Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Properties in Canada that are protected by UNESCO.

1.)  The town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
2.)  Historic District of Old Quebec- that includes the Plains of Abraham, the Chateau Frontenac Hotel, La Citadelle de Quebec and the Louis St-Laurent Building, Old Post Office.
3.)  The Rideau Canal National Historic Site.
4.)  Dinosaur Provincial Park - currently the focus of an agenda to sell-off Alberta landscapes.
5.)  Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
6.)  Gros Morne National Park.
7.)  Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
8.)  Joggins Fossil Cliffs.
9.)  Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatschenshini-Alsek.
10.) Landscape of Grand Pre.
11.) L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site.
12.) Migausha National Park.
13.) NahinninNational Park.
14.) Red Bay Basque Whaling Station.
15.) SGang Gwaay.
6.)  Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Alberta:
The Waterton International Peace Park during the year 1990. My Mother is on the right, I an pictured on the left.

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In my opinion, the following sites are in dire need of protection from redevelopment and demolition.
1.)  Wellington Street buildings across from Parliament Hill. The government of Canada has launched an international design competition to modernize the Parliamentary Precinct. The I.M. Pei Company and an architectural firm from Spain have already signed onto the project.
The I.M. Pei Company from New York City designed the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France.
2.)  The Kingston Penitentiary, Prison for Women, Church of the Good Thief, Rockwood Asylum, Penitentiary Farm House, Corrections Canada Museum, Portsmouth Halfway House, Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, Isabel MacNeill Halfway House and the limestone tunnel that connects the Pen/the Big House and P4W. They are all located in the village of Portsmouth in Kingston, Ontario.

3.)  All of the buildings in the northern half of the Sparks Street Mall, Ottawa.
4.)  The 1,000 government lighthouses that were abandoned by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
5.)  Sussex Drive, "Ottawa's Mile of History" - the following buildings are on a list of properties that the government of Canada plans to divest:
Connaught or Revenue Canada Building
Lester B. Pearson Building/ External Affairs.
Former Ottawa City Hall. John G. Diefenbaker Building.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney stopped the demolition of the Royal Canadian Mint. The PM was driving by the Mint when he noticed that workers were dismantling it. He told the driver to stop the car, told the workers to go home and made phone calls to find out what was going on. The article is by Susan Delacourt.














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