Edmonton Heritage Council

The EHC has empowered Edmontonians to explore, preserve, and celebrate their shared heritage through community partnerships, grants, and innovative initiatives since 2009. Our mission is to connect people to the stories of our city by helping Edmontonians research, preserve, interpret, and advocate for our heritage.

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Edmonton Heritage Council

What issues do you care about in the 2025 municipal election, and why?

Preserving Edmonton’s heritage places

The importance of updating Edmonton’s Heritage Places Strategy, now in progress, is an important update of the City’s approach to historic resources. It will reimagine how to best identify, commemorate, and preserve the places that matter most to Edmontonians. There are opportunities for:

  1. Broadening the scope to include diverse histories, voices, and places, and to address climate resilience.
  2. Preventing loss of significant historic buildings including the Royal Alberta Museum in Glenora, mid-century buildings, and other key places on the Municipal Heritage Inventory, through increased funding for the Historic Resources Management Program.
  3. Recognizing Edmonton’s diverse cultural heritage in public spaces and naming, renaming and commemoration, as well as the placement of public monuments.
  4. Increasing awareness of Edmonton’s heritage places through education for industry and citizens, as well as support for preservation and place-making programs such as the Edmonton City as Museum Project (ECAMP)


Heritage, Roots, & Reconciliation

The importance of Edmonton’s history and heritage is not limited to buildings and public spaces; it includes:

  1. Identifying and preserving Indigenous cultural heritage including natural heritage and traditional land use areas, through support for Indigenous-led heritage initiatives such as the FIRE (Funding Indigenous Resurgence in Edmonton) program of the Edmonton Heritage Council.
  2. Increased funding for community heritage initiatives that research and document the events, people and places that make Edmonton. Additional support for the Heritage Community Investment Program will sustains key non-profit heritage organizations and connect more Edmontonians in telling their story as essential to Edmonton’s story—increasing connections and belonging.
  3. Increased support for the work of City of Edmonton Archives & Heritage Collection in extending its reach and programming in the community.


Economic Sustainability & Vibrant Neighbourhoods

  1. Recognition of the important economic value of the heritage sector in Edmonton’s economic action plan
  2. Create more opportunities for heritage experiences in Edmonton neighbourhoods connected to neighbourhood renewal initiatives.
  3. Creating guidelines for better design in the renewal, densification and evolution of Edmonton’s neighbourhoods- maintain and add to neighbourhood character connect to heritage (sense of place, community value).