https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/discussing-heritage-the-2024heritage-conservation-branch-winter-webinar-series-historic-places---living-places Throughout March the Heritage Conservation Branch of the Ministry of Culture, Heritage and Sport held the 2024 Heritage Conservation Branch Winter Webinar Series: Historic Places - Living Places, a series of three webinars discussing heritage places in Saskatchewan. They were attended by people from across Saskatchewan and Canada.  I was able to attend all three webinars, and commend the... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/northern-dialogues Kristin Catherwood Mantta, Director of Living HeritageThis coming Thursday, February 29th, I will be moderating a webinar on Living Heritage and Sustainable Livelihoods with my UNESCO Co-Chair, Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville from the University of Northern British Columbia. For more information about the Chair, you can visit our website here.The webinar is part of a series in support of a SSHRC... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/moving-towards-heritage-as-process By Vanessa Mathews, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Univeristy of ReginaI work at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, teaching and researching across a broad array of interests and specializations (housing, heritage, adaptive reuse, sustainability, and urban change). Over the past decade, the concept of heritage has entered into and out of... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/saskatchewan-masonry-institute---a-heritage-awards-sponsor-profile By David Siebert, ResearcherToday, we are profiling a key sponsor for the 2023 Heritage Awards program, the Saskatchewan Masonry Institute (SMI). SMI is a voice for the masonry sector in Saskatchewan, and its members cover the breadth of the sector, from the masons working on buildings around the province to suppliers and producers who quarry and fabricate blocks.We spoke with Ryan Leech, current... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/the-continuing-economic-relevance-of-saskatchewans-grain-elevators By Isaac Farrell, Student ResearcherAs I noted in my last blog post, grain elevators are an important symbol of the Prairies and of Saskatchewan in particular, which was once home to over 3,300 elevators. Most communities in the province had more than one elevator at some point, and the number of elevators a town had could spark friendly competition with neighbouring communities, with several... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/covid-19-culture-reflections-culture-in-practice-and-the-everyday By Nicholas Antonini, Student Researcher[More than three years after Covid-19 upended our lives personally and collectively, we decided to return to a documentation project from the first wave of the pandemic to see what the participants were thinking and feeling at that time. Our summer research intern, Nicholas Antonini’s codified and analyzed the themes present in the 35 interviews that... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/fostering-food-security-through-local-cultures By Nicholas Antonini, Student Researcher 2023Over the past year, the research team involved with The Saskatchewan Food, Culture and Heritage Survey has been working on another research project titled, “Fostering Food Security Through Local Cultures.” This project is conducted through partnership between Heritage Saskatchewan, the University of Regina, and the Royal Saskatchewan... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/reflections-on-wooden-grain-elevators By Isaac Farrell, Summer Researcher 2023Strong personal place attachments to former local hotspots. Shared senses of settler heritage and rural community histories. Friendships and camaraderie developed between farmers and agents through countless interactions in and around the local elevator(s). Memories of childhood and of people and places that are now long gone. These are but a handful of the... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/reflections-on-the-2023-heritage-fairs-season By Katherine Gilks, Education/Outreach CoordinatorWell, we have come to the end of another Heritage Fairs season! The 2023 Provincial Heritage Fair took place on Wednesday, June 14, at Government House in Regina. (Photos will be up on our website by the end of June.) There, for the second time in person since the Covid-19 pandemic, we gathered to celebrate the students and their wonderful projects... https://heritagesask.ca/about-us/news/blog/refreshing-our-awards-program-the-new-and-old Last year, we made the hard decision to cancel our 2022 Awards program. But as you may have heard, the Awards will be back this year, with a ceremony at Government House on November 8, 2023. While Heritage Saskatchewan isn’t the only heritage organisation in Canada that has found it necessary to rethink how best to celebrate work in the heritage field in the past few years, we...