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Research & Publications

Learn more about Saskatchewan's past through the Heritage Conservation Branch's publications and research reports listed below.

Publications

A Map of Saskatchewan Archaeology - learn more about archaeology in Saskatchewan with this full-colour, double-sided poster.

Celebrating 100 Years of Heart! - produced for Saskatchewan's Centennial in 2005, this brochure highlights a few of the many historic places which are an essential and irreplaceable part of our collective past and the hearts and souls of our communities.

Conserving Your Historic Places: A Guide for Communities - provides an overview of the heritage conservation process in Saskatchewan.

Developing Your Heritage Inventory: A Guide for Communities - a guide to assist communities in creating inventories of their local historic places.

Municipal Heritage Property Designation Guide - outlines the key steps involved in municipal designation, answers common questions, and offers suggestions on how to make designation and heritage property management as easy as possible.

Creating Community Heritage Programs: A Guide for Municipalities - helps local governments build effective heritage conservation programs.

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Grave Sites of Saskatchewan Premiers - commemorates the grave sites of Saskatchewan's first nine Premiers.

Historic Buildings: Modern Uses - profiles five very different historic buildings in Saskatchewan to illustrate the economic, environmental, cultural and social benefits of rehabilitating historic buildings for modern uses.

Heritage Benefits Brochures - The preservation, rehabilitation and ongoing use of historic buildings stimulates the economy, reduces our ecological footprint and preserves our cultural heritage. This series of brochures describes in detail the many economic, environmental and social benefits of heritage conservation:

Economic Benefits of Heritage Conservation

Environmental Benefits of Heritage Conservation

Social Benefits of Heritage Conservation

Petite Ville - 2010 is the Year of the Métis. Learn more about their contributions to Saskatchewan by reading about Petite Ville, a provincially designated village from the 1870s.

Provincial Heritage Property: Celebrating Saskatchewan's Centennial - featuring powerful images of Saskatchewan's Provincial Heritage Properties, a leather-bound copy of this booklet was presented to Queen Elizabeth II when she visited Saskatchewan in May 2005.

Visitor's Guide to Heritage Sites of a Special Nature - Sites of a Special Nature (SSNs) are considered especially significant and are afforded special protection under The Heritage Property Act. SSNs include burials, rock art, medicine wheels, boulder effigies and other boulder monuments. There are specific policies regarding the treatment of these fragile and unique sites.

Archaeological Burial Management Policy - this Ministry provides for the efficient and respectful handling of exposed human skeletal material not found in a recognized cemetery or otherwise identified in accordance with s.65 of The Heritage Property Act and the protocols and procedures set out in this policy.

Avocational Archaeology Field Manual - assists individuals, who are not professionally trained, interested in recording the past using conventional archaeological methods.

Research Reports

Architectural Heritage of Storey and Van Egmond - A report and inventory of the buildings designed by the prolific Saskatchewan architectural firm of Storey and Van Egmond.

Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits of Heritage Conservation - an annotated bibliography of more than one hundred articles and books on the topic of heritage conservation.

Heritage and Museums Market Study - conducted in 2006 by Sigma Analytics for the Museums Association of Saskatchewan in partnership with the Heritage Resources Branch.

Historic Places in Saskatchewan Municipalities - presents the results of a survey of Saskatchewan municipalities looking at the types of heritage activities that municipalities are involved in and the challenges they face in protecting and promoting historic places within their jurisdictions.

Saskatchewan Grain Elevator Study - in partnership with the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation, this report examines the history of the grain elevator in Saskatchewan and provides a list of the remaining wood grain elevators and modern inland grain terminals in the province.

Saskatchewan Road and Railway Bridges to 1950 - an inventory and historical overview of pre-1950 bridges in Saskatchewan.

Women's Organizations in Saskatchewan - examines the activities a number of women's organizations in Saskatchewan including the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, YWCA, Homemakers' Clubs, and The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.

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