Vancouver Heritage Foundation

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation supports the conservation of Vancouver’s heritage buildings because they are important cultural assets of our city. Through public awareness and education activities, incentive programs, and by advising, supporting and generally working with people who want to undertake conservation projects, the Foundation is making a difference to the neighbourhoods and streetscapes of our city.

In addition to fundraising to build up an endowment to protect heritage buildings into the future, the VHF has a wide array of public programs.

• TRUE COLOURS, an exterior paint program in partnership with corporate sponsor, Benjamin Moore Paints. Selected heritage homes throughout the city are painted in authentic and original colours. The Historical Vancouver True Colours colour card, showing the palette of 35 new locally named heritage colours is available in Benjamin Moore retailers.
• RESTORE IT! a program giving incentives for the restoration of the exterior fabric of designated heritage houses. Projects such as the repair of masonry, windows, porches, roofs and siding are funded.
• OPEN VANCOUVER: Annual Heritage House Tour for 2000 Vancouverites to tour inside a selection of unique heritage homes; and Sacred Sites a self guided tour of a selection of churches, temples and cathedrals.
• Undertake special projects such as the moving and restoration of one of downtown Vancouver’s last remaining lane houses.
• Workshops and printed technical information pamphlets for heritage homeowners and professionals demonstrating good restoration techniques for wood windows, porches stairs and railings, painted wood surfaces and stained glass.

For further information on the activities of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation visit www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org or call 604 264 9642.