{"id":52482,"date":"2020-12-07T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/?page_id=52482"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:39:28","slug":"trustees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 propos de nous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Canadian TREE Fund cherche des personnes enthousiastes qui comprennent l'importance de la recherche et de l'\u00e9ducation sur les arbres.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nos fiduciaires<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rejoignez-nous ! Vous aurez le sentiment pr\u00e9cieux d'accomplir quelque chose qui contribuera \u00e0 faire conna\u00eetre notre for\u00eat urbaine et \u00e0 promouvoir l'arboriculture. De plus, vous aurez l'occasion de travailler et de vous associer \u00e0 des arboriculteurs parmi les plus performants et les plus avant-gardistes au Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notre \u00e9quipe comprend des arboristes certifi\u00e9s ISA et d'autres passionn\u00e9s des arbres, engag\u00e9s dans leur sant\u00e9 et la recherche. Notre travail comprend la collecte de fonds, l'organisation d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements, l'\u00e9valuation du bien-fond\u00e9 des demandes de subvention et la reconnaissance de nos g\u00e9n\u00e9reux donateurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contactez-nous pour plus d'informations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cathy Bentley<\/strong>
CTF Co-Chair and Grant Coordinator<\/em>
Cathy is an ISA Certified Arborist and a Professional Forester, with her own business for 30+ years. She specializes in tree appraisals and inventories for road widening and expropriation projects. She enjoys golf, fishing and being in the forest, in both BC and Ontario, as well as travelling and seeing trees everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Catherine Dowdell<\/strong>
<\/strong>CTF Co-Chair<\/em>
Catherine Dowdell is an Urban Forestry Technologist with over 20 years in the green industry. She holds a Master\u2019s in Urban Forestry Leadership, is a Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist, ISA Certified Arborist, and Tree Risk Assessor. She\u2019s passionate about integrating the urban forest amidst development and urbanization, and pushing hardiness zones when selecting species for a changing climate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John Wilson<\/strong>
<\/strong>Treasurer<\/em> and Fundraising<\/em>
John is a Forestry Technology graduate of Lakehead University and a Horticulture graduate from University of Guelph. John is a retired ISA Certified Arborist, with a 30+ year career working with Campus Services and Business Operations at York University. Currently, John is a volunteer with Aurora Community Arboretum. He is a passionate golfer, cyclist and tireless tree advocate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kyle Berwick<\/strong>
<\/strong>CTF Trustee – Chapter Liaison<\/em>
Kyle Berwick is an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist, ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualified, Butternut Health Assessor, RPF in training, and graduated magna cum laude from the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture. He spent nine years in the horticulture industry before transitioning into arboriculture and urban forestry in 2013 where he got his start as an Urban Forestry Consultant. He worked in the public sector for eight years before starting Urban Arboretum Inc.<\/a> full time in 2022. In his spare time Kyle enjoys hiking, canoeing, kayaking and backcountry camping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Warren Hoselton<\/strong>
CTF Trustee – Fundraising, Cyclist in Team Canada’s Tour Des Trees<\/em>
Warren is an ISA Certified Arborist and has spent much of his 40-year career with the City of Toronto as the Parks Supervisor on Toronto Island.  He has been on the Tree Fund Board since 2007 and is a 23-year veteran of the Tour des Trees (the world’s largest fundraising event to benefit trees).  Since his recent retirement, he is now able to spend more time with his “Arbor-Ego”, Professor Pricklethorn<\/a>, where his goal is to teach children of all ages about the importance of our urban trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Serena Soucy<\/strong>
CTF Trustee – Communications and Scholarships<\/em>
Serena is an ISA Certified Arborist who has experience working in private tree care, consulting and the municipal sector. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Conservation from the University of British Columbia and studied Arboriculture at Humber College. Serena loves sharing her passion about trees and their unique qualities with anyone who will listen and can often be found reading or sewing in her spare time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Simon Ouimet<\/strong>
<\/strong>CTF Trustee<\/em>
Simon Ouimet is an certified ISA arborist with over 17 years of experience in tree care, climbing, and production work. He has a passion for tree care and environmental stewardship and holds a DEP in Arboriculture and Tree Work from the Horticultural Centre of Laval. Simon has been actively involved in the Board of Directors of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 internationale d’arboriculture – Quebec (SIAQ) since 2021 and also contributes as a board member of the Horticultural Mutual Prevention CNESST Telus Sant\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maureen Sexsmith-West<\/strong>
CTF Trustee<\/em>
Maureen found her way to tree care through horticulture and has worked in the industry since 1996. She holds her ISA Certified Arborist and Tree Risk Assessment Qualification. Maureen ownes and runs Ladybug Arborists in Airdrie, Alberta, offering tree care, consulting and horticultural services, as well as public education programs and one-on-one training for a wide range of clients. A passionate volunteer, she serves as a Communities in Bloom judge and represents the Prairie Chapter with the Canadian TREE Fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Entrer en contact<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

171 Bella Vista Trail
Alliston ON
L9R 2G7
Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

info@canadiantreefund.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Canadian TREE Fund is looking for enthusiastic individuals who understand the importance of tree research and education. Our Trustees Come and join us! The rewards include a priceless sense of accomplishment that comes with knowing you are doing something that will help raise awareness of our urban forest and elevate and escalate the evolution […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53551,"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52482\/revisions\/53551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiantreefund.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}