Nominations are being accepted for the 2023 City of Moose Jaw Heritage Advisory Committee’s Heritage Awards event starting Jan. 15. Hosted by the Heritage Advisory Committee, the event recognizes individuals and business owners who demonstrate a commitment to maintaining and protecting Moose Jaw’s heritage properties.
Each year the committee recognizes individuals in the following categories:
Stewardship: This category recognizes individuals who care for a heritage property over the long term. In doing so, individuals must demonstrate that they have taken measures to protect, maintain, or stabilize the existing structure and materials, form, and integrity of the site. The heritage value of the site must be protected throughout the individual’s stewardship of the property.
Restoration: This category recognizes individuals who accurately reveal, recover, or represent the state of a historic place as it appeared at a given period in its history. In the process of doing so, the individual must also take measures to protect its heritage value.
Adaptive Re-use: This category recognizes individuals who make possible the continued use of a historic place through repair, alterations, and/or additions to the structure all while protecting its heritage value. An individual who makes continued use of a heritage property through a continued contemporary use that differs from the original function of the structure is also accepted, given that the modification is compatible with the heritage value of the building.
Advocacy or Heritage Education: This category recognizes the efforts of individuals or groups who advocate for heritage or who promote the conservation of a heritage site. Additionally, this category considers those who increase public awareness of heritage issues.
Sympathetic New Construction: This category recognizes new designs that are created with respect to the heritage character of an associated property, immediate context, or a neighbourhood. Considerations for the category take into account the compatibility of the new building or construction with regard to the heritage character of the streetscape, setting, or neighbourhood and in terms of architectural design, scale, form, materials used, and the application of minimal intervention.
Heritage Tradespeople/Craftspeople: This category recognizes the skills of an individual or team among the trades and craft professionals involved in, or relative to, a heritage conservation project.
The nomination form is available online at MooseJaw.ca. Completed forms can be printed and delivered to the City Clerk/Solicitor’s office or emailed to [email protected].
Nominations will also be accepted via email if they contain all the required information included on the nomination form.
To obtain a physical copy of the form, they can be picked up from the City Clerk/Solicitor’s office located at City Hall on the second floor. Completed forms can be dropped off at the same location. City Hall is located at 228 Main Street North and can be reached at 306-694-4400.
The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9 and awards will be presented in March at a date to be determined.
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