Do you know an important building in your neighbourhood that has been abandoned or is in poor shape? An exceptional landscape that is at risk of being radically transformed?
Memento is the tool you can use to inform the public, through citizen alerts, and to work with others to promote the heritage of our metropolis.
Here are a few guidelines for writing your alert:
- Clearly identify the site: To be able to clearly locate the threatened site on a map, it is important to accurately identify the address of the building in question. If you are writing an alert for a threatened landscape, provide a nearby address in Step 2 on the form, and then specify the roads that border the site in the descriptive text in Step 3.
- Clearly identify the threats: The actions to take will differ depending on the type of threat. Memento’s interactive map makes it possible to refine a search by type of threat. Therefore, it is essential to clearly identify the risks to the building or landscape in your citizen alert.
- Provide a lot of detail: While optional, the fourth and final step on the alert form gives you the opportunity to enrich the content of your alert. You can provide the municipality or borough for the site you are reporting, the architect or designer, the year of its construction, etc. A detailed citizen alert provides better context, is more effective in raising public interest and opens the door to concerted mobilization for its protection and enhancement.
- Share with your networks: Heritage is everyone’s affair, but not everyone is as concerned about these issues. All of the sites listed in Memento have share functions for social networks. Whether it is for a citizen alert, a Heritage Montreal priority site or an InspirAction, do not hesitate to share these emblematic sites in the metropolitan area with those around you.