[Bcma-l] (Fwd) HCF / FHC Communiqué : Survey Reveals Funding Gaps
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From:                         <b>"Fondation Heritage Canada Foundation"
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Date sent:                  <b>Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:48:52 -0500</b></span></font>
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Subject:                     <b>HCF / FHC  Commun</b></span></font>
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                                 <b>iqué : Survey Reveals Funding Gaps</b></span></font>
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Please share with your members and colleagues.</span></font>
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Heritage Canada Foundation /</span></font>
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La fondation Héritage Canada</span></font>
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Communiqué</span></font>
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New Survey Underscores Funding Gap for Canada’s National Historic Sites</span></font>
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Ottawa, Ontario, November 4, 2008 – The findings of a recent Environics
survey of national historic sites lends greater urgency to Heritage Canada
Foundation’s (HCF) call for a national landmarks fund.</span></font>
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Commissioned by Parks Canada, the survey found that 69% of the 689
National Historic Sites managed by owners other than the federal
government are deteriorating, and will need major rehabilitation within the
next two years. Despite the national significance of the sites, the federal
government is largely absent as a funding partner. Between 1988 and 2000,
the National Historic Sites Cost Share Program (NHSCSP) provided bricks-
and-mortar funding to 57 non-federal sites. The funding benefited sites like
the Inglis Grain Elevators in Dauphin, Man. and the Saint John City Market
in N.B. NHSCSP projects leveraged 2-3 times the $27 million invested by
the government. