There is still time for community groups that work in the heritage sector to submit their organizations or projects to the City of Moose Jaw’s 2022 Municipal Heritage Awards program.
The deadline for the annual program is Friday, Feb. 24.
Nominations can be emailed to the city clerk at [email protected] or by mail to City of Moose Jaw, city clerk’s office, 228 Main Street North, Second Floor, Moose Jaw, S6H 3J8.
There are seven categories in which groups or individuals can apply:
- Stewardship: Long-term care of a heritage property. Protecting, maintaining and/or stabilizing the existing materials, form and integrity of a heritage place while protecting its heritage value
- Restoration: Accurately revealing, recovering or representing the state of a historical place as it appeared at a particular period in its history while protecting its heritage value
- Adaptive Reuse: Making possible the continuing or compatible contemporary use of a historic place through repair, alterations, and/or additions while protecting its heritage value
- Advocacy/Heritage Education: Recognizes the efforts of individuals or groups that are advocating heritage or promoting the conservation of a heritage site or are increasing public awareness of heritage issues
- Sympathetic New Construction: Recognizes new design that respects the heritage character of an associated property, immediate context or neighbourhood. This takes into consideration the compatibility of the new buildings or additions with the heritage character of the streetscape, setting or neighbourhood in terms of architectural design, scale, form, materials and minimal intervention
- Heritage Tradespeople/craftspeople: Recognizes the skills of an individual or team in trades and craft professions relative to a heritage conservation project
- Collection of Distinction: Recognizes a group of citizens who have either maintained or preserved buildings, items, or certain architectural details, that highlight a specific historical time in the city’s development.
Recipients need not be neighbouring but could be related by historical use, development, or significance. This category can also include artifacts of distinction that can be submitted by citizens, businesses, and organizations
For more information, call 306-694-4400.
