Richmond Heritage Awards

Ken Chow, Interface Architecture

For his work on the mixed use building at 3755 Chatham Street, which highlights the traditional narrow lots typical to Steveston Village.  The exterior draws inspiration from four of the local historic buildings to create four facades in a single building.

Ken Chow, Interface Architecture

Christine McGilvrary, President, Friends of the Richmond Archives

For her contribution as a host of the "Journey Through Time" online and telephone history sessions designed particularly for seniors who are not able to leave their homes or take part in outdoor programming during the pandemic.

 

Christine McGilvray, President, Friends of the Richmond Archives

Tonari Gumi, (Japanese Community Volunteer Association) and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre

For the publication of "From the Sea and Shore", a record for honouring the foodways of an immigrant community and the resilient people who sustained them.   Collected from the senior members of the Steveston Japanese Canadian Community, the recipes reflect their frugality and ingenuity in preserving Japanese tastes and culture using ingredients local to the west coast.

Members of the "From the Sea and Shore" Project Team

Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA)

For the CCA's school Heritage Fair Program.  The CCA teachers and their librarians spend countless hours training their students on how to use archival material and conduct on-site research, and CCA has developed a positive culture of learning which will hopefully lead to a lifelong interest and awareness of history and heritage.

Cornerstone Christian Academy Teachers

The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society and the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese-Canadian Studies

For its Fish Tales project, a community based story-telling project.   In 2021, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society partnered with the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese-Canadian Studies at UBC. The Fish Tales project documents and shares personal Chinese-Canadian in an effort to create community ties and a sense of belonging, through the topic of "seafood".

 

Richmond Museum Society

For their contribution to public history and heritage education through their recently launched Self-Guided Historical Walking Tours at Terra Nova and Brighouse, undertaken as a part of a new COVID-19 outreach initiative.

Richmond Hospital Healthcare Auxiliary

For their contribution to the conservation of historic places through their volunteer-led efforts to begin restoration of the protected heritage building known as the "Steveston Methodist Church" which is now home to the Auxiliary's Thrift Shop at 3711 and 3731 Chatham Street.

Richmond Museum Society Greg Walker (right) with Golmehr Kazari (left) of the Richmond Museum Services Department

Richmond Hospital/Healthcare Auxiliary Thrift Shop Ursula Van Duin

Sea Island Heritage Society

For raising public awareness on the history of the Sea IsIand.

The Sea Island Heritage Society is a small registered charity dedicated to collecting, cataloguing, recording and disseminating the history of Sea Island in Richmond. The Society was organized in 2001 and meets monthly at the Sea Island Community Centre. It also hosts a few open houses and other events throughout the year.

Richmond Garden Club

For stewarding the Paulik Neighbourhood Park.

The Paulik Neighbourhood Park is a six-acre park in the City Centre area which features a 1.5-acre garden. It was a family garden owned by the Paulik family beginning of the 1930s. A skilled group of volunteer gardeners from the Richmond Garden Club has been stewarding the Paulik Neighbourhood Park for 11 years and continues to maintain Mrs. Paulik’s 28 perennial garden beds.

The Sea Island Heritage Society members received a 2019 Heritage Awards at the Richmond Regional Heritage Fair Closing Ceremony

Richmond Garden Club received a 2019 Heritage Awards for their stewardship of Paulik Neighbourhood Park

Mr. Reiner Siperko and Mr. Bob Hodder

For the retention and reuse of the original concrete mural on the new-mixed development called the “Kimura Building”.

The Murals on the Kimura Building

Steveston Historical Society with Hugh McRoberts Secondary School Students

For its walking tour vignettes program, a five-part theatrical production about living and working in Steveston in the year 1917.

Mr. John Campbell, a Volunteer with the Friends of the Richmond Archives

For his on-going efforts and dedication to develop two social media programs, “Friends of the Richmond Archives” Facebook page and “Outside the Box” blog.

Steveston Historical Society’s Walking Tour Vignettes Program Participants

Mr. John Campbell (middle), a Volunteer with the Friends of the Richmond Archives, with members of the Richmond Heritage Commission