What Does My Neighbour Do?
Tuesday, 10:30-11:30
November 12
Facilitator: Benita Goldin
Location: Victoria Hall, Club Room
Cost: FREE (Must be a Contactivity Member)
In this series, we feature Westmounters with interesting careers (current or former) who have made a contribution to society. Learn something new and interesting about your neighbours.
Peter Jacobs
Landscape Architect,
Professor-Emeritus Université de Montréal
Peter Jacobs is a Canadian landscape architect
specializing in the conservation and development of
rural and northern landscapes and in urban landscape design. He is Professor- Emeritus of the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture of the Université de Montréal, past Chair of the Commission on Environmental Planning of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), past President of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA), Chair of the Kativik Environmental Quality Commission (from 1979) and a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. He is also on the Board of Directors of Westmount's Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue.