Canadian Register of Historic Places
Type of site | Online database of historic sites in Canada |
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Available in | |
Owner | Administered by Parks Canada |
URL | www |
Commercial | No |
Registration | No |
Launched | May 2004 |
Current status | Online |
The Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP;
Background
The Canadian Register of Historic Places was created as part of Canada's "Historic Places Initiative". Commencing in 2001, the Historic Places Initiative was a collaboration between the federal, provincial and territorial governments to improve protection of the country's historic sites and to "promote and foster a culture of heritage conservation in Canada". The CRHP and the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada (a common set of guidelines for the restoration and rehabilitation of historic sites throughout Canada) are the two major tools developed to assist in achieving the initiative's main objectives.[1][2]
The CRHP was officially launched in May 2004 as a single access point for members of the public to learn about historic sites across Canada.[1][3] It is a work in progress, and as of 2011, the CRHP included approximately 12,300 of the country's estimated 17,000 designated historic sites.[4]
The directory was designed to be both flexible, in order to accommodate information from the wide range of heritage authorities across the country, as well as uniform, so as to provide a consistent means of searching and a consistent form of documentation for sites regardless of location or heritage designation. Historic sites that have been recognized by more than one level of government, often for differing reasons, are also linked in the directory. For example, the CRHP contains two listings for the
Inclusion in the register
The Canadian Register of Historic Places does not have its own criteria for inclusion in the directory, but relies entirely on federal, provincial, territorial and local designations of historic sites (reflective of the community-based approach to heritage conservation in Canada). A site must be designated by one or more of these levels of government in order to be eligible for inclusion in the CRHP.[8] The CRHP does not replace existing heritage designation programs already in place across the country, nor does it replace local, provincial, territorial and federal databases, some of which are also available online.[5]
The CRHP is an information tool, not a designatory or regulatory mechanism. Inclusion in the directory does not confer historic or legal status, nor does it impose legal restrictions or obligations.[5] Inclusion also does not affect how the designating level of government manages its own heritage designations or policies.[9]
Given that the CRHP is publicly available on the internet and provides locations details for historic sites, a number of sensitive or sacred
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Canadian Register of Historic Places - Writing Statements of Significance" (PDF). Historic Places Program Branch, Parks Canada. November 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ "The Historic Places Initiative". Parks Canada. 2003. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ Heritage Canada. Archived from the original(PDF) on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ "Searching the Canadian Register". Canadian Register of Historic Places. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ a b c Cunningham, Ellen (Fall 2005). "Connecting Heritage Sites Across the Country: The Canadian Register of Historic Places" (PDF). Hēritage, the Magazine of Heritage Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ Halifax Public Gardens National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ Public Gardens. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ Shannon Ricketts "Who Decides? The Canadian Register of Historic Places" in Heritage: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation, Vol IX, No 3, Summer 2006: page 50-55.
- ^ "What is the Canadian Register of Historic Places?". Historic Resources Branch, Tourism, Culture, Heritage, Sport and Consumer Protection, Government of Manitoba. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.