Funding Program Reaches $1 Million
Ten grants approved by the Heritage Legacy Fund board on April 8 brought the total since the program started four years ago to more than $1 million. This does not include the million-dollar BC150 – Heritage Legacy Fund program of last December.
The latest grants included both repairs and a new sign for historic Bassett House in Okanagan Falls, the home of the local Heritage and Museum Society. Grants of $25,000 each will assist the Regional District of Central Kootenay to make repairs to historic Ainsworth Wharf, and the District of Wells to carry out much needed work on the Fire Hall. The BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan will receive just over $14,000 to assist with the cost of putting a new set of wheels on Locomotive #25, a vintage engine that is still working hard on the museum site. Other conservation grants will help with repairs to historic churches in Kaslo, Cumberland, Victoria, and Saanich. The Victoria Heritage Foundation will receive a $10,000 Heritage Awareness grant towards the cost of producing Volume IV of the very popular series, This Old House.
