Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Lifetime Volunteer Achievement

The Lifetime Volunteer Achievement award recognizes individuals who have made volunteer contributions to their community, region or the province over a period of 25 years or more in built, cultural and/or natural heritage conservation.

Adjudication criteria

The jury will assess all eligible applications based on the adjudication criteria for each award category and with consideration for alignment with standards, best practices, legislation, etc., relevant to the applicable heritage field.

The following are the main criteria used by the jury for the Lifetime Volunteer Achievement award:

• individual has proven his/her commitment to the field of heritage
• individual’s work has had a positive impact on the community, region or province

Who is eligible?

• self-nominations are eligible
• any organization or individual can be a nominator
• individual must be a resident of Ontario
• individual must have a minimum of 25 years of volunteer work in Ontario

Who is not eligible?

• incomplete nominations will not be considered — at least one completed reference from a relevant organization or community member must be provided for the application to be considered complete
• staff and Board members of the Ontario Heritage Trust and their immediate families are not eligible
• posthumous nominations are not eligible

Please direct questions to recognition@heritagetrust.on.ca.