A Good Path to Preserving Our Heritage in BC – The Tyee

September 29, 2025

Sustained efforts to improve the Heritage Conservation Act rightfully have included First Nations. Let’s work together on the final stage.

How much do we value our heritage in British Columbia? And how can we do a better job of preserving it?

Those questions are at the heart of a years-long process of revising the Heritage Conservation Act, or HCA. That the act needs to be modernized is beyond question. It is over three decades since it was last amended, and the law has not done a good job of protecting heritage property in B.C.

For years, First Nations have been advocating with the B.C. government to change it, and that is now happening and has been over the past four years. The process has been public and transparent, and anyone who wants to get involved in having a say can do so.

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