Canada's Top 10 endangered historic sites

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Canada's Top 10 endangered historic sites

Postby newsposter » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:53 am

February 19, Family Day in Alberta, is national Heritage Day.

Information on the day from the Heritage Canada Foundation:
http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/h_day.html

Heritage Canada Foundation Releases Canada’s Endangered Places Report Card; the Lists of the Top Ten Most Endangered Places and Worst Losses; and its new Heritage Day eCards – Communiqué

OTTAWA, ON – February 19, 2007 – The Heritage Canada Foundation (HCF) has chosen today, Heritage Day, to release Canada’s Endangered Places Report Card for 2006.

The report card includes the top ten most endangered places and worst losses lists, and takes stock of the federal government’s performance in 2006. Report Card here:
http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/news/ ... a_2007.pdf

“It’s been a tumultuous year,” stated Natalie Bull, HCF’s executive director. “With the loss of the federal Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive Fund and the Auditor General’s second warning that heritage buildings are still at risk, the federal government once again gets a failing grade in its overall commitment to heritage conservation.”

The "Top Ten" list of endangered places in Canada include British Columbia’s Art Deco Vogue Theatre in Vancouver and Creston’s downtown grain elevators; the modernist Central Pentecostal Tabernacle in Edmonton, Alberta; the Royal Canadian Legion building in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Winnipeg, Manitoba’s King Building; the former lamp factory at 48 Abell Street in Toronto, Ontario; the historic Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine House in Montréal, Quebec; Nova Scotia’s Seal Island lighthouse; the town of Tilting—a national historic site—in Newfoundland; and the Yukon’s Herschel Island, an important cultural heritage site threatened by conditions attributed to global climate change.
More on the Top 10 here: http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/news/ ... en_pop.htm

Topping the list of the worst losses for the past year is the Officers’ Mess and Quarters at Work Point, Esquimalt, British Columbia. Designated a federally ‘Recognized’ heritage building it was ‘deconstructed’ last spring.

The Work Point site joins other landmark heritage buildings that are now gone: the Lessard House, located in the historic Oliver district of Edmonton; the famous Inn on the Park hotel in Toronto; and St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral, lost to arson and demolition in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
More on the worst losses here: http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/news/ ... es_pop.htm

This year, the Heritage Canada Foundation’s Heritage Day theme features Places for People: Heritage of Every Day. It includes places that can be as familiar as the corner store, main street bakery, or church on the Prairies. To access HCF’s online guide to 12 selected heritage sites, visit www.heritagecanada.org/eng/h_day.html

In order to broaden the reach of the heritage day message HCF has developed four eCards to be shared with friends and colleagues. To send a Heritage Day eCard click www.heritagecanada.org/eng/heritageday.cfm
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