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Heritage BC Awards

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The Heritage BC Awards celebrate outstanding achievements and best practices that have impacted and strengthened all forms of heritage as a valued cultural resource.

They recognize the achievements of individuals, organizations, groups, businesses, and local and regional governments in communities across BC.

» Award Categories

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» Information for Nominators

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2024 Award Recipients


Award Categories

Conservation

Conservation: Recognizing best practices in the preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic places.

Small but Mighty Conservation Award: Recognizing heritage conservation in communities and organizations whose perseverance and dedication more than compensate for small budgets and few staff.

 

Education, Communications, and Awareness

Recognizing excellence in programming that advances the appreciation, understanding, and practice of tangible and intangible cultural heritage as it relates to places in BC.

 

Planning and Management

Recognizing best practices for the planning and management of heritage places through reports, studies, and plans, as well as ongoing maintenance, operations, and reprogramming.

 

Professional Achievement

Lifetime Achievement: Recognizing heritage professionals who have made a career-long, cumulative impact and contribution to the practice and understanding of heritage in BC.

Emerging Heritage Professional: Recognizing heritage professionals who have worked the sector for under 10 years, and nonetheless made an impact on the advancement and understanding of heritage in BC.

 

Volunteer

Ruby Nobbs Distinguished Service: Recognizing volunteers who have made a life-long commitment, and who have shaped heritage in their communities through significant contributions and leadership. Learn more about Ruby Nobbs, and her impact on heritage in BC here.

Outstanding Impact Volunteer: Recognizing volunteers who have demonstrated dedication above and beyond to make a specific program, project or initiative a reality.

 

Indigenous and Diverse Cultures: Reconciliation, Redress, and Expanded Recognition

Recognizing initiatives and programs that contribute to the ongoing commitment in an organization to inclusivity, including reconciliation and/or redress, and expanded recognition, and have taken tangible steps that have made differences in how they operate, develop and deliver programs, and inspire their communities.


Awards Timeline

The Heritage BC Awards 2025 Timeline

June: Nomination period opens.
July:
Nomination period closes.
August:
Jury meets and evaluates nominations. Award recipients are notified privately.
September:
Award recipients are announced and celebrated at the Heritage BC Awards Ceremony alongside community members and supporters.


Information for Nominators

Ready to nominate an organization, individual, or project? Review the eligibility criteria, process, and submission requirements in our Awards Information Package (PDF).

If you have questions about the Heritage BC Awards form or process, or would like to discuss your potential nomination, please contact us. We will be happy to help you.

 Heritage BC Awards Jury

The Heritage BC Awards jury is composed of heritage professionals that represent a diversity of disciplines and regions from across the province. It comprises of a mix of BCAHP members, Heritage BC Board Directors, and other heritage practitioners based in BC. The jury receives awards submissions in advance of a virtual adjudication meeting. They rate the awards nominations using a rubric that draws from the criteria outlined in our Awards Information Package (PDF). The awards jury members are announced after the recipients of the given year’s awards program. You can view the 2024 Awards Jury along with all of the Award Recipient’s here.

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As an organization of provincial scope, Heritage BC recognizes that its members, and the local history and heritage they seek to preserve, occupy the lands and territories of B.C.’s Indigenous peoples. Heritage BC asks its members and everyone working in the heritage sector to reflect on the places where they reside and work, and to respect the diversity of cultures and experiences that form the richness of our provincial heritage.