2025 Heritage Awards
Islanders recognized for preservation and promotion efforts
Several Islanders and local organizations have been recognized for their efforts in preserving and promoting Prince Edward Island’s heritage.
The PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, along with Lieutenant Governor Dr. Wassim Salamoun, presented the 2025 Heritage Awards to 20 individuals and eight groups in a variety of categories at Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown recently.
The Heritage Recognition Award winners included: Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative; Jennifer Stenhouse; Hanna Wylie; Confederation Centre of the Arts; Parks Canada; Benevolent Irish Society of PEI; Town of Stratford Subcommittee; Sylvia MacPhail and Larry Gaudet; Jacques and Janet Cyr; Kara Griffin; Island Nature Trust; Shawn Larson; Carter Jeffery and Arnold Smith; Dr. Allan MacRae; and Denis Gallant.
Other recipients include: Claude Henry Arsenault, Volunteer of the Year; Julie-Lynn Zahavich, Natural Heritage Activity Award; Dr. Alan MacEachern, Academic Publication of the Year; Barbara Palmer Rousseau, Creative Publication of the Year; Heritage Players, Wendell Boyle Performance Award; Caeley Currie, Boyde Beck Memorial Award; MacKenzie Cutcliffe, Catherine Hennessey Heritage Activism Award; Jenny McQuaid, Mary Cornfoot Brehaut Genealogy Award; Under the Spire, Architectural Conservation Project of the Year; and Doug Sobey, Award of Honour.
“These award winners are proof that heritage is not just about the past,” says PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation executive director, Matthew McRae. “It’s a living legacy and all of us benefit from it, right here in the present. Our communities are better when we actively cherish and preserve our heritage, as these inspiring people do every day.”