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"The Heritage Health Index, the first comprehensive survey ever to assess the condition and preservation needs of U.S. collections, concludes that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of millions of irreplaceable artifacts. These findings were announced at a news conference in New York City on December 6 and are detailed in A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections. "
Creator(s): Heritage Preservation - The National Institute for Conservation | Date Published: 2005-12
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"The target has been to bring home a research and technological development (RTD) roadmap that outlines what may be expected in a future digital heritage space."
Creator(s): Guntram Geser and John Pereira (eds.) - DigiCult | Date Published: 2004-12
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"The Helsinki Agenda recognizes Finland’s pioneering role in media culture and arts, and in creating open access tools and accessible mobile communication technologies (software, technology and interfaces between information technology and culture)."
Creator(s): IFACCA and the Arts Council of Finland | Date Published: 2004-08-24
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"The research was conducted by a team of staff and contractors in the Canadian Community Economic Development Network from February to June 2004. A review of existing research and literature was carried out on the nature and typology of the social economy and its relationship to new media."
Creator(s): Rupert Downing, Canadian Community Economic Development Network | Date Published: 2004-08
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"We are pleased to provide the proceedings of the Conference of New Media Research Networks, held in Charlottetown, PE March 26 - 27, 2004."
Creator(s): Arts-Netlantic | Date Published: 2004-03-26
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"This paper is more in the nature of a series of reflections/questions concerning the developing issues & challenges, particularly from a policy perspective, in the ‘developed’ or ‘industrially advanced’ societies of Western Europe (WE) on the one hand and the immigrant-receiving ones of North America, Australia and New Zealand (NAANZ) on the other."
Creator(s): Dhiru Patel, Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002-11-21
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"Three years ago, the Department of Canadian Heritage and Parks Canada began a wide-ranging series of consultations on the best means to preserve and celebrate Canada's historic places."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002
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"Cultural preservation, like the conservation of our natural resources, depends upon political leadership, the resources of civil society, and the popular will."
Creator(s): Keith Donohue | Date Published: 2001-10
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"Popular interest in preservation is evident every day. It is seen in communities rallying around local historic sites, libraries, and museums campaigning to conserve their collections, volunteers surveying outdoor sculpture, and audiences appreciating traditional practices."
Creator(s): Center for Arts and Culture | Date Published: 2001-10
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"This study of heritage institutions in Canada provides a national profile of the sector, estimates the economic impact of the sector and goes beyond this traditional analysis to examine the socio-economic benefits of these institutions."
Creator(s): The Outspan Group Inc. | Date Published: 2001
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Projects & Programs |
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"Our aim is to develop a set of policy recommendations which governments, and NGOs can adopt prior to the outbreak of hostilities to avert the pillaging of priceless artifacts and the consequent irrecoverable loss of info about vanished civilizations"
Lead Managing Organization: Cultural Policy Centre - University of Chicago | Start Date: 2005
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General Reference |
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"WHIN is a clearing-house for information about the natural and cultural sites identified as being of "outstanding universal value" and inscribed on the World Heritage List by the Intergovernmental World Heritage Committee."
Creator(s): World Heritage Information Network (WHIN) | Date Published: 2006
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"In April 1983, City Council initiated a Heritage Conservation Program. Both Council and the Vancouver Heritage Commission (then known as the Heritage Advisory Committee) realized that a comprehensive management program was necessary to identify the city's heritage resources, to develop incentives to assist in the conservation of those resources, and to create a greater awareness and understanding of our built heritage. There are three main components to the Heritage Program."
Creator(s): City of Vancouver | Date Published: 2006
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Information Kit
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 2004-05-02
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"The following properties have been approved by the World Heritage Committee to be included on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The list currently contains 754 different properties as of June, 2003."
Creator(s): UNESCO World Heritage List | Date Published: 2003
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Guides & Case Studies |
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"A discussion paper prepared for The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program."
