- Heritage 101
- Advocacy
- Accessibility for Historic Places
- Climate & Sustainability
- Cultural Maps
- Heritage Place Conservation
- Heritage Policy & Legislation
- Homeowners
- Intangible Cultural Heritage
- 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
- Webinars On-Demand
Racism: Do Not Let the Forgetting Prevail
In June and July 2020, Heritage BC featured a series of guest posts that provided individuals with a platform to share their personal encounters with racism, inclusivity, and equity. These poignant narratives serve as invaluable tools for the wider heritage community, fostering reflection and learning through diverse perspectives and lived experiences.
Within this collection, you’ll find eight guest posts, each offering unique insights into the challenges and triumphs faced within our communities. Dive into these narratives to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding issues of race and identity.
Guest Posts:
Visit these websites and sources to support and learn more about the history and heritage of BC and Canada’s Black community:
- Places of Interest Guide, compiled by the BC Black History Awareness Society
- Black Strathcona, a website highlighting the East Side neighbourhood of Strathcona and featuring 10 videos
- Places That Matter: Hogan’s Alley (Vancouver Heritage Foundation)
- Guided tour (video) of Black Strathcona hosted by Kor Kase, Co-Founder of Afro Van Connect
- Roots of black history run deep on Vancouver Island (Times Colonist, published 2016)
- Collection: Black History in Canada, published by The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Secret Victoria: Rush to Freedom, a Victoria-based documentary exploring the important role of black pioneers in B.C.’s history.
- Hogan’s Alley Society, building “the capacity of racialized and marginalized communities to participate in city building.”
- Nanaimo African Heritage Society
- African Descent Society and African Descent Festival
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
– Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.