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Henry N. Barkhausen
Award
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Joyce S. Hayward Award
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Award for Historic Preservation
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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 Merry, 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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First Awarded
in 2003
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First Awarded in
2003
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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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