Moose Jaw City Council voted in favour of considering a one-year pilot heritage plaques/QR code project that was initiated by the Heritage Advisory Committee. 

During the Heritage Advisory Committee’s meeting on March 20, they received a presentation from Jessica McNaughton about her business memoryKPR, which helps individuals and businesses save, store, protect information and tell stories. 

The Heritage Advisory Committee put forward a motion to city council on Monday night to consider memoryKPR’s services for the QR code program. 

The QR code project would see QR codes installed on the heritage plaques found around the city. When scanned with your phone, the QR code will send you to the city’s website for more information. 

“The Heritage Advisory Committee has been working for well over a year on collating history via videos and information and archives to have it placed on our city’s website with additional information for all of the plaques that you see around the city,” said Coun. Crystal Froese, who also sits on the Heritage Advisory Committee. 

The motion put forward to city council said the Heritage Advisory Committee would initially fund the pilot project. 

Coun. Dawn Luhning did express some concerns about how much the project would cost moving forward. 

Froese replied that the pilot project would come at a minimal cost if it moves past the one-year pilot project. 

“She (McNaughton) actually quoted us $500 for this pilot project to try it for a year, and that is why the Heritage Advisory Committee wanted to recommend that they would fund it as a pilot project for the first year,” said Froese. 

City council also agreed to have a representative from memoryKPR present to city council at the next available meeting.