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Heritage BC Awards

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

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.