A FEDERALLY “RECOGNIZED” HERITAGE LIGHTHOUSE ABANDONNED TO THE ELEMENTS Declared surplus in 2010 by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans…

AWARD-WINNING MODERN HOCKEY ARENA FACES CRUSHING BODYCHECK Moose Jaw’s iconic modernist hockey arena, the Civic Centre, is being systematically gutted…

FUTURE OF HISTORIC DISTRICT UNCERTAIN DESPITE 1964 PROVINCIAL DESIGNATION As early as 1964, the province of Quebec made the visionary…

TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON DESIGNATED BUILDINGS One of the last physical reminders of Brantford’s great industrial past may get…

ABSENTEE OWNERS THREATEN TO TURN HERITAGE HOUSES INTO DISTANT MEMORY Integral to Port Union National Historic Site, the Fisherman’s Row…

ICONIC MODERN BANK TOWER FACES LIQUIDATION An intractable owner seeks to raze one of Edmonton’s finest modern heritage office buildings,…

Mount Allison University’s Board of Regents approved the demolition of its historic Memorial Library building for a new arts facility….

TRYING TO TEACH A PRESERVATION MESSAGE A solid historic school that anchors the entrance to the downtown, the building is…

A CASE OF DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT This designated privately owned heritage building—home to one of the last remaining intact opera…

A PUBLIC LEGACY SOLD SHORT  Ottawa city council has voted to proceed with a controversial redevelopment plan for Lansdowne Park,…

SEISMIC SHAKEDOWN Historic Kitsilano Senior Secondary School faces demolition at the hands of an opportunistic school board using provincial seismic…

Unchecked demolition and unsympathetic replacement buildings are diminishing a turn-of-the-century concentration of buildings unrivalled in Canada Why it matters: Winnipeg’s warehouse…

LIGHTS OUT FOR CANADA’S LIGHTHOUSES Despite the efforts of Senators, Members of Parliament, heritage organizations and volunteer citizens to get…

Historic views of Queen’s Park, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Building, will be permanently disfigured if a massive precedent-setting condo…

Vandals brutalized the 115-year old St. Philip’s Anglican Church by ripping off its steeple after the Town of Portugal Cove-St….

The once prolific workers cottages, known as “company houses,” that dotted the landscape of industrial Cape Breton are beginning to…

BREWING FOR A FIGHT A demolition permit is being sought for four of the oldest buildings at the Calgary Brewing…

Brought back from the brink of demolition twice, what remains of the Redpath Mansion—a rare vestige of the fabled Square…

A CASE AT RISK OF DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT Dating from 1816 and connected with the War of 1812, one of…

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE SORELY NEGLECTED Lack of funding support from the provincial and federal governments—who have both designated this monument…

ASTRONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT PRESSURE Proximity to Yonge Street, recent sale to an Ontario property developer, and a half-hearted approach to legal…

USE IT OR LOSE IT Moncton High School is one of hundreds of historic schools from the first half of…

OMB DECISION DECLARES OPEN SEASON The Ontario Municipal Board’s approval of a 20-storey height tower inside the Port Dalhousie Heritage…

CANARY IN A COAL MINE Even though mining sites in the Crowsnest Pass are designated, they are suffering from neglect,…

PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE A demolition permit has been issued to tear down the monastery and its 124-year-old chapel on…

CURTAINS FOR HISTORIC THEATRE After three years of negotiation, a redevelopment plan for this historic theatre was scuttled last September…

VILLAGE HAS WILL, LACKS MEANS TO SAVE HISTORIC CANAL Overwhelmed by the high costs of restoration and maintenance, the small…

CITY REFUSES TO REUSE AND RECYCLE   St. Mary’s is one of hundreds of historic community schools from the first…

CRUMBLING BEHIND BARS The future of the Winter Prison complex remains uncertain. This unique historic landmark is succumbing to decay…

STRUGGLING AGAINST A TIDE OF DECAY All too often, local preservation and historical societies which are mostly run by volunteers…

HISTORIC PIONEER CHURCH LEFT TO VANDALS The future of the church is dependent upon finding adequate restoration funding, the willingness…

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD Although the federal government is engaged in commemorating Canada’s national historic sites,…

AIRPORT HEADING FOR CRASH LANDING The future of this extraordinary public building is dependent upon it overcoming inadequate protective legislation…

LAST CALL FOR HISTORIC TRAIN STATION Kingston’s first train station remains in critical condition. If the present level of neglect…

MODERNIST LANDMARK HEADING FOR LANDFILL In spite of massive public opposition, the Riverdale Hospital will be demolished to make way…

Why it matters: Built in 1909 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR), this extremely well-preserved locomotive roundhouse in Biggar,…

LANDMARK EATERY DESTINED FOR THE DUMP BENS Delicatessen, a Montréal Art Deco landmark with its famous wrap-around illuminated corner sign,…

Background: Herschel Island, an important cultural heritage site, is being slowly washed away by rising sea levels that are attributed…

Why it’s important: The Fogo Island town of Tilting has been identified by Parks Canada as one of the country’s…

Why It Matters: This three-storey Georgian mansion, located on prime real estate below René Levesque Boulevard, was built between 1844…

Background: In the southern B.C. interior town of Creston, two wooden grain elevators are up for sale and facing an…

Background: Following a fire in 1991, the boarded-up King building has been left to the elements—a classic case of demolition…

Background: The Vogue Theatre, a landmark on downtown Vancouver’s Granville Street and a magnificent example of the Art Deco style,…

Background: Dating from 1831, Seal Island is the oldest wooden lighthouse in Nova Scotia but is quickly falling into ruin….

Background: Advocates for the preservation of the Central Pentecostal Tabernacle, a pair of landmark modernist buildings that have been described…

Background: The fight to save 48 Abell Street, a large 19th-century agricultural implements and farm machinery factory on Toronto’s Queen…

Background: Built in 1929 by veterans of the First World War, the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #63, was constructed as…