About Our COLLECTIONS
What Is Heritage?
Heritage is the stories, knowledge, customs, social practices, objects, rituals, places, performing arts, songs, designs, and festive events handed down between generations that define or contribute to a person's or a group's identity, history, worldview, and wellbeing. Heritage is safeguarded through transmission.
What We CollecT
Heritage not only celebrates our past accomplishments but also rejoices in the values, achievements, and experiences of the people all around us today. Coquitlam Heritage is actively collecting objects, stories, and digital material from our local community to celebrate what makes us who we were, who we are today and who we will become in the future.
Coquitlam Heritage aims to preserve, honour, and promote our local heritage. We began collecting items focussed on life in Coquitlam from the period 1890 to 1930 to fit with the displays at Mackin House. In the early 2000s we branched out into the wonderful world of toys and other collectibles with the hopes of creating a toy museum.
Today we have expanded our mandate. We collect a wide variety of material to enhance our current collections while expanding into other areas to document and preserve the experience of our community members for future generations. We also collect items for our education collection so that our guests can interact with, and touch pieces of the past.