Glendon T•••

About

On the record

Experienced Service Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the museums and institutions industry. Skilled in Databases, Management, Art History, Social Media, and Public Speaking. Strong support professional with a Master of Arts (M.A.) focused in US History from University of New Brunswick. From citation, 2020 AHNB Founders Award: Bruce T••• has demonstrated amazing dedication to preserving and sharing our province’s heritage and history, particularly Queens County’s. He started working for Queens County Heritage (QCH) as a summer student in 1987, learning the rules of caring for collections and the role of greeting and hosting the public at Tilley House. After obtaining Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in history he went on to build a career in museums and is currently employed at the New Brunswick Museum. He is a respected professional and very generous in sharing his expertise. He has performed demonstrations around the province, has made presentations at the AHNB annual conference and developed and hosted webinars in the AHNB series from digitization to collections management to exhibitions. He has served on the Board of AHNB and enthusiastically welcomed members to the Queens County “heritage hub” at their 2018 conference. Most outstanding, however, is Bruce’s work for QCH for over three decades. He has served as a staff member of Queens County Heritage, Board member, serving as Treasurer and currently President since 2007. He is a committed volunteer, a patient teacher, a historian deeply rooted in the Queens County community, an inclusive leader, and jack of all trades. He takes QCH’s mandate to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of the County exceedingly seriously but with a kind sense of humour and continuously brings to bear his high standards of museum professionalism. He brings an experienced hand to grant-writing for exhibitions, as well as collection improvement and student employment applications. His encyclopedia knowledge of the QCH collection guide the exhibition committee in curating summer exhibitions that highlight items in the collection. He produces articles, heritage snippets and social media content, and is creative in looking for ways to expand fundraising – to date having his hand in raising over $1.3 million for the cause. QCH has extended its footprint in Queens County over the years and Bruce has been instrumental in extensive research on all of these historic structures and is still uncovering information that is giving us a better glimpse into Queens County and NB history.