The City of Canada Bay Heritage Society Inc. is a charity whose purpose is to advance culture. Our aims are:
To foster interest in and inform the community of the heritage, historically and culturally, of the City of Canada Bay LGA.
To promote the preservation, restoration, conservation, maintenance and use of places, buildings, records and objects of historic, architectural, cultural and environmental significance within the area. In particular the Walker Estates – Yaralla, Rivendell (Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital) and the Yaralla Cottages.
To acquire and preserve for the community, books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, oral histories, records objects and anything else collectable that has a bearing on the stories of the people of the area.
To establish and conduct a social history museum telling the stories of the area and its people in time.
To encourage the study, research and documentation of the heritage, historical and cultural, of the area.