Top Ten Endangered
Call for Nominations — Deadline May 24, 2013
The Top Ten Endangered Places List is released annually to bring national attention to sites at risk due to neglect, lack of funding, inappropriate development and weak legislation. From unique 19th-century landmarks to simple vernacular housing, stone railway stations to Modernist airports, heritage districts to single buildings, the list has become a powerful tool in the fight to make landmarks, not landfill.
HCF uses three primary criteria to determine the 10 final sites for inclusion on the list:
• Significance of the site
• Urgency of the threat
• Community support for its preservation
If you know a site that should be included on our list, tell us about it today.
Along with our annual Top Ten list, HCF draws attention to heritage sites already lost – don’t miss our Worst Losses list.
Questions? Contact Us
2012 Top Ten List
Full PDF Backgrounder on current sites.
The Heritage Canada Foundation released its eighth annual Top Ten Most Endangered Places List on June 27, 2012.
The selection—presented here from the West to East Coast—was compiled from the results of HCF’s call for nominations as well as those
stories and news items followed throughout the year.
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Riverview Hospital – 2601 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam, BC – EXTRAORDINARY GREATER VANCOUVER CULTURAL LANDSCAPE THREATENED WITH INSENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT. The B.C. Government is rushing the redevelopment plans on the site leaving advocates concerned for its future. |
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Paramount Theatre – 46147 Yale Road, Chilliwack, BC – HISTORIC CITY-OWNED THEATRE FACES DESTRUCTION DESPITE YOUTHFUL GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN. 11th hour community group plans to save historic cinema, but faces scrutiny from skeptical City Council. |
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Barron Building – 610 8 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB – BIRTHPLACE OF CALGARY’S OIL INDUSTRY FACES DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT. Mired in legal wrangles and stalled development plans, this high-profile Calgary heritage building sits vacant, derelict, and on the brink. |
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École Connaught Community School – 2124 Elphinstone Street, Regina, SK – REGINA’S OLDEST SCHOOL SET FOR DEMOLITION DESPITE NEIGHBOURHOOD OUTCRY. Rehab of well-loved historic school is being scuttled by School Board and Provincial funding formula bias for new construction. |
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Hamilton Education Centre – 100 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON – MODERNIST ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARK HEADING FOR LANDFILL. A demolition permit has been issued to Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board—a condition of its sale to McMaster University—in order to make way for the university’s new $85 million health campus. |
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Ontario Place – 955 Lakeshore Blvd, Toronto, ON – MODERNIST CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AT RISK. An internationally renowned modernist urban waterfront park has been partially shuttered with no legal protection for its heritage elements, pending a major redevelopment. |
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Bala Falls Cultural Landscape – 1044 Bala Falls Road, Township of Muskoka Lakes, ON – GREEN ENERGY INTERSECTS WITH NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION INTERESTS. A sensitive green energy project that could destroy the landmark Bala Falls is pushing ahead without an individual Environmental Assessment. |
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Église du Très-Saint-Nom-de-Jésus – 4215 rue Adam, Montreal, QC – PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE. The church’s predicament underscores the pressures exerted on places of worship by declining numbers of congregants and high maintenance and restoration costs. A dedicated group of concerned citizens is struggling against an unwilling archdiocese and reluctant provincial government. |
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Zion Baptist Church – 27 Parade St., Yarmouth, Nova Scotia — CLOCK IS TICKING FOR IMPORTANT TOWN LANDMARK. A part of the Yarmouth community for nearly 115 years, this unique church is in need of costly structural repairs. Although City Council has denied the church’s application to deregister the building under the Municipal Heritage Property Act—to enable its possible demolition—the legislation will only protect it for a period of three years. |
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Canada’s Lighthouses—IS IT LIGHTS OUT FOR CANADA’S LIGHTHOUSES? Local communities left holding the financial bag as federal government unloads hundreds of “surplus” heritage lighthouses. |