Creator(s): Randall Mason, University of Pennsylvania | Date Published: 2005-09
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Statistics |
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"These tables provide information on finances, attendance, personnel, area, weeks open, and operating hours of non-profit heritage institutions (museums, art galleries, archives, historic sites, exhibition centres, planetariums, observatories, aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums, conservatories) and parks (only those with interpretation programs) in Canada."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2006-07-26
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"April 2001 to March 2004"
Creator(s): Parks Canada | Date Published: 2004
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"This shows both the number of objects sent for and returned from conservation treatment over the last four years."
Creator(s): Parks Canada | Date Published: 2004
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"There is no monitoring system to ensure that owners of the properties obtain the required approvals before making alterations or selling the property, that alterations are carried out as planned, or that purchasers of stations continue to respect the heritage character of the station and obtain a designation for the site under provincial legislation."
Creator(s): Parks Canada | Date Published: 2004
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"Cultural Sector's Economic Contribution to Canada - Heritage."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage, Strategic Research and Analysis | Date Published: 2002-06
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Legislation & Regulations |
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"THE GENERAL CONFERENCE of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris from 17 October to 21 November 1972."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 1972
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Related Materials
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"The evolution of how heritage is understood and used in European societies is part of a wider change in the concept of culture itself...culture is no longer viewed exclusively as a natural and objective good. It has become enlarged, complex and contested..."
Creator(s): François Matarasso, King Baudouin Foundation | Date Published: 2005-10
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"Europa Nostra position paper to the European Union institutions."
Creator(s): Europa Nostra | Date Published: 2005-06
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« Ce guide pratique de tourisme patrimonial est une invitation au voyage dans la francophonie ontarienne et canadienne, une invitation à explorer, à apprécier, à sauvegarder et à mettre en valeur différents aspects de nos villes et villages, des paysages de notre région, de nos réseaux d’affaires, de sociabilité et de solidarité, de nos ressources, de nos souvenirs et de nos projets. »
Creator(s): Paule Doucet, Regroupement des organismes du patrimoine franco-ontarien | Date Published: 2005-04-27
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"Heritage tourism can be defined as being based upon the social and physical structures of the past and present. Heritage tourism, also called cultural or historical tourism, focuses on the cultural landscapes of the past and present that were shaped by human actions."
Creator(s): Office of the Governor Economic Development & Tourism (Texas) | Date Published: 2004-03
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"Unlike conventional tourism, heritage tourism features historical sights and other cultural attractions that help people learn about our Nation’s past. If properly planned and managed, land, buildings, and other resources that have historic or cultural significance or that are located near historically or culturally significant sites – may provide landowners with new income opportunities."
Creator(s): United States Department of Agriculture | Date Published: 2004
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"As the first legislated example of conservation biology in action, the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-KMA) offers a valuable new model for conservation planning and design."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"The Pacific Estuary Conservation Program (PECP) is a partnership of government and non-government agencies that seeks to protect estuarine habitat along the coast of British Columbia through land acquisitions, preservation of Crown lands and the development and promotion of land stewardship techniques."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"Vuntut National Park and surrounding special management area protect the ecological integrity and cultural heritage of a vast area in northern Yukon."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"For many, the Yukon Territory represents one of the last refuges of wilderness. The Yukon Protected Areas Strategy (YPAS) aims to develop a complete network of protected areas in the territory based on ecosystem management, conservation biology, sustainable economies and heritage values."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"Cultural tourism represents an area of significant economic benefit to museums and heritage sites. Challenging economic times in particular require cultural and heritage facilities to explore ways and means to increase attendance and self-generated revenues and to control operating expenses."
Creator(s): Ted Silberberg, CMC | Date Published: 2003
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"Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island has been the scene of heated clashes between environmental interests and forest companies. Sources of conflict include protection of ecosystems, visual aesthetics, tourism and large-scale industrial forestry."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"The Ontario government started the Lands for Life (L4L) process to respond to public demand for integrated land use planning and wilderness protection. In phase one, regional round tables developed land use plans for almost half of Ontario's Crown land."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"Thanks in part to the Mining Sector Consultation, Manitoba is Canada's leading jurisdiction in achieving protected area goals. Under this consultation, mining, government and conservation interests work together to identify which lands should be protected from mining and other ecologically harmful activities."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"For modern citizens of Bangladesh, the world's most densely populated country, cultural heritage is not a luxury but a touchstone of identity that has helped to forge a nation from a half-century of conflict."
