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Conserve Heritage Resources

Support Maintaining and Improving the Commemorative Integrity of National Historic Sites Not Administered by Parks Canada

Parks Canada seeks to influence awareness of commemorative integrity and best practices through publications, training, exchange of information, encouraging alliances and networks among national historic sites, contributing to costs of specific conservation and/or presentation projects (e.g., an investment of approximately $26.6 million since 1987 through National Historic Sites Cost Share Program) and providing support for developing Commemorative Integrity Statements (i.e., a statement of a site’s heritage values, what conditions must be met for it’s values and resources to be unimpaired and what constitutes an effective communication of the reasons for its national significance. As of March 2007, Parks Canada had supported the development of 114 commemorative integrity statements, 10 in 2006-2007, for non-administered sites with an additional 24 draft statements pending approval.

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