An historic B.C. church will be the subject of the first program in a new television series.  Project:  Restoration is about saving Canada’s heritage, one building at a time. Each episode documents the hands-on restoration of an endangered but historically significant building. But this new series, say the promoters, isn’t just about the sentimental feelings for old-fashioned architecture:

It’s about the conflict, egos, headaches and high stakes of saving a piece of 
irreplaceable history from the wrecking ball, while trying to mix the right kind of plaster, match the right tone of milk paint or carve the right curve in a staircase  banister.  The dramatic backdrop is a primal battleground between old and new, 
novelty and conservation, demolition and salvation, refuse and re-use, private interest and common memory.

Hour One of the new series is about the Church of the Holy Cross at Skatin, B.C., which was the subject of the 2005 Heritage Week poster.  Completed in 1905, local First Nations craftsmen laboured for years on the finely worked wood details of this remarkable carpenter gothic style church.  A National Historic Site, the church is still a place of worship today.  After a flood in 2003 the building is in need of immediate conservation work.  The Heritage Legacy Fund contributed $25,000 in 2006.