Community Design Strategies Inc. brought the final report for High River's Heritage Inventory Project to last week's council meeting.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass says it's a great project that shows the town cares about its heritage.

"I think it's fantastic. We've been criticized with a couple of things in the past, Wallace house being one, that we're not sensitive enough to heritage projects, this council isn't. But we absolutely are."

Snodgrass says the report gives an education to homeowners as to what's availible with a historical designation.

He says it's now up to those homeowners to apply.

"So what this did was just identify some pieces that we think are very important heritage structures in High River. It's now up to the owners to come and apply for those historical site designations so that they can access the government grants that come with that."

Snodgrass says age is not the only factor to determine whether a building is historic.

"Important to note that just because something is old in this town does not mean it's historic or it will ever get historical designations. That's what this report does is identifies these buildings that we value and have the qualities that would get the designation.

He says for example the water tower in town would never get a historical site designation.