The Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF) has announced recipients of the 2025 National and Regional Scholarships. 

LACF, a national charitable organization, partners with Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) component associations, universities and other stakeholders to offer awards. LACF is Canada’s leading source of landscape architecture scholarships.

“These awards celebrate the outstanding efforts of our Daniels students: academic achievement, leadership, creative vision and scholarly research,” said Elise Shelley, program director of the Master of Landscape Architecture. “On behalf of the Daniels Faculty, we wholeheartedly congratulate our LACF scholarship recipients for this recognition."

Charlie-Kaida King is a recipient of the three national scholarships: the LACF BC2 Indigenous Scholarship, LACF Peter Jacobs Indigenous Scholarship and the LACF Peter Klynstra Memorial Scholarship. Kai is a status Mi’kmaq person originally from St. John’s Newfoundland. He is now in the second year of the MLA program at the Daniels Faculty, and the first Indigenous MLA student. Previously, Kai earned both a degree in psychology-folklore at Memorial University, and a Bachelor of Technology–Landscape Architecture at Dalhousie. Kai is dedicated to integrating Indigenous Heritage and Traditional Knowledge in landscape architecture and has also stepped up as a class representative within his program. Kai finds inspiration in the Newfoundland landscape and plans to return to Atlantic Canada in practice.

Benjamin Dunn received the regional LACF University of Toronto MLA Scholarship. Benjamin's research, design, and community work have been guided by a simple desire to leave things better than they were before. Studying landscape architecture because it gives him an outlet to do exactly that. The field allows him to weave together his interests in human well-being, environmental design and community engagement into an applied and meaningful vocation. 

Kiana Rezvani Baghae received the regional LACF Maglin/University of Toronto Scholarship. Kiana's undergraduate interests in Environmental Design at OCAD University are now expanded in MLA studies at Daniels. Her courses have taught her the importance of preservation and revitalization of degraded ecologies and ecosystems, in order to develop gradients that can meaningfully connect different environments. To practice landscape architecture today is to navigate a world in urgent need of unity: between people and land, between systems and stories. 

Orly Sacke received the regional LACF/Lemay Scholarship. Growing up in Toronto, Orly has always been captivated by the city as a palimpsest of complicated landscapes: transit expansion overhauls how people move; the conceptual ‘100-year storm’ becomes meaningless given its frequency and intensity. As landscape architects gain momentum as city builders, substantive landscape change and indeterminacy become design opportunities. 

Visit the LCAF scholars page for the full announcements and list of scholars.