Rossland Heritage Commission
The Rossland Heritage Commission was created in 2009 through a City of Rossland bylaw. The Commission’s mandate is to educate those within and beyond our community on the unique heritage of Rossland and to maintain the Rossland Heritage Register. The Heritage Register identifies buildings, sites and neighbourhoods valued by the community for their historic significance in telling the story of Rossland’s development, particularly of the gold mining era, 1895 - 1929. Once a Statement of Significance is completed for a heritage building or site, the information is provided to Heritage BC, who then makes this information available on the provincial heritage site and the national heritage site - historicplaces.ca The Heritage Commission endeavors to promote public awareness and appreciation for Rossland’s many heritage places that are an important part of our visual and built environment and that help to define our community’s identity. This is done through maintenance of the heritagerossland.com website, updating and maintaining of the Rossland Heritage Register, providing and updating building plaques for our heritage buildings, signage for heritage sites and relevant publications.
The Heritage Commission has published several books, Cemeteries of Rossland; Rossland Heritage Homes; Ross Thompson, Founding Father of Rossland by Ron Shearer; Chicanery, Civility and Celebrations: Tales of Early Rossland by Ron Shearer; and reprinted the First History of Rossland, B.C; written by Harold Kingsmill in 1897. We hope anyone interested in the history and heritage of Rossland finds these publications provide insight into the discovery and development of our great city.
This website reflects the work of the Rossland Heritage Commission in compiling information about our heritage resources. The buildings, sites and neighbourhoods are identified with signage and where appropriate archival pictures. The Heritage Commission acknowledges funding provided by the City of Rossland as well as the dedicated group of volunteers who spend endless hours researching our heritage.
We acknowledge and respect that we live, work, and play on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the sngaytskstx (Sinixt) People and honor all other Indigenous people who walked on and cared for these lands before us and continue to do so.
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