A 2011 decision on how to spend $20,000 in Municipal Heritage Partnership funding has forced the Town of High River to have an Historical Context study done.

Usually communities use the grant to fund the study but the Town moved forward with its Heritage Inventory Project instead. But to get future funding the study would be needed.

Parks and Culture Coordinator, Sarah Mitchell says the report reveals essentially what made the town what it is today.

"Trying to capture it how it was historically as well as how that's impacted life today, so we also include things like the development of schools in the area, transportation systems through the area, local industries, things of that nature," Mitchell says.

The report was put together by Heritage Committee chair Kyle Jantzen, who's also a Professor at Ambrose University, and his students along with the Museum of the Highwood.

Consultants told the Town that because funding for such studies has ended it would have cost $12,000 to $14,000 to have it done without the school's help.