Paid Post-graduate Interns at CCI — 2010
Emily Lin
I completed an undergraduate degree in History at Tunghai University in Taiwan in 1998, and a Diploma in Collections Conservation and Management at Fleming College in Peterborough, Ontario in 2002. During my Diploma program, I spent a summer with Parks Canada assisting the conservator looking after Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site in Dawson City, Yukon.
After graduating from Fleming, I worked at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec for 4 years. I left the museum in 2006 to begin graduate studies in conservation at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. As part of my curriculum, I interned at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California (working on a group of deteriorating Ancient Egyptian limestone sculptures) and in the Organics Conservation Section at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom. I graduated from Queen’s with a Master of Art Conservation in 2008.
In 2009, I went to Antarctica with the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, working on the conservation of the objects associated with Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition Base.
I am honoured to be working in CCI’s Objects Lab alongside leaders in the conservation community. During my internship, I will be assisting with the following treatments:
- a British infantry officer’s sword with a gilded brass guard and a shark skin-wrapped grip
- two pairs of Cree beaded moccasins and a beaded pouch
- a drafting kit with a shagreen-covered wooden case made by W.S. Jones (one of the most successful scientific instrument makers in London during the late 18th and early 19th centuries), which was used by the draftsmen at Fort William (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
