Heritage Strategic Plan Presented

Monday, March 06, 2006 07:29 PM

The Heritage Commission has presented its strategic plan to City Council, along with a request for $10,500.
The money would be to fund the completion of a Heritage inventory and develop a heritage registry. Council hasn't given the green light to that spending...yet.

The plan states three goals:

1. To promote Community Heritage Partnerships

2. Achieve better Heritage Conservation

3. Improve Heritage Awareness and Communication.

The report indicates there is strong support for preservation of heritage in the area, in that there are two significant museums, ( Exploration Place and the Railway Museum) and several local history groups.

Councilor Don Bassermann asked if there were any specific items that could be linked to the regional cultural plan, Luxton says cultural tourism is the fastest growing segment of tourism and could be linked with regional efforts. First Nations have a very rich heritage, he noted, and there is no reason why there can't be links in a larger cultural tourism initiative. The rescue of stained glass windows from the church in Shelley was used as an example of how partnerships can produce positive results. That rescue plan was sponsored by a local Rotary club.

Mayor Kinsley says it is important to see how much work has to be done. Council has approved a reccomendation to have Adminstration establish timelines and come up with further details on possible funding.

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Posted by: Free Enterprise on March 7 2006 9:12 AM

$10,000!! From us tax payers to study if we have junk called 'Heritage'?
Folks there is nothing in or around Prince George worth calling 'Heritage' let alone another grant from City Hall to find out. Heritage means something 'old' something maybe over 100 years old? I know we don’t know what ‘Heritage’ is if we call KGV School ‘Heritage’. Go to eastern Canada like Halifax, Montreal etc and then you will see 'Heritage'. I have nothing against an organization here in PG looking for this stuff but not on our valuable city tax dollars.
Ain’t it great…

Posted by: WhatImThinking on March 7 2006 9:58 AM

I applaud the efforts to get the heritage report completed and support funding this study much further. Unless we have pride in where we live and respect that people came here before us to build this city and region we will never value our heritage. Heritage is about what is unique and characteristic of Prince George and doesn’t have to be old or mean that we have to save everything. Saving our heritage has to start somewhere and this report is a great beginning.

And as to Free Enterprise’s comment… if we say there was a base of 50,000 tax paying residents in Prince George, funding this study would cost $0.20 out of your pocket!

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on March 7 2006 11:06 PM

If it only costs $0.20 why am I paying over $20,000 in property taxes?

Posted by: owl on March 7 2006 11:55 PM

hey .... God only knows ...

it says the City is being asked for $10,500 and you are paying $20,000!??!

There you go. You should ask for the $9,500 back from the city. Then you would be paying for this "study" and the rest of the population would not have to pay 20 cents each ....

;-)

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on March 8 2006 7:25 AM

Either that or we are being $0.20'd to death already. The story about the straw and the camel's back certainly never came from this City Council.

Posted by: Foo738 on March 8 2006 12:05 PM

"Go to eastern Canada like Halifax, Montreal etc and then you will see 'Heritage'."
So says "Free Enterprise". Of course, we will see heritage there.
That sure puts Prince George down and all the pioneers who made this City for you to denigrate.

Posted by: diplomat on March 8 2006 4:47 PM

I know everyone knows this already, but heritage is not only "old buildings."

"Heritage refers to something which is inherited from one's ancestors. It has several different senses, including:

* Cultural heritage, a nation's historic monuments, museum collections, etc.

* Natural heritage, a nation's fauna and flora, natural resources, and landscape

* Tradition, customs and practices inherited from ancestors

* Inheritance of physical goods after the death of an individual

* Biological inheritance of physical characteristics

* Birthright, something inherited due to the place, time, or circumstances of someone's birth.

I think we have plenty of all the things mentioned above. Knocking down old buildings which have outlived their usefulness is not always a wanton destruction of heritage.

Posted by: owl on March 9 2006 4:32 PM

Heritage is that which differentiates Quebec from the other provinces; that which differentiates the First Nations from those who came thousands of years later; that which differentiates Prairie dwellers from Coastal dwellers; Northerners from Southerners; Catholics from Jews; Muslisms from Hindus.

Heritage is what causes wars.

Heritage and all heritage buildings, artifacts, practices, etc. should be abolished in order to save humans on this earth and, above all, save taxpayers from having to build museums and maintain them and preserve the countyside for nature rather than bulding on it.

Posted by: diplomat on March 11 2006 7:20 AM

Owl: "Heritage is what causes wars."

Not entirely true, as the real causes of war are nationalism, fear, greed, intolerance, religion based smug convictions of superiority and in the case of George W. Bush fundamental religionism combined with actual stupidity.

What is the value or impact of Holocaust Museums dedicated to the suffering of millions, some of them Ukranians, Russians, Jews, Chinese, Germans, Japanese?

Or of the Vietnam War Memorial?