About
Mountain Heritage is founded with over 20 years of hands on experience completing heritage and museum projects.
We have direct access to a variety of expert consultants and contractors on an as needed basis.
It is our goal to see your heritage or museum based project reach successful completion.
We have direct access to a variety of expert consultants and contractors on an as needed basis.
It is our goal to see your heritage or museum based project reach successful completion.
Susan Medville, M.A., member of Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals is the Principal of Mountain Heritage. She is a historian, cultural resource specialist and heritage and museum planner.
For the past few years she has served as a heritage consultant for the Squamish Lillooet Regional District, Area A, working with the remote community to manage their many heritage resources. During this time period she has also worked as a researcher with Harold Kalman, on his books Heritage Planning, Principles and Process and Exploring Vancouver, The Essential Architectural Guide. She worked as an associate of Commonwealth Historic Resource Management from 2005 through 2010. Past projects with Commonwealth included cultural and heritage planning, completing numerous Statements of Significance, historical research and exhibit design. She graduated from Colorado State University’s Public History Program, with an emphasis in Historic Preservation and course work in environmental history. She has worked on a number of projects documenting historic buildings and mining sites in and around mountain towns such as Aspen, Durango, and Silverton, Colorado. Among the sites that she assisted in nominating to the National Register of Historic Places – parallel to nomination to the Canadian and BC Registers of Historic Places – are the Alpine Tunnel and the Crested Butte Denver & Rio Grande Depot. In 1999 she became the Director and Curator of the Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum in Crested Butte, Colorado, where she oversaw the expansion of the Museum from start to finish to a more prominent location in a historic structure on the town’s main street. She resides in Pemberton, BC. |
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