Heritage Management
Community Engagement
Western Heritage has helped numerous communities uncover their heritage: a specific building or feature, an entire neighbourhood, or an entire region of significant heritage.
Our services include disseminating historic records, non-invasive geophysical studies, and archaeological excavations.
We can work with community groups to host town hall forums or develop long-term displays. We can also facilitate ongoing archaeological excavations in partnership with local schools, bands, community centres, archaeology chapters or universities.
Cultural Resource Management
Cultural Resource Management (CRM) is about managing potential conflict between development and the preservation of sites with historic, archaeological or cultural significance.
Western Heritage has helped numerous clients balance their development activities with appropriate CRM responses. With specialists in both the historical and archaeological fields, we have the scientific depth and professional expertise to address many issues for clients in Western Canada and neighbouring US states.
Historical Services
Western Heritage has the expertise to provide a variety of historical services.
Our historical services are tailored to the needs of land developers, community groups, local governments, municipalities and other clients. Services include:
- Historic research (historic land title searches, archival research, oral history interviews)
- Historic photograph collection and in-terpretation
- Aerial photo collection and interpreta-tion
- Historic building and structure inventories
- Historic architecture description
- Historic structure description, dating, analysis and evaluation
- Historic persons biographies
- Cemeteries research
- Historic artifact research and analysis
- Area histories and historic overviews
- Municipal and neighbourhood historic inventories
Historical artifacts are researched for date, function, affiliation and social context. Western Heritage provides a comprehensive historical report with every historical archaeological excavation.
Palaeontology
Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric plants and animals throughout the fossil record. Paleontological resources are protected by provincial governments.
Western Heritage offers a full range of palaeontology services, and can provide developers with solutions to comply with paleontological regulations in Canada.
