- Ontario Heritage Trust
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The Ontario Heritage Centre on Adelaide Street in Toronto, the headquarters of the Ontario Heritage Trust
The Ontario Heritage Trust is a non-profit agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture, responsible for protecting, preserving and promoting the built, natural and cultural heritage of Canada's most populous province. It was initially known as the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board in the 1950s. In 1968, the Sites Board was incorporated into the Ontario Heritage Foundation by the Progressive Conservative government of John Robarts. Its name was changed to Ontario Heritage Trust in 2005 by an amendment to the Ontario Heritage Act. The Trust's current chairman is Dr. Thomas Symons.
The Trust's most recognizable work is the Provincial Plaque Program. Since 1956 at Port Carling, it has erected over 1,200 of the now-familiar blue and gold plaques, the vast majority of which are found across Ontario, but also in the United States, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.[1] The Trust also owns a number of historic buildings.
Ontario Heritage Trust buildings
- Ashbridge Estate
- Barnum House
- Bethune-Thompson House Nat'l Historic Site
- Duff Baby House
- Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
- Enoch Turner School
- Fulford Place
- George Brown House (Toronto)
- Homewood National Historic Site
- Inge-Va
- Macdonell-Williamson House National Historic Site
- McMartin House National Historic Site
- Mather-Walls House
- Moose Factory Buildings National Historic Site:
- Hudson's Bay Company Staff House
- Joseph Turner House
- William McLeod House
- Ham Sackabukisham House
- Niagara Apothecary National Historic Site
- Ontario Heritage Center at Birkbeck Building National Historic Site
- Scotsdale Farm
- Sir Harry Oakes Chateau
- Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site
- Wolford Chapel
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References
Categories:- Ontario government departments and agencies
- Heritage sites in Ontario
- National trusts
- Ontario stubs
- Canada government stubs
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