2025 Award recipients

This award recognizes their community-led work in preserving Vancouver’s remaining Douglas fir forest, reintroducing native plants, and stewarding this ecological and cultural space.

This award recognizes their efforts to honour Chinese Canadian veterans through 500 street banners that celebrate their contributions to Canada’s military history.

This award recognizes their work chronicling the forgotten history of Vancouver's nightlife through posters, photographs, and stories of the famous—and infamous—people and places that defined the city after dark.

This award recognizes their preservation of character-defining features and exemplary adaptive reuse of a heritage building, highlighted by the integration of original public artworks.

This award recognizes their rehabilitation of the heritage building, preserving its Gothic Revival architectural features and heritage value, while upgrading it for continued community use.

This award recognizes their restoration of the home’s historic street presence through structural and seismic upgrades and the reinstatement of lost heritage features.

This award recognizes their work in preserving and interpreting Chinese Canadian experiences through exhibitions, oral histories, collections, and programs—including the inaugural exhibition Odysseys and Migration—while advancing reconciliation, cultural redress, and partnerships with Indigenous communities.