New MHPP Projects Funded for Communities!

Congratulations to four communities that have recently been awarded grants by the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation for heritage planning projects!

The Town of High River will receive a $20, 000 matching grant from the Municipal Heritage Partnership Program (MHPP) to undertake a Heritage Inventory project, evaluating potentially significant historic places in this growing southern Alberta town. This is the first collaboration of the Town of High River with MHPP.

Heading up north to another “River” town, Peace River has been awarded a matching grant of $6, 000 to develop a Heritage Management Plan. This plan will build upon the previous Heritage Inventory work funded by the Foundation through MHPP.

Lacombe, Alberta’s newest City, will receive a matching grant of $24, 500 to continue its program of evalating its significant collection of historic places in a second phase of Heritage Inventory work.

And, last, but definitely not least, the Municipal District of Bighorn, located on the cusp of Banff National Park, has been approved for a matching grant of $20, 000 for the creation of its own Heritage Management Plan. This project will build upon years of previous partnership with MHPP, which yielded both a Heritage Survey and Inventory.

These municipalities join numerous others – both rural and urban – that are currently partnering with MHPP to help create a future for Alberta’s historic places. These communities include:

• City of Calgary – Inventory of Heritage Bridges & Crossings – $22, 500
• City of Edmonton – Heritage Inventory of Strathcona Neighbourhoods (Phase 3) – $30, 000
• City of Edmonton – Heritage Inventory of McCauley Neighbourhood – $30, 000
• City of Lethbridge – Heritage Inventory (Phase 3) – $5, 490
• City of Camrose – Heritage Inventory – $30, 000
• Town of Drumheller – Heritage Inventory – $20, 000
• Town of Pincher Creek – Heritage Survey – $20, 000
• Town of Didsbury – Heritage Inventory – $20, 000
• Village of Marwayne – Heritage Inventory – $ 2, 500
• Municipal District of Big Lakes – Heritage Survey – $30, 000
• Smoky Lake County (regional collaborative project) -Heritage Survey, Inventory, & Management Plan – $60, 000
• Vulcan County (regional collaborative project) – Heritage Survey & Inventory – $36, 000
• Yellowhead County – Heritage Survey – $30, 000

We are looking forward to working with these municipalities to help protect, conserve and celebrate the places that matter most to Albertans.