Deadline: 6-Jan-23
Parks Canada is inviting applications for its National Cost-Sharing Program for Heritage Places to help ensure the protection of heritage places that have been formally recognized by the Government of Canada, but that it does not administer.
The National Cost-Sharing Program for Heritage Places is open to owners and eligible lessees of national historic sites, heritage lighthouses and heritage railway stations. The Program continues to support the Parks Canada Agency’s mandate of protecting and presenting places of national historic significance, and fostering the public’s understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of these places in ways that ensure their commemorative integrity for present and future generations.
Funding Information
The Program will reimburse up to 50% of eligible costs that are identified and approved in a cost-sharing contribution agreement, subject to maximum amounts specified in each project category:
- Category 1 (preparatory assistance): $25,000;
- Category 2 (conservation): $250,000;
- Category 3 (presentation): $25,000
Is your Project Eligible?
- Preparatory Assistance Projects: Projects to develop technical and planning documents necessary to ensure the site’s physical integrity. Eligible costs will be reimbursed up to the lesser of $25,000 or 50% of total eligible costs.
- Conservation Projects: Projects to conserve threatened components of a heritage place, in order to ensure its physical integrity. Eligible costs will be reimbursed up to the lesser of $250,000 or 50% of total eligible costs.
- Presentation Projects: Presentation projects that focus on communicating to the public the messages related to reasons for designation as a heritage place. Eligible costs will be reimbursed up to the lesser of $25,000 or 50% of total eligible costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for -profit Indigenous organizations that do not fully meet the Program application requirements are invited to contact the Program Office to discuss alternative financial support that may be available.
- To be eligible, you must be either:
- An owner or lessee (a lessee must have at least 10 years remaining on the lease as of the date of the application to the Program) of a heritage place, a part of a heritage place, or a contributing property within a heritage place,
- Which is:
- A not-for-profit organization;
- A regional or municipal government; or
- A provincial or territorial government, institution, agency or Crown Corporation;
- A not-for-profit organization acting on the authority and behalf of an eligible owner or lessee;
- A not-for-profit Indigenous organization with a formalized stewardship responsibility directly related to all or part of a heritage place; or
- A not-for-profit Indigenous organization acting on the authority and on behalf of an eligible not-for-profit Indigenous organization.
Ineligible
- Applicants representing or applying on behalf of individuals, the federal government (i.e. federal departments, Crown corporations and/or agencies), lessees of federally-owned heritage places; for-profit organizations or business entities (including condominium corporations); and
- Applicants representing historic places that have not been formally recognized by the Government of Canada.
Selection Criteria
- Parks Canada assesses each proposal on its own merit and relative to other proposals received. Each application received will be assessed on how the proposed project meets all five of the following criteria:
- Demonstrated level of threat to the heritage value(s) of the heritage place and suitability of proposed mitigation strategy or measures;
- Demonstrated a adherence to the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada (second edition);
- Demonstrated need for financial assistance, including evidence that the project could not proceed effectively without funding from the Program;
- Level of financial risk associated with the project, including the financial stability/viability of your organization, its financial management capacity, and the amount of secured matching funding in place; and
- Demonstrated capacity to carry out and complete the proposed activities, in terms of conservation expertise and prior experience, by December 31, 2023. In addition, proposals may be prioritized which seek to better represent the diversity and complexity of Canadian history, address the effects of climate change, or which advance accessibility or inclusion at heritage places.
For more information, visit Parks Canada.
