SELECTED WORK
Stories shaped through listening, place,
and lived experience
My work begins with listening.
Over 100 long-form interviews and oral histories have shaped the way I build stories — grounded in place, memory, and lived experience.
Through conversation, research, and collaboration, I develop films, articles, and public storytelling platforms that carry stories from lived experience into the world.
Many of my projects begin with a single conversation.
Over the past several years, I’ve conducted more than 100 long-form oral history interviews — many over 1–2 hours — documenting lived experience across Indigenous communities and immigrant stories in Mississauga.
These conversations are shaped into narrative articles, films, and public storytelling platforms that preserve voice, context, and cultural knowledge.
Oral Histories
A major oral history initiative documenting Indigenous stories connected to the land now known as Mississauga.
The project includes 25 recorded oral histories, narrative articles, and documentary films, developed in collaboration with community members and supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Through interviews, writing, and film, the work centres lived experience, cultural knowledge, and community voice — contributing to a growing public record of Indigenous presence and history in the region.
Role: Oral history interviewer, narrative writer, documentary storyteller
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Documenting Lives, Communities, and Place
Voices of the Land Series:
Preserving Indigenous Stories of Mississauga
Stories of Arrival —
Migration, Identity, and Place
A growing body of oral histories documenting migration, identity, and the experience of building a life in Mississauga.
Developed through more than 80 interviews conducted during the pandemic, this work captures how lives are shaped over time — through work, family, culture, and everyday decisions about how to move forward while staying connected to where you come from.
Select stories have been developed into narrative articles and short documentary films, with the archive continuing to evolve.
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A selection of films shaped through conversation, place, and process.
Many of these works are developed from oral history interviews and exist as part of larger narrative groupings — where individual stories connect to broader themes of migration, memory, land, and lived experience.
Documentary Films
Small Arms Limited — Stories from the
Factory Floor
A series documenting former workers from the Small Arms plant, capturing memory, labour, and wartime experience through oral history and film.
These works bring together interviews, archival material, and place-based storytelling to preserve an important chapter of Mississauga’s industrial history.
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A group of place-based films exploring the layered histories of Mississauga, from deep Indigenous presence to modern suburban development.
These works connect land, memory, and storytelling — offering a broader view of how place is shaped over time.
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Mississauga — Place, Memory, and Landscape
Stories Shaped Through Conversation and Place
A short documentary portrait of Métis artist Sidney Gendron, whose work with fallen trees reflects a lifelong relationship to land, material, and making.
Developed from a long-form oral history interview, the film follows his process in the sawmill — where listening to wood, memory, and place shapes both the work and the story.
The filmmaking approach mirrors the subject, allowing gesture, rhythm, and environment to carry meaning.
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The Man Who Listens to the Trees — Sidney Gendron
I also collaborate with experts and organizations to translate complex knowledge into clear, structured narratives.
This work draws on the same foundation as my oral history practice — listening carefully, identifying what matters, and shaping it into stories that can be understood, shared, and acted on.
Thought Leadership
Ed Rempel - Thought Leadership Platform
Content strategy and storytelling for one of Canada’s leading financial planning blogs.
Through long-form articles, video concepts, and structured content, complex financial ideas are translated into narratives that are clear, engaging, and widely read.
Narrative & Content Strategy
Storytelling takes many forms: film, conversation, writing, and collaboration.
At the centre of my work is the same practice — listening carefully, and shaping stories so they can be understood, shared, and carried into the world beyond the moment they were told.
This approach allows stories to move — from conversation, to narrative, to public life.
Approach
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