The Ontario Heritage Trust (french: link=no, Fiducie du patrimoine ontarien) is a non-profit agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture. It is responsible for protecting, preserving and promoting the built, natural and cultural heritage of Canada's most populous province,

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...

History

It was initially known as the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during the 1950s. It was incorporated into the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1968 by the Progressive Conservative government of

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. Its name was changed to the Ontario Heritage Trust in 2005 by an amendment to the ''

Ontario Heritage Act The ''Ontario Heritage Act'', (the ''Act'') first enacted on March 5, 1975, allows municipalities and the provincial government to designate individual properties and districts in the Province of Ontario, Canada, as being of cultural heritage ...

''. The Trust's immediate past chair is Harvey McCue. The Trust's most recognizable work is the Provincial Plaque Program. Since 1956 (at

Port Carling Port Carling is an unincorporated community in the Township of Muskoka Lakes in the Canadian province of Ontario. It has been the municipal seat of the township since 1971. It has several hundred year-round residents and is a service centre for t ...

), 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. The Trust also owns a number of historic buildings. The Ontario Heritage Trust Building—also known as the

Birkbeck Building The Birkbeck Building is a four-storey office building in downtown Toronto, Ontario. It is a National Historic Site of Canada and is protected under Part IV of the ''Ontario Heritage Act'' since 1976 with an Ontario Heritage Trust The Ontario ...

or the Ontario Heritage Centre—at 10 Adelaide Street East in

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is the headquarters of the Ontario Heritage Trust. It was used as the exterior of the " 125th Precinct" in

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in the 2012 television series ''

Beauty & the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...

''.

Ontario Heritage Trust buildings

Ashbridge Estate The Ashbridge Estate is a historic estate in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The property was settled by the Ashbridge family, who were English Quakers who left Pennsylvania after the American Revolutionary War. In 1796, as United Empire Loy ...

Barnum House The Barnum House was built between 1817 and 1819 by Eliakim Barnum, a United Empire Loyalist originally from Vermont. The house, which stands just outside Grafton, Ontario, in Alnwick/Haldimand Township, is the earliest example of Neoclassical ...

* Bethune-Thompson House *

Canada Southern Railway Station The Canada Southern Railway Station (CASO) is a former railway station in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. The station was built by the Canada Southern Railway (CSR) in 1873 as both a railway station and its corporate headquarters.Ontario Heritage T ...

/www.heritagetrust.on.ca/CorporateSite/media/oht/PDFs/St-Thomas-CASO-Station-ENG.pdf Ontario Heritage TrustThe St. Thomas CASO Station *

Duff Baby House The Duff Baby House is an historic house located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. History The house was built between 1792 and 1798 by Alexander Duff as a fur trade post. In 1807 the building was bought by James Baby and it is alleged to have been us ...

Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Winter Garden Theatre is seven storeys above the Elgin Theatre. They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. History T ...

* Enoch Turner School * First Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada (site, adjacent to City of Toronto part of the site.) * Fulford Place * George Brown House *

Homewood Museum, Maitland Homewood may refer to: Places Canada *Homewood, Manitoba United States *Homewood, Alabama *Homewood, California *Homewood, Illinois * Homewood, Kansas * Homewood, Pennsylvania *Homewood (Pittsburgh), three neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...

* Inge-Va * Macdonell-Williamson House *

McMartin House McMartin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander McMartin (1788–1853), Canadian politician * Barbara McMartin (1931–2005), Adirondack author and environmentalist * Duncan McMartin Jr. (1776–1837), New York politic ...

* Mather-Walls House *

Moose Factory Buildings National Historic Site The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult male ...

: ** Hudson's Bay Company Staff House ** Joseph Turner House ** Ham Sackabukisham House ** William McLeod House *

Niagara Apothecary The Niagara Apothecary was an apothecary in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, established no later than 1820, and is now a National Historic Site of Canada. It was operated by a series of successive owners, most of whom had apprenticed under the prec ...

Parliament Interpretive Centre The Parliament Interpretive Centre was an Ontario Heritage Trust museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was located at the site of the Upper Canada parliament buildings at Front Street and Berkeley Street. The museum opened in February 2012. Much ...

Scotsdale Farm Scotsdale is a village in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 222 at the 2010 census. Geography Scotsdale is located at (38.401092, -90.588374). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total ...

* Sir Harry Oakes Chateau * Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site * Wolford Chapel (in Devon, England)

References

External links

* {{ONGovDept National trusts

Ontario Heritage Foundation The Ontario Heritage Trust (french: link=no, Fiducie du patrimoine ontarien) is a non-profit agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture. It is responsible for protecting, preserving and promoting the built, natural and cultural herita ...

Historic preservation organizations in Canada