Punjabi Market wins Vancouver’s Heritage Award

Outstanding efforts to preserve and sustain our city’s cultural heritage were recognized at the 2023 Vancouver Heritage Awards ceremony.
Punjabi Market Revitalization received Heritage Award for Outstanding Achievement under Living Heritage for exemplary multigenerational community engagement and partnerships, and excellence in placemaking through art and celebrations.
The Heritage Awards were presented for achievements in three categories. The Living Heritage awards were given for projects or initiatives that highlight the self-expressed heritage of Vancouver’s communities, or for projects that support reconciliation, cultural redress, or safeguarding or regeneration of living heritage.
Heritage Conservation awards were given for the restoration, rehabilitation, adaptive re-use or continued maintenance of buildings, structures, cultural landscapes or other natural features, including seismic or sustainability upgrades. Hollywood Theatre, 3123 West Broadway; St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church, 1012 Nelson Street and Sun Tower, 128 West Pender Street won Outstanding Achievement in this category.
Education and Awareness awards were given for the use of a publication, exhibit, activity, social media, or website to promote tangible or intangible heritage, or celebrate diverse cultures and histories. Chinatown Storytelling Centre won Outstanding Achievement in this category.
The Heritage Awards acknowledge and celebrate the different facets of heritage in Vancouver that are reflected not only in historic buildings and places, but also through intangible heritage and the self-expressed heritage of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh Nations, Urban Indigenous Peoples, and the many cultures that enrich our city.