Across Western Canada, many culturally significant places—historic buildings, Indigenous heritage landscapes, industrial sites, and community-valued structures—are increasingly threatened by wildfire, flooding, climate instability, development pressures, and long-term neglect. Although many of these places remain undocumented or undesignated, they hold deep meaning for the communities and Nations connected to them. The Alberta Digital Heritage Archive (ADHA) was established in 2017 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a scalable, community-informed model for digital preservation across the region. Using terrestrial LiDAR, aerial photogrammetry, and other reality-capture tools, the ADHA curates high-resolution 3D datasets that support reconstruction, monitoring, and teaching applications. The ADHA is part of a rapidly expanding ecosystem of digital heritage work occurring throughout Western Canada.

This session invites contributions from British Columbia, Yukon, NWT and the Prairie Provinces that explore how digital technologies are being used across Western Canada to document, protect, and revitalize heritage resources. We welcome papers on LiDAR, photogrammetry, 3D modelling, remote sensing, VR/AR, database design, and related methods, with attention to community partnerships, Indigenous data governance (FAIR/CARE), methodological innovation, and the role of digital documentation in addressing growing heritage vulnerability.