MOOSE JAW — The City of Moose Jaw has begun accepting nominations for the 2024 Municipal Heritage Awards, a program where the city’s heritage advisory committee recognizes individuals and business owners in six categories.
Beginning Monday, Jan. 13 and running until Friday, Feb. 14 at 5 p.m., the committee will accept nominations in the categories of:
- Stewardship: Long-term care of a heritage property, including 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 historic 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 designs that respect the heritage character of an associated property, its immediate context, or its 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
While there are six categories, the committee pointed out that there may not be a winner in every category depending on how many nominations are received.
Nomination forms can be found on the City of Moose Jaw’s website at moosejaw.ca/boards-committees-commissions/heritage-advisory-committee, or they can be picked up from and dropped off at the city clerk’s office on the second floor of city hall.
The city will also accept nominations via an email that contains all the required information from the nomination form. Such nominations may be sent to [email protected].
The heritage committee will present the awards in March during a city council meeting.
