooding into the stern of Lake Michigan railroad car ferries
which operated with open sterns from the mid-18th until the
tragic loss of the ferry Pere
Marquette #18 in 1910.
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C. Patrick Labadie, long-time director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Canal Park Museum, and now a researcher and historian for the Thunder Bay
National Marine Sanctuary
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Henry Barkhausen, maritime historian and author, who published his first
book on Great Lakes maritime history in 1948, and was a founding member of
the Association.
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2004
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Kathleen Warnes, a graduate student at the University of Toledo, for a paper
on the life and work of Increase Lapham, a research scientist and advocate
for marine safety on the Great Lakes during the 19th century.
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Ted Friedlander, a major driving force in the Wisconsin Marine Historical
Society and the creation of it’s the Age of Sail on the Great Lakes
1678-1911 database
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Holly Holcombe, director of the Steamship William G. Mather Museum in Cleveland, and founding member of
the Harbor Heritage Society.
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2003
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Kimberly E. Monk for a paper entitled “From Prince to Pauper: Portrait of
the Welland Canal Ship Sligo” which traces the long and varied career
of a canal schooner from its 1860 construction at a shipyard in St.
Catharines, Ont. to its loss off Toronto in 1918.
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John Burke, a trustee emeritus of the Great Lakes Historical Society
who has been involved in the Society’s work for over 30 years.
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Dick Moehl, president of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers
Association and a leader in the efforts to preserve and restore the St.
Helena Lighthouse.
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2002
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Joseph D. Calnan, a teacher and boat builder from Kingston, Ont. for a paper
on Moise Hillaret, the 17th century shipwright for the famed French
explorer LaSalle based on original French documents of the period.
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2001
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Art Amos and Dan Lindsay for paper entitled “The
Discovery of the Schooner St. James”
which documents the archaeological and research work over many years to
identify the remains of a schooner that was lost in Lake Erie in 1870.
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