Heritage links

The Association of Friends
of the Billings Estate Museum

L’association des amis
du Musée du domaine Billings

▪ We must act now. Our cultural heritage is disappearing . . . . Once a piece of our history is lost, it’s lost forever.

— Sheila Fraser, Auditor General’s Report, Ch.6, February 13, 2004.
On the state of Heritage preservation in Canada.

▪ Have we no pride?

— Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen, February 13, 2004.
A response to the City council at the time.

▪ . . . in order to remember our history, you first have to preserve it.

— Editorial, Ottawa Citizen, July 3, 2004, p. B6.
An editorial response.

▪ The purpose of preservation is therefore, in part, the exercise in the preservation of memory, both individual in the case of past life styles, and collective in the sense of past culture.

— Chris Borgal, President , Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, in his June 2003 address
to the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Billings Estate Museum.
A well-researched talk on the historic and cultural importance of Heritage preservation.