Preserving Nova Scotia’s Built Heritage
Our built heritage is more than a part of our identity. It provides affordable housing, it is environmentally sustainable, and it invigorates local economies.
“The object of the Trust is to promote, foster and encourage interest in and preservation of buildings and sites of a historic, architectural or cultural nature within Nova Scotia.”
Nova Scotia’s heritage is constantly at risk.
Not only does the law inadequately protect heritage buildings, but some developers ignore the law entirely and demolish some of our province’s oldest buildings without any government oversight, public consultation, or legal grounds to do so.
The Heritage Trust works collaboratively to protect it.
We provide grants to help directly fund conservation efforts. We provide technical and planning assistance to organizations and local governments on matters of heritage protection and adaptive reuse. We reach out to local experts to produce educational content and events geared towards raising public awareness of heritage issues.
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Get involved.
Whether you wish to volunteer with us, make a donation, or help with our advocacy work, you can help make a difference.