Our most recent issue has been released and you don’t want to miss it. Here are some highlights:
· Good Neighbours: Heritage Homes and Neighbourhoods looks at the importance of revitalizing and stabilizing historic neighbourhoods and celebrating their cultural significance. Read about Calgary’s week-long Century Homes party, Vancouver’s amazing liveable laneways, a Now House Wartime home rehab project and Canada’s first-ever Modernist Heritage Conservation District in Ottawa.
· Victoria’s Tax Incentive Program—14 Successful Years explains how an innovative tax exemption resulted in the residential conversion of vacant upper floors in a superb collection of downtown heritage buildings. All our municipalities can learn from this one!
· The Met is Back and Winnipeggers are Applauding celebrates the stunning transformation of the old Metropolitan Theatre, vacant since 1987, into a glamorous downtown destination once again.
Don’t miss our specially created Celebrating 40 Years section of reminiscences, as well as Faces & Places, In Transition, and more!
SUBSCRIBE! To obtain a copy of this issue of Canada’s only national magazine dedicated to the conservation of heritage buildings and historic places contact us online or call toll free 1-866-964-1066 ext. 229.
Hēritage Magazine is a bilingual quarterly published by the Heritage Canada Foundation. Its readers include heritage property owners, conservation specialists, advocates, elected officials and others who are committed to keeping historic places alive.
For further information contact:
Carolyn Quinn
Director, Communications and Editor, Hēritage Magazine
613-237-1066 ext. 229; cell 613-797-7206.