Canadian Register of Historic Places
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Type of site
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Online database of historic sites in Canada |
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| Available in | English and French |
| Owner | Administered by Parks Canada |
| Slogan(s) | Canada's Historic Places French: Lieux patrimoniaux du Canada |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank | As of 23 October 2014[update]: 519,255 (Global) 16,514 (Canada) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | May 2004 |
| Current status | Online |
The Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP; French: Le Répertoire canadien des lieux patrimoniaux), also known as Canada's Historic Places, is an online directory of historic sites in Canada which have been formally recognized for their heritage value by a federal, provincial, territorial and/or municipal authority.
The Canadian Register of Historic Places was created as part of Canada's "Historic Places Initiative". Commencing in 2001, the Historic Places Initiative is a collaboration between the federal, provincial and territorial governments to improve protection of the country's historic sites and to "promote and foster a culture of heritage conservation in Canada". The CRHP and the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada (a common set of guidelines for the restoration and rehabilitation of historic sites throughout Canada) are the two major tools developed to assist in achieving the initiative's main objectives.
The CRHP was officially launched in May 2004 as a single access point for members of the public to learn about historic sites across Canada. It is a work in progress, and as of 2011 included approximately 12,300 of the country's estimated 17,000 designated historic sites.
The directory was designed to be both flexible, in order to accommodate information from the wide range of heritage authorities across the country, as well as uniform, so as to provide a consistent means of searching and a consistent form of documentation for sites regardless of location or heritage designation. Moreover, historic sites that have been recognized by more than one level of government, often for differing reasons, are linked in the directory. For example, the CRHP contains two listings for the Halifax Public Gardens in Nova Scotia (a site designated as both a National Historic Site of Canada and a Municipally Registered Property under the Heritage Property Act), and these two listings in the CRHP are connected in order to highlight the many heritage values that have been ascribed to this particular site.
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