Creator(s): Monica L. Smith | Date Published: 2002-12
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"Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Report of Proceedings. In conjunction with its regular quarterly meeting, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) hosted a summit meeting of Federal agencies on November 14, 2002, to discuss cultural heritage tourism."
Creator(s): Advisory Council on Historic Preservation | Date Published: 2002-11-14
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"The seminar about the cultural tourism route between Finnish and Russian castles and fortresses started on the first day of the Third Finnish Russian Cultural Forum in Lappeenranta, Finland, on Wednesday, 9.10.2002, with a visit to the Fortress of Lappeenranta."
Creator(s): Karoliina Lehtonen, Ministry of Education of Finland | Date Published: 2002-10-09
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"The Eastern Scotian Shelf Integrated Management (ESSIM) project is one of the first integrated management initiatives launched under the 1997 Oceans Act. It is a regionally driven, collaborative planning process for addressing conservation, multiple use and sustainable development of the ocean environment."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2002
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"What is heritage tourism? The National Trust for Historic Preservation defines heritage tourism as “traveling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and present.”
Creator(s): Cheryl M. Hargrove | Date Published: 2002
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"This is the third report on the research on values and economics of cultural heritage which was started at the Getty Conservation Institute in 1995. The early results of this project highlighted some issues fundamental to the field that were in need of further consideration. Among these were the lack of recognized and widely accepted methodologies for the assessment of cultural values, as well as the difficulties of comparing the results of economic and cultural values assessments."
Creator(s): The Getty Conservation Institute | Date Published: 2002
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"In the confusion and frustration currently surrounding tourism, especially ecotourism, here is a story of promise and hope. The Banff Heritage Tourism Strategy (HTS) a community-based tourism initiative that has tremendous potential to help overcome the destruction caused by too many people in a fragile place."
Creator(s): Holly Quan | Date Published: 2001-12
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"The report outlines key challenges and opportunities for conservation, and presents a set of recommendations that, if applied, will position Canada as a global leader in conservation by 2010."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2001
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"The international tourism agenda of the 1990s advances some profound challenges to all actors involved in the tourism sector. Consumers of tourism in the 1990s are demanding greater quality in the tourism product. They want greater variety and more flexibility in their travels."
Creator(s): Inter-American Travel Congresses Permanent Secretariat | Date Published: 1997-01-31
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"In 1999, the Government of Canada established the Canada Travelling Exhibitions Indemnification Program within the Department of Canadian Heritage."
Lead Managing Organization: Department of Canadian Heritage | Start Date: 1999
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"In order to better ensure the preservation in Canada of significant examples of our cultural, historic and scientific heritage, the Government of Canada enacted legislation to prevent the uncontrolled export of such cultural property."
Lead Managing Organization: Canadian Heritage | Start Date: 2006
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« Ce programme vise à développer et promouvoir les ressources culturelles du milieu dans une optique de tourisme culturel, en formant des animateurs pour assurer la relève dans le domaine de la mise en valeur et de l'animation du patrimoine. »
Lead Managing Organization: Culture et des Communications Québec | Start Date: 2004-07-19
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"The objective of this sub-programme is to assist in making Ireland's natural and cultural heritage more accessible and attractive to tourists."
Lead Managing Organization: Department of the Arts, Gaeltacht | Start Date: 2004
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"It is our job at English Heritage to make sure that the historic environment of England is properly maintained and cared for. By employing some of the country's very best architects, archaeologists and historians, we aim to help people understand and appreciate why the historic buildings and landscapes around them matter."
Creator(s): English Heritage | Date Published: 2006
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"History and culture provide a key opportunity for travel promoters and planners. The educational experience from heritage tourism can be partnered with other tourist attractions."
Creator(s): Municipal Research & Services Center of Washington | Date Published: 2005-01
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"The World Heritage List grows longer every year as new nominations are accepted by the World Heritage Committee and more countries sign the World Heritage Convention."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 2005
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"The Ontario government is helping communities across the province preserve and protect their local heritage with the publication of Strengthening Ontario’s Heritage: An introductory guide to identifying, protecting and promoting your community’s heritage."
