PEI Museum Heritage Awards
Due to the Canada Post strike, we recommend dropping off your application at the address below or submitting it online.
If you have already mailed your application, please call (902) 368-6600 to confirm it was received.
Applications are now open for the 2025 Heritage Awards!
September 30 to November 29, 2024
The PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation Heritage Awards are presented each year to individuals or groups in recognition of their contribution to heritage on Prince Edward Island. If you know someone who deserves a Heritage Award, we would love to hear from you!
Online Form
Instructions are included in the form.
Mail and in-person submissions
Forms can also be delivered in person or mailed to the address below. Copies of the form can be picked up at the same address.
For in-person submissions, please check Beaconsfield Historic House's hours of operation.
PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation
Attn: Heritage Awards
2 Kent Street
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 1M6
E-mail submissions
Forms can also be sent by e-mail in PDF form to mhpei@gov.pe.ca Subject line: Heritage Awards
Heritage Award Categories
- Heritage Recognition Awards: To individuals and groups who have made outstanding contributions to the knowledge and understanding of any aspect of the heritage of Prince Edward Island. Heritage includes human and natural history. It encompasses architectural preservation, folklore, culture, archives, archaeology, genealogy, and history in all forms. These awards will recognize original and important contributions to the preservation and/or interpretation of significant aspects of the heritage of Prince Edward Island.
- Award of Honour: To an individual or institution for outstanding contributions and demonstration of a high level of achievement in the areas of research, education, or preservation as they relate to the human or natural history of Prince Edward Island. The Award of Honour recognizes an individual's lifetime or career achievements, or an institution's consistently high level of contributions over long periods of time.
- Architectural Conservation Project of the Year: To an individual or group responsible for an architectural conservation project on Prince Edward Island that demonstrates a strong awareness of heritage values.
- Boyde Beck Memorial Award: Awarded to a group or individual for outstanding contributions through the sharing of oral history and storytelling of Prince Edward Island.
- Catherine Hennessey Heritage Activism Awards (2): One awarded to a member of the public age 26 and older, and one to a young adult 25 and younger, who have demonstrated impactful community activism around heritage, in tangible projects including digital initiatives.
- Irene Rogers Architectural Award: To an individual or group for outstanding, long-time contribution to the architectural heritage of Prince Edward Island.
- Mary Cornfoot Brehaut Genealogy Award: To an individual or group for outstanding contribution to genealogy and family history on Prince Edward Island.
- Natural Heritage Activity Award: To a volunteer who has made a significant contribution to the preservation or promotion of the natural heritage of Prince Edward Island.
- Publications of the Year (2): Each award is given to an individual or group that has authored a publication in the past year. One award is for a research publication that has made a significant contribution to the understanding of any aspect of the heritage of Prince Edward Island. The second award is for a creative publication that contributes to the awareness and understanding of any aspect of heritage on Prince Edward Island.
- Volunteer of the Year: To a volunteer who has made a significant contribution to the preservation or promotion of the heritage of Prince Edward Island.
- Wendell Boyle Performance Award: To a group or individual for outstanding contribution in a performance medium such as music or theatre that highlights or interprets the history of Prince Edward Island.
Thank you for your nomination.
For general information call us at (902) 368-6600
Congratulations to the 2024 Heritage Awards recipients!
Find out more about the award winners here.
View photos of the award ceremony here.