The annual National Trust Conference is Canada’s largest heritage learning and networking event. Held every year since 1974, the National Trust Conference brings together a wide-range of people working to keep Canada’s heritage alive: from grassroots activists and elected officials, to professionals, planners, policy makers, and property owners.
Heritage conservation in Canada has never felt more critically important, whether it’s recognizing marginalized places, responding to the climate emergency, or helping sustain the sense of place, pride, and wellbeing of communities. And yet Canada’s heritage movement is under unprecedented pressures: from social disruption and calls to resolve inequities, to seismic economic or environmental shifts, to rapid intensification for housing. How to navigate this societal sea change? Where is heritage now, and where does it need to be? Now is a time for the full spectrum of the “heritage eco-system” – non-profits to professionals, government to educational institutions and industry – to come together, and rearticulate the value of sustaining and reinventing our heritage places. Now is the time for action.
