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The Rideau Heritage Initiative (RHI): A Case Study
In 2006, the Ontario Ministry of Culture’s (MCL) Historic Places Initiative (HPI) and Carleton University’s School of Canadian Studies collaborated on a ground breaking four-month pilot project to raise awareness and provide support for heritage stewardship of the Rideau Canal.
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In 2006, the Ontario Ministry of Culture’s (MCL) Historic Places Initiative (HPI) and Carleton University’s School of Canadian Studies collaborated on a ground breaking four-month pilot project to raise awareness and provide support for heritage stewardship of the Rideau Canal. Motivated by the 175th anniversary of the Rideau Canal and its ongoing UNESCO World Heritage nomination, six Canadian Studies graduate students visited the 12 municipalities within the Rideau Canal Corridor. Government representatives, community members and students mutually exchanged ideas and skills which created insights into potential impediments — as well as potential opportunities — for the further implementation of the HPI in rural areas. The team viewed a diversity of historical resources from homestead cabins, Aboriginal flint-mines, 1920’s boathouses and stone foundries, along with 1950s era drive-ins. The HPI served as a tool and a space for dialogue, where local communities discussed incentive-based heritage conservation and formal recognition of non-designated heritage properties. To that end, 137 municipally-designated heritage properties were added to the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP), an on-line registry of heritage designations. The project is a rare model of a shared federal–provincial–territorial partnership that can foster federal commitment to these places.
For more information on the RHI case study, please read our In Focus online paper entitiled - "To Save a Butterfly, Must One Kill It?: The Historic Places Initiative in a Rural Context."
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Creator(s)
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Canadian Cultural Observatory
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Source Location
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Canada
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Date Published
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2007-06-15
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Language
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Bilingual
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Copyright Holder
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Canadian Cultural Observatory
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