Creator(s): Ministry of Culture, Government of Ontario | Date Published: 2005-10-05
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"There are many issues to think about in successful tourism. One goal for everyone involved is to provide an enjoyable and enriching experience for visitors. This is where launched interpretation plays a major role. Successful tourism hinges on this. The eight principles covered in the guide all contribute to achieving this goal."
Creator(s): Annie Crawford, Australian Heritage Commission | Date Published: 2005-04-27
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"Parks and protected areas (PAs) are usually scenically attractive, form significant lures, have significant biodiversity and other values, and are important destinations in Canada for outdoor tourism operators."
Creator(s): Pam Wight and Associates | Date Published: 2001-09
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"Excluding nature parks."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-01-25
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"Progress on Establishing National Parks in 14 Unrepresented Regions (2003-2004)."
Creator(s): Parks Canada | Date Published: 2004-11-22
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"...To promote, foster, and encourage interest in and preservation of buildings and sites of an historic, artistic and cultural nature within Nova Scotia..." The Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, founded in 1959, is one of the earliest heritage preservation organizations in Canada."
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"An international research centre and museum devoted to architecture."
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"Anne de Amodio founded the association in 1953, to promote the preservation and restoration of the historical buildings as well as to promote the training of craftsmen."
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"Canada’s historic places capture the spirit of the nation, providing the connecting fabric that links us together as Canadians. Historic places offer social, economic and environmental benefits that add to the quality of life in our communities. However, our historic places are at risk --- over 20% of the nation’s historic buildings have been destroyed in one generation."
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"CIMEC - Institutul de Memorie Culturala (Institute for Cultural Memory) is a public institution under the Romanian Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, founded in 1978, as a national organisation for the computerised cultural heritage record."
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"City Lore was founded in 1986 to produce programs and publications that convey the richness of New York City's cultural heritage. Increasingly our many efforts embrace national audiences as well."
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"Community Heritage Ontario - Le Patrimoine Communautaire de I'Ontario (CHO) was incorporated in 1991 to provide a non-profit provincial umbrella organization in support of municipally-appointed heritage advisory committees. These local volunteer committees are known as Municipal Heritage Committees (formerly called LACACs - Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committees) and exist to advise local municipal councils on heritage matters."
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"Conserving culture, promoting diversity."
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"Created by the law of July 2, 1996, the "Fondation du Patrimoine" is a private independent non-profit organization, from which the vocation is to defend and to value a heritage in process of disappearance not protected by the State, the "heritage of proximity", which is a non classified or registered heritage. Our main objective consists in the promotion of the local memory and the economic development."
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"CSC is a not-for-profit, charitable organization dedicated to consistently high standards for learning resources."
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"For more than 50 years, the National Trust has been helping Americans protect the irreplaceable. A private nonprofit organization with more than 200,000 members, the National Trust is the leader of the vigorous preservation movement that is saving the best of the country's past for the future."
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"Founded in June 1879 by an Act of the Manitoba Legislature, the Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is the oldest organization in western Canada devoted to the promotion of public interest in, and preservation of, the region's historical resources."
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"From leading-edge research to innovative approaches, the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) is recognized as a pioneer in the conservation of cultural heritage."
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"Helping Canadians celebrate their stories since 1994. The Society, 50 000 members strong, is devoted to brushing the dust off of Canadian history to reveal our true passion and drama."
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"Heritage Toronto is a charitable agency of the City of Toronto. It is responsible for the presentation of heritage programming with a city-wide perspective to all levels of government and private-sector bodies and also for fundraising."
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"Historica is a foundation whose mandate is to provide Canadians with a deeper understanding of their history and its importance in shaping their future."
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"IMPACS, the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, is a Canadian charitable organization committed to the protection and expansion of democracy and to strengthening civil society. IMPACS believes that a strong democracy requires three key elements, and our work supports our efforts to create an environment in which democratic values can thrive."
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"Inuit Heritage Trust is an Inuit organization that deals specifically with issues of archaeology, ethnographic objects and archives. Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated is the umbrella organization that gives us our core funding."
