Heritage Review Board

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Membership

The current membership of the Board is as follows:

Board Members

  • Vanessa Bass
  • Barb Jardine
  • Merrill Fullerton (Town Councillor)
  • Charlie Scobie (Chair)
  • David Stewart (Mount Allison University)
  • Phyllis Stopps (Vice-Chair)
  • Rob Summerby-Murray

Resource Persons

  • Angela Hastie: Secretary, Community Economic Development & Tourism
  • Warren Maddox: Director, Community Economic Development & Tourism
  • Chief Administrative Officer (to be appointed)

The Town of Sackville's Heritage Review Board was appointed in December 2004 under the terms of the New Brunswick Municipal Heritage Preservation Act (1978). The Board's mandate includes advising the Town Council on heritage matters, researching local heritage architecture and history, providing a heritage educational program, and providing advice to property owners on heritage preservation.

In December 2006 the Board presented a report to Council recommending the designation of two Heritage Preservation Areas and the adoption of a Heritage By-Law. Currently the Town is in conversation with the Province regarding proposed new heritage legislation.

Why Heritage Preservation?

Heritage preservation is important because

  • it generates community pride
  • it contributes to the community's quality of life, making Sackville an attractive place in which to live, work, teach, study and retire
  • it is a key component to tourism growth
  • it can help promote economic development

Heritage Information/Education

The Heritage Review Board has sponsored the Dormers and Doorways series of public presentations, including:

  • 16 February 2006: Heritage Architecture in Sackville: Learning to 'Read' a Heritage Building, Jim Bezanson, Heritage Officer, City of Saint John
  • 24 October 2007: Preserving the Past: Building for the Future — Two Recent Heritage Renewal Projects. Trueman House, Mount Allison University: Rob MacCormack, Jim Reardon, Paul Jeffs. CenterBeam Place, Saint John: John Irving (Commercial Properties Ltd.)
  • Thursday, 24 April 2008, 7:30 pm: Practical Tips for Maintaining/Restoring An Older Home, Wu Centre, Mount Allison University, 113 Dunn Building, corner of York and Salem. All welcome.

Canadian Register of Historic Places

The Board has sponsored research into the historical and architectural significance of selected heritage properties in Sackville. With the help of two provincial grants, adminsitered through the provincial Heritage Branch, a Sackville Register of Historic Places was compiled for the Board by Phyllis Stopps, in two stages, in 2005 and 2006. Some 50 sites are included in the Register and almost all of them have now been added to the national Canadian Register of Historic Places and can be accessed at the Canada's Historic Places web site.

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