Heritage Matters  contributor

• Buildings and architecture

In 2006, the Ontario Heritage Trust began compiling an inventory of significant pre-1982 purpose-built places of worship …

• Buildings and architecture
  Adaptive reuse

In our efforts to conserve heritage properties, finding a use can be our greatest challenge and our greatest opportunity. An …

• Buildings and architecture
  Community
  Cultural landscapes

At the turn of the 20th century, Cobalt was a small and isolated lumber camp. In August 1903, two lumbermen – James McKinley …

• Buildings and architecture

The buildings, structures and landscapes that comprise our cultural heritage are products of the intricate interplay between …

• Buildings and architecture

In November 2007, the Sir Aemilius Irving House in Hamilton was demolished by its owner to make way for a new building. …

• Buildings and architecture
  Environment
  Adaptive reuse

In the late 1990s, the Ontario Ministry of Culture introduced Eight Guiding Principles in the Conservation of Built Heritage …

• Buildings and architecture
  Environment

Sustainable: able to be maintained at a certain rate or level . . . conserving an ecological balance by …

• Buildings and architecture

The Ontario Heritage Trust’s heritage conservation easements conserve some of Ontario’s most significant heritage sites. Good …

• Buildings and architecture
  Community
  Tools for conservation

What’s happening in your community?

With significant amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act in April 2005 and a …