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    About

    • What We Do
    • Membership
    • Donate
    • Newsletter
    • Plans and Reports
    • Board of Directors
    • Staff
    • Careers
    • Heritage BC AGM 2025
  • Programs

    Programs

    • Heritage BC Awards
    • Conference
    • Heritage Week
    • Online Course: Community Heritage Fundamentals
    • Webinars
  • Resources

    Resources

    • Heritage 101
    • Advocacy
    • Accessibility for Historic Places
    • Climate & Sustainability
    • Cultural Maps
    • Heritage Place Conservation
    • Heritage Policy & Legislation
    • Homeowners
    • Intangible Cultural Heritage
    • Reconciliation
    • Webinars On-Demand
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    • Heritage Legacy Fund
    • Climate Disaster Response Fund
    • Government Funded Grants
  • Blog
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  • Heritage 101
    • Heritage Quick Studies
    • Definitions and Heritage FAQs
    • Organizations to Know
  • Advocacy
    • A Guide to Making a Case for Heritage
    • Election Resources
    • Reports : Heritage Conservation in BC
    • State of Heritage: Provincial Roundtables
    • Heritage Week
  • Accessibility for Historic Places
  • Climate & Sustainability
    • Building Resilience and Sustainability
    • Climate Adaptation : Making A Case Resource Guide
    • Climate Adaptation: Framework and Implementation
    • Seismic Risk & British Columbia’s Historic Streetscapes
  • Cultural Maps
    • Mapping Heritage Resources
    • Classroom Resources
  • Heritage Place Conservation
    • Heritage Conservation Tools: Resource Guides
      • Community Heritage Commissions
      • Community Heritage Register
      • Heritage Conservation Areas
      • Heritage Designation
      • Heritage Revitalization Agreements
    • Conservation in BC : Reports and Factsheets
    • Heritage Real Estate
      • Insuring Heritage Properties
    • Publications on Heritage Place Conservation Practices
  • Heritage Policy & Legislation
    • Heritage Legislation in BC
    • Local Government: Library of Source Documents
    • Heritage Conservation Tools: Resource Guides
    • Webinars for Heritage Commissions, Committees and Local Governments
  • Homeowners
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  • Intangible Cultural Heritage
    • Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Resource Guide
    • ICH: Creating a Community-Based Inventory
  • Reconciliation
    • Indigenous Cultural Heritage
    • Setting the Bar: A Reconciliation Guide for Heritage
      • 1. Heritage and Reconciliation Pledge
      • 2. Acknowledging Land and People
      • 3. Celebrating Days of Recognition and Commemoration
      • 4. With a Commitment to Learn
      • 5. Committing to Strategic Organizational Diversity
      • 6. Mission-Making Room for Reconciliation
      • 7. Possession, Interpretation, Repatriation and Cultural Care
      • 8. Shared Decision Making
      • 9. Statements of Significance and other heritage planning documents
      • 10. Heritage Conservation Tools, Local Government Act
    • Racism: Do Not Let the Forgetting Prevail
    • Taking Action: resources for diversity and inclusion
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Heritage 101

New to Heritage? Want to familiarize a colleague or friend with it?

Use the following resources to learn all of the heritage basics. Then explore our Learning Centre to get in depth on how heritage work connects to climate change, accessibility, reconciliation, and more!


Heritage Quick Studies

A collection of downloadable one to two page reference guides that break down the basics on the most relevant heritage related topics.

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Heritage FAQs and Definitions

Answers to our frequently asked questions and a list of frequently used heritage terms and their definitions

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Organizations to Know

List of and links to relevant organizations that work with heritage in some capacity from a municipal to international scale.

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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.