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Protecting Alberta’s historic places : designation, grant funding, conservation advice

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The Ministry of Arts, Culture and Status of Women is committed to protecting Alberta’s built heritage and supporting owners as stewards of heritage properties. Significant historic places are... More ≫

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The Ministry of Arts, Culture and Status of Women is committed to protecting Alberta’s built heritage and supporting owners as stewards of heritage properties. Significant historic places are legally protected through designation. Owners are supported through grant funding and conservation advice. This document will explain how the following programs work together: designation, historic resource conservation grants and heritage conservation advisory services.

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Heritage Conservation Adviser (HCA) regions

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Presents a map of the Heritage Conservation Adviser regions in Alberta and the adviser responsible for each region. Heritage conservation advisers provide technical information to historic... More ≫

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Presents a map of the Heritage Conservation Adviser regions in Alberta and the adviser responsible for each region. Heritage conservation advisers provide technical information to historic resource owners to assist with restoration or rehabilitation. Assistance is often in conjunction with a cost-shared grant application to the Heritage Preservation Partnership Program of the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation.

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Heritage preservation partnership program guidelines : heritage awareness, publication, and research grants

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Includes information on funding opportunities available through the Heritage Preservation Partnership Program to support heritage awareness projects. Heritage awareness grants provide funding to... More ≫

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Includes information on funding opportunities available through the Heritage Preservation Partnership Program to support heritage awareness projects. Heritage awareness grants provide funding to various forms of initiatives that preserve, interpret, promote awareness, produce new understanding or add to the knowledge base of Alberta's history. Publication grants support the publication of books and other documents that preserve, interpret, promote awareness, produce new understanding or add to the knowledge base of Alberta's history. Research grants support research that will preserve, interpret, produce new understanding or add to the knowledge base of Alberta's history.

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Heritage preservation partnership program : guidelines for historic resource conservation grants

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The Heritage Preservation Partnership Program is the principal heritage funding program of the Government of Alberta. The program provides matching grants and scholarship funds to support... More ≫

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The Heritage Preservation Partnership Program is the principal heritage funding program of the Government of Alberta. The program provides matching grants and scholarship funds to support initiatives that preserve and interpret Alberta’s rich heritage. It is administered by the Historic Resources Management Branch of Alberta Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women.

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Heritage Preservation Partnership Program guidelines : historic resource conservation grants, transportation/industrial artifact conservation grants

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Includes information on two grants available through the Heritage Preservation Partnership Program to support conservation projects. The Historic Resource Conservation Grant provides funding for... More ≫

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Includes information on two grants available through the Heritage Preservation Partnership Program to support conservation projects. The Historic Resource Conservation Grant provides funding for the conservation of Alberta's historic places, while the Transportation/Industrial Artifact Conservation Grant provides funding for the preservation or restoration of transportation and industrial artifacts that have distinctive and significant connections to Alberta's history.

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Turner Valley Gas Plant conservation plan

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The Turner Valley gas plant site, used for many decades for petroleum production and refining, was decommissioned after 1985 and was designated as a historic site in 1995. The conservation... More ≫

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The Turner Valley gas plant site, used for many decades for petroleum production and refining, was decommissioned after 1985 and was designated as a historic site in 1995. The conservation planning presented in this report has been developed to mesh conservation priorities determined in the assessment of the buildings and equipment, together with the interpretive strategy. The plan establishes two distinct components for the site: a self-guided component, and a guided walking tour.

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