- • Heritage Pays
- • Introduction
- • Canadian Case Studies
- • Case Study 1
- • Case Study 2
- • Case Study 3
- • Heritage Tourism
- • Heritage Conservation Saves Energy
- • Heritage Workforce
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91% of Canadians polled believe that heritage conservation is important.
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Canadian Case Studies
Want further proof? Take a look at these case studies
of three financially successful heritage projects by commercial
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What Can You Do?
- • Developers can look at the federal
government’s new Commercial Heritage Properties
Incentive Fund for assistance in restoration and rehabilitation.
- • Heritage organizations can invite
a commercial heritage property owner to speak at a
meeting or special event. Set up a display of properties,
and invite the media.
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Heritage Designation Does NOT Hurt Property Values
Many people think that municipal heritage designation
is an encumbrance on a property. It’s not true!
During the 1990s, Dr. Robert Shipley of the University
of Waterloo examined the effect of heritage designation
on property values in Ontario. He investigated 2,707
properties designated under the Ontario Heritage Act
in 24 communities over a 20-year period.
What Dr. Shipley found out:
- • Some 74% of individually designated properties
equalled or bettered the average property value trend
in their communities.
- • The rate of sales among individually designated
properties was equal to, or greater than, the general
rate of sales of properties within their communities.
- • The rate of sales among designated properties
did not appear to be affected by the number of designations
in a given community.
- • Designated properties tend to resist downturns
in the ambient market.
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What Can You Do?
- • Municipal leaders can look carefully at the facts regarding
property value and designation.
- • Heritage organizations can build case studies about the
effect of designation on property value in your own, or
neighbouring communities.
Fundraising for heritage projects
Finding the money for heritage projects can be challenging.
Whether you are restoring a commercial heritage property
or publishing a walking tour guide of historic places,
it isn’t always obvious where to go for funding
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What Can You Do?
- • Owners of heritage buildings
can contact their municipal government and ask about
the help available for preserving or restoring designated
heritage property. If no local funding is available,
urge your municipality to create a program that will
assist heritage property owners. To back up your request,
tell them about Victoria, B.C.; Markham, Ont.; Québec
City, Que.; and Saint John, N.B. Each community has
won the Heritage Canada Foundation’s prestigious
Prince of Wales Prize for its heritage stewardship.
And each has successful programs to assist heritage
property owners!
- • Commercial property owners can
look at the Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive
Fund of the federal Historic Places Initiative (819-934-2818).
- • Nonprofit and charitable organizations
could set up a summer project that could be done by
a student. Then you might be able to get help from
us! The Heritage Canada Foundation administers the
Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions program,
which disburses federal government funding.
- • Nonprofit organizations could also apply to various philanthropic foundations, both public and private, for funding assistance. Contact your provincial government for public programs or look at the funding links on the Heritage Canada Foundation Web site.
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