page_title: Christina Cameron
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Christina Cameron / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sussex Drive façade of the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Olympic medals are depicted on the building as the Royal Canadian Mint crafted the medals for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
context_page_description: Christina Cameron CM FRSC, also known as Christina Southam, is a Canadian scientific writer, a former public servant and, from 2005 to 2012, a professor of architectural heritage. In 1990, she was named Head of the Canadian delegation of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, a post she held until 2008.
  Born in Toronto, Ontario, Cameron has been awarded the prestigious Public Service Outstanding Achievement Award, inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada, was the 2014 recipient of Heritage Canada's Gabrielle Léger Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2015. One of her former superiors, a chief executive officer of Parks Canada, said that she was "unquestionably the great lady of Canada's cultural heritage."
context_section_description: Christina Cameron has studied literature, art history and museum studies. She holds a B.A. in literature from the University of Toronto, a Master's degree from Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, 1970) and a Ph.D. in architecture history from Laval University (Québec City, 1983).
  In 1969 Cameron joined her husband (by the name of Southam) in Québec City where she was hired by Parks Canada to make an inventory of the city's historic buildings. Her five-year assignment fuelled her passion for architectural heritage.
  Since the 1970s, Cameron has written documents and books on Canadian architecture, heritage management and world heritage. She has served on the grants committee of the Getty Conservation Institute and has been involved in an international values-based heritage management project sponsored by the Institute.
  Cameron held a senior civil servant position for Heritage Canada in the 1990s, when she enforced conservation policies. Cameron held the position of Director General of National Historic Sites and Secretary of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. She worked for 35 years on behalf of the Canadian Public Service.
  In 1990 Cameron was appointed Head of the Canadian Delegation to the World Heritage Committee, a position she held until 2008. She was appointed president of the delegation in 1990 and 2008.
  In 2007 Cameron was appointed Chair of the World Heritage Committee.
  In 2008 she received the Government of Canada's Outstanding Achievement Award, the "highest honor of excellence in the federal public service".
  In 2012 Cameron held the Canada Research Chair in Architectural Heritage at the University of Montreal's School of Architecture. She was also vice-president of the Canadian Commission of UNESCO.
caption: Christina Cameron, as Heritage Canada's Heritage Policy Officer, objected to the Royal Canadian Mint's refurbishments of the 1990s which contravened the historical character of the edifice.
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