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- ICH: Creating a Community-Based Inventory
- Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Climate Adaptation: Making a Case
- Climate Adaptation: Framework and Implementation
- Setting the Bar: A Reconciliation Guide for Heritage
- A Guide to Making a Case for Heritage
- Heritage Conservation Tools: Resource Guides
- Webinars On-Demand
- Heritage Workshops
- Other Heritage Education Programs
- Cultural Maps
- Resources
Resources
- Accessibility for Historic Places
- Conservation in BC Reports
- Definitions and Heritage FAQs
- Funding Opportunities
- Heritage Real Estate
- State of Heritage: Provincial Roundtables
- Indigenous Cultural Heritage
- Local Government: Library of Source Documents
- Racism: Do Not Let the Forgetting Prevail
- Heritage Quick Studies
- Other Tools, Publications, Guides
- Heritage Legacy Fund
- Job Board
- Contact
- About
- Events & Activities
- Learning Centre
- ICH: Creating a Community-Based Inventory
- Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Climate Adaptation: Making a Case
- Climate Adaptation: Framework and Implementation
- Setting the Bar: A Reconciliation Guide for Heritage
- 1. Setting the Bar: Heritage and Reconciliation Pledge
- 2. Setting the Bar: Acknowledging Land and People
- 3. Setting the Bar: Celebrating Days of Recognition and Commemoration
- 4. Setting the Bar: With a Commitment to Learn
- 5. Setting the Bar: Committing to Strategic Organizational Diversity
- 6. Setting the Bar: Mission-Making Room for Reconciliation
- 7. Setting the Bar: Possession, Interpretation, Repatriation and Cultural Care
- 8. Setting the Bar: Shared Decision Making
- 9. Setting the Bar: Statements of Significance and other heritage planning documents
- 10. Setting the Bar: Heritage Conservation Tools, Local Government Act
- A Guide to Making a Case for Heritage
- Heritage Conservation Tools: Resource Guides
- Webinars On-Demand
- Heritage Workshops
- Other Heritage Education Programs
- Cultural Maps
- Resources
- Accessibility for Historic Places
- Conservation in BC Reports
- Definitions and Heritage FAQs
- Funding Opportunities
- Heritage Real Estate
- State of Heritage: Provincial Roundtables
- Indigenous Cultural Heritage
- Local Government: Library of Source Documents
- Racism: Do Not Let the Forgetting Prevail
- Heritage Quick Studies
- Other Tools, Publications, Guides
- Heritage Legacy Fund
- Who Benefits?
- Past Grant Recipients
- 2021 Heritage Legacy Fund Recipients
- 2020 Heritage Legacy Fund Recipients
- 2019 Heritage Legacy Fund Projects
- 2018 Heritage Legacy Fund Projects
- 2017 Heritage Legacy Fund Projects
- 2016 Heritage Legacy Fund Recipients
- 2015 Heritage Legacy Fund Recipients
- 2014 Heritage Legacy Fund Recipients
- Heritage Legacy Fund Recipients, Projects 2005-2012
- Climate Disaster Response Fund
- Job Board
- Contact
Heritage Commissions
Heritage BC has established a series of open forum conversations that will allow heritage commissions to share ideas and discuss issues on an ongoing basis.
The open forum is open to all and there is no cost for participation. We do ask that you maintain an active membership with Heritage BC.
For more information and for upcoming meeting dates, please read our newsletter, Heritage Update (sign up here), or email us.
Open Forum for Commissions is Launched
The first open forum for heritage commissions was held on Friday, November 3, 2017.
The 13 participants discussed a wide range of topics, including:
- Development threatens built heritage and places considerable pressure on Commissions and local governments. The impacts and costs are very difficult to manage.
- Funding remains challenging.
- Planning for and sustaining Commissions is challenging. Knowledge can be lost, and practice can change, when people retire from Commissions. Rention and renewal of committee members can challenge continuity.
- Planning and paying for conservation remains challenging. Situations vary and there are many approaches.
Meeting for winter/spring 2018:
Open Forum for Commissions 1
Friday, January 26 at noon PST
Topics: Maintaining momentum and relationships with local government
Open Forum for Commissions 2
Friday, April 13 at noon PST
Topics: The pressure of development: working with developers and not against
Sign-up link.
Open Forum for Commissions 3
Friday, June 8 at noon PST
Topic: How the commission process is adapted in different communities: what works and what doesn’t
Sign-up link.
Recording of November 3, 2017 meeting can be accessed here.
The Mayor of Rossland, Kathy Moore, provided the City of Rossland-Heritage Commission Terms of Reference.
Recording of January 26, 2018 meeting: maintaining relationships with local government.
Notes from the January 26, 2018 meeting can be found here: Heritage Commissions-maintaining relationships notes.