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BC Heritage Awards Nomination Form

2026 Heritage BC Awards

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1Introduction
2Nominator details
3Award Category
4Project or Nominee details
5Award Questions
6Supporting Materials
7Submit
  • The BC Heritage Awards celebrates outstanding achievements and best practices that have impacted and strengthened all forms of heritage as a valued cultural resource in communities throughout British Columbia.

    The BC Heritage Awards recognizes the achievements of individuals, organizations, groups, businesses, and local and regional governments in communities throughout BC.

    Award categories:

    • Conservation: Recognizing best practices in the preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic places.
      • Small but Mighty: Recognizing heritage conservation in communities and organizations whose perseverance and dedication more than compensate for small budgets and few staff.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Volunteer: this award is presented in two sub-categories:
      • 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.
      • Outstanding Impact Volunteer: Recognizing volunteers who have demonstrated dedication above and beyond to make a specific program, project, or initiative a reality.
    • Professional Achievement: this award is presented in two sub-categories:
      • 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.
    • 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.
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  • Nominator Information

    Please note:

    • The nominator must be a Member of Heritage BC.
    • Awards will be given to projects (not teams or individuals) for the Conservation; Planning and Management; Education, Communications, and Awareness; and Indigenous and Diverse Cultures: Reconciliation, Redress, and Expanded Recognition categories.
    • Awards will be given to individuals in the Volunteer and Professional Achievement categories.
  • Nominator Information

  • Please add your Job Title below. If this doesn't apply to you, please type NA.
  • Please add the name of your Organization below. If this doesn't apply to you, please type NA.
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  • Award Category

  • Please select the award category you are submitting a nomination for, from the drop down menu below:
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  • Project Information

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  • Main contact details for nominated project

  • Please add the nominee's Job Title below. If this doesn't apply, please type NA.
  • Please add the nominee's Organization below. If this doesn't apply, please type NA.
  • Nominee

    Please add the details of the individual you are nominating

  • Please add the nominee's Job Title below. If this doesn't apply, please type NA.
  • Please add the nominee's Organization below.
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  • Award Category Questions

  • Conservation

    Eligibility: Historic buildings and places, and cultural landscapes; archaeological sites

  • See pages 21 and 22: https://www.historicplaces.ca/media/18072/81468-parks-s+g-eng-web2.pdf
  • Additional Considerations:

    Answering these optional questions provides important context about how your project's broader social, cultural, and community impacts, which are key considerations in the adjudication process.

  • 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

    Eligibility: Historic places, cultural heritage, tangible and intangible heritage, as well as Ancient Heritage [including but not limited to archaeological sites, oral histories, intangible culture, Indigenous knowledge systems, sacred landscapes] ; Education or Interpretation through social media, publications, displays, exhibits, or other outputs, actions or initiatives that promote heritage.

  • Additional Considerations:

    Answering these optional questions provides important context about how your project's broader social, cultural, and community impacts, which are key considerations in the adjudication process.

  • Planning and Management

    Eligibility: Community Heritage Planning; Cultural and heritage resource management; Adaptable re-uses for continued-use; Planning initiatives for long-term conservation and maintenance plans, community plans, zoning or financial incentives; preservation of Ancient Heritage [including but not limited to archaeological sites, oral histories, intangible culture, Indigenous knowledge systems, sacred landscapes]

  • Additional Considerations:

    Answering these optional questions provides important context about how your project's broader social, cultural, and community impacts, which are key considerations in the adjudication process.

  • 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.

    Eligibility: Must be nominated for work accomplished in a volunteer capacity

  • Outstanding Impact Volunteer

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

    Eligibility: Must be nominated for work accomplished in a volunteer capacity

  • 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.

    Eligibility: Professionals working in the heritage sector within fields such as … Archaeology & Anthropology, Conservation, Craft & Trade, Cultural Tourism, Education, Environmental Assessment, History, Architecture and Landscape, Engineering, Historic Sites, Museums and Archives, Planners, Public Sector, etc.

  • Professional Achievement: 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.

    Eligibility: Professionals working in the heritage sector within fields such as … Archaeology & Anthropology, Conservation, Craft & Trade, Cultural Tourism, Education, Environmental Assessment, History, Architecture and Landscape, Engineering, Historic Sites, Museums and Archives, Planners, Public Sector, etc.

  • Indigenous and Diverse Cultures: reconciliation, redress, and expanded recognition

    Eligibility: Tangible and intangible heritage ; Internal (changes within an organization), external (public facing events, programs) ; Partnerships; Ancient Heritage [including but not limited to archaeological sites, oral histories, intangible culture, Indigenous knowledge systems, sacred landscapes]

  • Additional Considerations

    Answering these optional questions provides important context about how your project's broader social, cultural, and community impacts, which are key considerations in the adjudication process.

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  • Upload the Following Supporting Material:

    • Before and after photographs
    • Schematic plans or working drawings
    • Relevant Written Reports: SoS, conservation plan, impact assessments, and other heritage reports
  • Upload the Following Supporting Material:

    • Electronic copies of publications
    • Digital materials such as websites, interactive displays, or copies of exhibit boards
    • Relevant photographs of events, or other visuals
    • Impact statements from community members
  • Upload the Following Supporting Material:

    • Relevant before and after photographs
    • Electronic publications and reports: Conservation Plans, Community Plans
  • Upload the Following Supporting Material:

    Ruby Nobbs Distinguished Service:

    • 3+ Impact statements
    • General timeline of experience
    • Relevant photographs & documents (newspaper clippings, etc.)
  • Outstanding Impact Volunteer:

    • 2+ Impact statements
    • Documents from initiative/or project
    • Relevant photographs & documents (newspaper clippings, etc.)
  • Upload the Following Supporting Material:

    Lifetime Achievement:

    • 3+ Impact statements
    • General timeline of experience
    • Relevant photographs & documents (newspaper clippings, etc.)
  • Upload the Following Supporting Material:

    Emerging Heritage Professional:

    • 2+ Impact statements
    • Relevant photographs & documents (newspaper clippings, etc.)
  • Upload the Following Supporting Material:

    • 3+ impact statements from community members, including one who was not directly involved in the initiative or program
    • Relevant plans, reports documents
    • Relevant photographs
    • For all categories, PDF documents or scanned images of letters, news clippings, or other materials may also be uploaded.
    • Statements of Impact should:
      • Be under 200 words (1 page double spaced max.)
      • Explain how they became aware of the nominee (ex. worked with them, participated in the program, was consulted as a community member).
      • Describe how the nominee impacted them or their community positively.
      • Share why they believe the nominee should receive an award.
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    • By submitting this nomination form, you consent to the collection and use of the information provided for the purposes of administering the awards program. This includes reviewing nominations, contacting nominators and nominees, and publicly recognizing award recipients. Personal information will be stored securely and will not be shared outside the organization except as required to complete the awards process or with the nominee’s consent.

      By checking the box below and submitting this form, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to this policy.
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