The City of Edmonton is balking at the cost of rehabilitating the decommissioned industrial site and contemplating stripping it of…
2013
Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute (KCVI)
SCHOOL BOARD RECOMMENDING CLOSURE OF OLDEST SCHOOL IN ONTARIO IN FAVOUR OF NEW CONSTRUCTION Why it matters: Kingston Collegiate Vocational…
Amherst Island, north-eastern shore of Lake Ontario
CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE, SITE OF PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINE PLANT Why it matters: Situated along the north-eastern shore…
Dennis Building
FUTURE OF PROVINCIALLY-OWNED BUILDING IS UNCERTAIN AFTER YEARS OF NEGLECT Once called “the finest office building in eastern Canada,” Internal…
15 and 19 Wellington Row- “Jellybean Houses”
ARCHITECTURAL ORPHANS WILL SOON BE VICTIMS OF DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT The two City-owned iconic buildings known as the “jellybean houses,”…
24 and 28 King Street East, Gore Park
THREATENED DUE TO QUESTIONABLE CITY DEAL WITH DEVELOPER City of Hamilton plays fast and loose with Victorian-era commercial buildings that…
POW Camp 30
NEWLY DECLARED NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE IS STRUGGLING AGAINST TIME AND VANDALS Why it matters: In 1925 John Jury donated 106…
Fort Qu’Appelle Sanatorium
SASKATCHEWAN’S LAST TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM SUCCUMBING TO DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT Sold by the Province in 2005, the once beautiful “Fort San”…
Main Post Office
VANCOUVER’S POSTAL TEMPLE DESTINED TO BE “LOST IN THE MAIL” Sold by Canada Post with no heritage protection to an…
Cap-des-Rosier Lighthouse National Historic Site
Local community left holding the financial bag as federal government seeks to unload a “surplus” heritage lighthouse. Why it matters:…