2024 Competition Timeline

April 18 – May 6
People across Canada cast votes for the Next Great Save.

May 7
The National Trust for Canada and Ecclesiastical Insurance announce the winners of the Next Great Save competition.

About our Title Sponsor

Ecclesiastical Insurance is an award-winning commercial insurance company and a proud part of the Benefact Group – a charity owned, international family of financial service companies that gives all available profits to charity and good causes. Ecclesiastical provides specialist insurance solutions to the arts, culture and heritage community, faith organizations, retirement living, educational institutions, registered charities, and non-profit organizations. Protecting Canada’s historic places, both large and small, with regional offices in Dartmouth, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.

What is the competition all about?

The Next Great Save competition aims to advance the preservation and use of heritage sites by providing public engagement and financial support to help them complete their conservation project. Registered charities or non-profits with plans to protect, adapt, renew, or improve a heritage place and allow the building to play a vibrant role that enhances community life can submit a completed application form with the goal of becoming a finalist.

Get to know the finalists for 2024

The Next Great Save competition helps the finalists engage a broader public to spark an interest in the future of a heritage place.  Each finalist will promote their Next Great Save project to their communities and to the Canadian public.

Get inspired by their stories and vote to save the places you love!

• Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station – Murray Harbour, PE
• Cité-des-Hospitalières – Montréal, QC
• Greenly Island Houses – Blanc-Sablon, QC
• LaSalle Theatre – Kirkland Lake, ON
• Mon Keang School – Vancouver, BC
• Nanton Grain Elevator – Nanton, AB
• Old St. Thomas Church – Moose Factory, ON
• Our Lady of Mercy Heritage Church – Aguathuna, NL
• Roxy Theatre – Coleman, Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, AB
• St. Andrew’s Lodge – Qualicum Beach, BC
• St. John’s Centre for the Arts – Arichat, NS
• Welland Central Fire Station – Welland, ON

What is a Next Great Save?

A Next Great Save is a project that successfully protects, adapts, renews or improves a heritage place in a way that extends its useful life, and more, such as:

• responds to new pressures and community needs such as climate change or affordable housing;
• reduces environmental impact; and/or
• reflects diversity and inclusion of new voices and new stories.

Hear about the impact the Next Great Save competition had at Heritage Abbotsford

“Our participation in the Next Great Save Competition was a game-changing experience. It was the networking event of all networking events for us. The contest created an opportunity to get the backing of other organizations and funders who promoted our project. Being one of the ten sites selected across the country to participate by the National Trust meant that weight was given to the project and we started to receive funding from places that had not considered us in the past. We actually managed to double our annual budget for the year.”  Christina Reid, Heritage Abbotsford.

2023 Next Great Save

The first Next Great Save competition took place October 22, 2022 – February 23, 2023

Winners

• $50,000 Grand Prize – Duncan Train Station – Duncan, BC
• $10,000 Second Prize – La Vieille Maison – Meteghan, NS
• $5,000 Third Prize – Historic 1916 CNR Hope Station – Hope, BC

Finalists

• Duncan Train Station – Duncan, BC
• Forward House – Iroquois, ON
• Historic 1916 CNR Hope Station– Hope, BC
• Hudgin Log House – Milford, ON
• La Vieille Maison – Meteghan, NS
• Rossland Drill Hall – Rossland, BC
• St. John’s Stone Church – Saint John, NB
• Swallowtail Lighthouse – Grand Manan, NB
• The Old Council House – Hagersville, ON
• Turner House – Abbotsford, BC

Learn More

2024 Eligibility Requirements

2024 Rules and Regulations

Ecclesiastical is deeply committed to protecting the needs of organizations that enrich the lives of others; to preserving Canada’s distinct communities, cultures, and history; and to supporting initiatives that help improve the lives of people in need. The National Trust for Canada has a long-standing relationship with Ecclesiastical Insurance – our most faithful sponsor – and we are excited to be working with them to fund the Next Great Save!

All inquiries and media requests NextGreatSave@Nationaltrustcanada.ca