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"Ontario's heritage is everything we have inherited that we value and wish to preserve for future generations. It is a living legacy that helps us understand our past, provides context for the present and influences our future."
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"Over the past several decades, cultural studies has become the name for theoretically informed and politically inspired interdisciplinary work in both the humanities and social sciences. While it is only recently (with some notable exceptions) that cultural studies is beginning to find its way into universities across Canada, there has long been an indigenous form of Canadian cultural studies whose influence has been felt around the world."
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"SAHRA is a statutory organisation established under the National Heritage Resources Act, No 25 of 1999, as the national administrative body responsible for the protection of South Africa’s cultural heritage."
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"Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has used digital media and computer technology to change the ways that people--scholars, students, and the general public--learn about and use the past."
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"The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) is the national membership organization of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving the art and historic artifacts of our cultural heritage for future generations."
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"The Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) is a learned society which initiates and supports activities in the areas of research, teaching, communications, and the training of students in the field of Canadian Studies, especially in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives."
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"The Australian Heritage Council is the principal adviser to the Australian Government on heritage matters. The Council assesses nominations for the National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heritage List and compiles the Register of the National Estate."
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"The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian museums work together to strengthen our collective ability to create, present and manage Canadian online content. This collaboration has resulted in CHIN's internationally valued Web site for heritage professionals, and the highly successful VMC portal at virtualmuseum.ca."
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"The Heritage Canada Foundation is a national, membership-based organization and registered charity established in 1973."
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"The Heritage Council was established as a statutory body under the Heritage act 1995."
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"The International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) is a federation of twenty national and multi-national Canadian Studies associations, governed by an Executive Council and an elected four-member Executive Committee."
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"The Mission of the Department of the Interior is to protect and provide access to our Nation's natural and cultural heritage and honor our trust responsibilities to Indian Tribes and our commitments to island communities."
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"The Ontario Historical Society is a non-profit corporation and registered charity; a non-government group founded in 1888; bringing together people of all ages, all walks of life and all cultural backgrounds interested in preserving some aspect of Ontario."
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"The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) was founded on September 8, 1993 in Fez, Morocco. As of December 31, 2001, the organization was made up of 203 cities in which are located inhabited sites, included on the UNESCO World Heritage List."
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"The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, established in 1907, is a voluntary national association representing more than 3,000 architects, and Faculty and graduates of accredited Canadian Schools of Architecture, from every region of the country."
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"World Monuments Fund is the foremost private, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic art and architecture worldwide through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training."
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« ... est une association à but non lucratif dont le rôle est de promouvoir l'étude, la connaissance, la conservation et la mise en valeur du patrimoine industriel au Québec. »
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« Le Centre de conservation du Québec contribue à la conservation préventive et à la restauration du patrimoine mobilier du Québec en vue d'une meilleure accessibilité et d'une valorisation de l'héritage culturel du Québec. »
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« Organisme privé à but non lucratif créé en 1975, le Conseil des monuments et sites du Québec (CMSQ) œuvre à la sauvegarde et à la mise en valeur des monuments et sites du Québec. Madame France Gagnon Pratte, historienne de l’architecture, assume actuellement la présidence de l'organisme. »
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"An Act respecting the export from Canada of cultural property and the import into Canada of cultural property illegally exported from foreign states."
Creator(s): Department of Justice Canada | Date Published: 2005-08-09
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"An Act to establish an indemnification program for travelling exhibitions."
Creator(s): Department of Justice Canada | Date Published: 2005-08-09
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"The UNESCO Declaration concerning the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage ("the Declaration") was unanimously adopted by the thirty-second session of the UNESCO General Conference (Paris, September - October 2003), mainly in response to the tragic destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan in March 2001."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 2001-03
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"For the purposes of this Convention, the term `cultural property' means property which, on religious or secular grounds, is specifically designated by each State as being of importance for archaeology, prehistory, history, literature, art or science."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 1970-11-14
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"Recognizing that cultural property has suffered grave damage during recent armed conflicts and that, by reason of the developments in the technique of warfare, it is in increasing danger of destruction."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 1954-05-14
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