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Celebrate our Heritage on Alberta Heritage Day!

Alberta Heritage Day - August 3rd, 2009

August First Monday in August Alberta Heritage Day
Recognize the cultural heritage of Alberta and celebrate your own!


Government of Alberta – Culture and Community Spirit

Culture
“Alberta's population is made up of many ethnic backgrounds. Newcomers are encouraged to keep their traditions when they move here. Albertans are fortunate to be exposed to so many different foods, dances and cultures, as part of everyday life.
The province celebrates multiculturalism by celebrating the first Monday in August as Heritage Day, a statutory holiday.” – About Alberta

Alberta: Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories - 20% sample data
- Statistics Canada, 2008 Census

• Cultural Policy
• Heritage and Museums
• Help Make a Difference - Human Rights and Diversity
• Celebrate All Year Round

Links - Native History and Culture

• Aboriginal Tourism Team Canada
• Native History
• Blackfoot Confederacy websites
• First Nations SchoolNet

The Orator Spring 2009 
"Ministry of Aboriginal Relations newsletter. It draws its name from the historic oral tradition that has been vitally important in preserving Aboriginal history and culture in Alberta." 

Links - Archeology and Education

• Alberta-How the West was Young
• Alberta Archaeology/Glossary
• Simon Fraser University website
• First Nations SchoolNet

Links - Other Historic Sites

• Frank Slide Interpretive Centre
• Remington Carriage Museum
• Provincial Museum of Alberta
• Alberta Culture and Community Spirit

Links - Other

• Cowboy Trail
• Great Canadian Barn Dance
• Mounties to Mountains

Canada

"In only a century and a quarter since Confederation, Canadians have shaped out of the North American wilderness one of the most privileged societies on the face of the earth. Ranking among the seven most prosperous nations in the world, Canada is rich not only in the abundance of our resources and the magnificence of our land, but also in the diversity and the character of our people. We have long been known as one of the most tolerant, progressive, innovative, caring and peaceful societies in existence."
-The Will of a Nation: Awakening the Canadian Spirit by George Radwanski & Julia Luttrell

Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories - 20% sample data - Statistics Canada, 2006 Census


Government of Canada - Canadian Heritage
"Through the Canadian Heritage portfolio, the Government of Canada plays a vital role in the preservation and promotion of Canada's heritage and culture."

Heritage
Heritage Programs

Heritage Publications

Government of Canada - Citizenship and Immigration

Culture

What is Multi-culturalism?
"Canadian multiculturalism is fundamental to our belief that all citizens are equal. Multiculturalism ensures that all citizens can keep their identities, can take pride in their ancestry and have a sense of belonging. Acceptance gives Canadians a feeling of security and self-confidence, making them more open to, and accepting of, diverse cultures. The Canadian experience has shown that multiculturalism encourages racial and ethnic harmony and cross-cultural understanding, and discourages ghettoization, hatred, discrimination and violence."

Canadian Multiculturalism: An Inclusive Citizenship

Multiculturalism Program Offices

Policy and Legislation Concerning Multiculturalism

Publications

Canadian Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Canada Foundation is a national, membership-based organization and registered charity established in 1973. The Honourable Jean Chrétien, the minister responsible for the foundation's creation, said at that time: "Maturity may be recognized in a nation when its people take thought for their past: take thought... in the dynamic sense of knowing the past as a key to understanding the present and future."

Mandate
The letters patent which established the Heritage Canada Foundation gave it the mandate to:

"...preserve and demonstrate and to encourage the preservation and demonstration of the nationally significant historic, architectural, natural and scenic heritage of Canada with a view to stimulating and promoting the interest of the people of Canada in that heritage."

Celebrate Our Heritage
Heritage Day is an opportunity to celebrate the architectural heritage and historic places of Canada. The Heritage Canada Foundation promotes the third Monday in February each year as Heritage Day and has long advocated adopting this date as a national holiday.

This year, HCF is celebrating Heritage and the Environment: Saving Places Built to Last.

A number of useful resources are now available to assist communities to develop a program around this theme—whether it is to celebrate the inherently green credentials of historic buildings, highlight how they have been upgraded to more environmentally friendly standards, or to offer information on how to “green” a heritage building.

HCF’s 2009 Top Ten Most Endangered Places List
includes: Crowsnest Pass Mining Complexes and Coleman’s Historic Downtown, Alberta—CANARY IN A COAL MINE

HCF’s 2008 Top Ten Most Endangered Places List
includes: Old St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church
Calgary, Alberta – HISTORIC PIONEER CHURCH LEFT TO VANDALS

Heritage Canada Foundation – 2008 Worst Losses List
includes: Central Pentecostal Tabernacle, Edmonton, Alberta – LOST TO CONDO DEVELOPMENT
Included on HCF’s 2007 Top Ten Endangered Places list, the landmark mid-century Modernist tabernacle, designed by award-winning Edmonton architect Peter Hemingway, was demolished in March 2007 to make way for a condominium development.

History - Area Conservation Program

By the end of 1978, Heritage Canada had established conservation areas in 7 of 10 provinces and in the Yukon territory. These areas included:

• Old Strathcona, Edmonton, Alberta

Publications



Related Stories:

October 8th, 1971 - House of Commons Debates: Federal Multicultural Policy
- Right Hon. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Robert L. Stanfield, David Lewis, Réal Caouette

"I wish to emphasize the view of the government that a policy of multiculturalism within a bilingual framework is basically the conscious support of individual freedom of choice. We are free to be ourselves. But this cannot be left to chance. It must be fostered and pursued actively. If freedom of choice is in danger for some ethnic groups, it is in danger for all. It is the policy of this government to eliminate any such danger and to "safeguard" this freedom . . ."
- Right Hon. Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Library and Archives Canada - Multicultural Resources and Services 

Revised March 16th, 2006 - Canadian Multiculturalism
by Michael Dewing and Marc Leman, Library of Parliament

CBC Archives: Making the Mosaic: Multiculturalism in Canada