By Pepper Parr
July 30th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
The plot thickens.
In a CLOSED session, the Halton Region Council decided to close the Heritage Services Unit in January of 2026.
The Heritage people oversee a collection of 30,00 items.
About 18,400 “objects”: Tools, uniforms and clothing, furnishings, personal and medical items, communication devices, natural history specimens, archeological finds, and artworks.
About 3,100 photographs.
About 13,000 archival materials: Maps, documents and other materials.
Ground floor is used for meetings and events, museum is on the second floor.
The 2023 budget for Heritage Services $630,000; in 2024 it was $657,000, and in 2025 it was $682,000
These amounts were not a strain on a Regional budget of $1.2 billion.
There are three full-time Heritage staff members, and one vacant full-time position. There are no part time Heritage staff.
Other than the cost of storing the collection, there do not appear to be any other costs.
So why shut it down? And why do it in secret?
Bits and pieces of information are beginning to come in.
This is a story worth following.
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