Helping Alberta’s municipalities identify, evaluate and manage locally significant historic places.
Alberta’s municipalities are now working on plans and budgets for 2014. I’d like to remind municipal stakeholders responsible for heritage about the grant programs offered through the Municipal Heritage Partnership Program (funded by the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation).
The Municipal Heritage Partnership Program offers three types of grants to help municipalities conserve locally significance historic places.
A municipality can apply for funding to complete a heritage survey. A survey gathers basic information about a municipality’s potential historic places. There are many articles on RETROactive describing survey projects municipalities have undertaken using these grants.
A municipality can also apply for funding to inventory historic resources. An inventory lists places that are locally significant, evaluates them to decide exactly why they are significant and creates the documentation needed to designate these as Municipal Historic Resources. You can also peruse RETROactive posts on municipal inventory projects that our partner municipalities have worked on.
A municipality can also apply for funding to develop a heritage management plan. A management plan helps the municipality conserve significant historic places, the highlight of which is policy on the designation of Municipal Historic Resources. You can read about different municipal heritage management plans on RETORactive as well.
The grant application consists of a written project proposal, which must include a budget. The foundation may award a grant that can cover up to half the cost of the project, up to certain maximum amounts.
| M.D. or County | City | Town | Village | |
| Survey | $30 000 | $30 000 | $20 000 | $10 000 |
| Inventory | $30 000 | $30 000 | $20 000 | $10 000 |
| Management Plan | $20 000 | $20 000 | $15 000 | $7 500 |
The next grant deadline will be early in 2014, but it’s never too early to begin planning a project. You can learn more about the Municipal Heritage Partnership Program grant program by visiting the cost sharing page on the website.
If you’re thinking of undertaking a heritage conservation project, please contact us. We’d be happy to help you plan your next project.
Written by: Michael Thome, Municipal Heritage Services Officer.
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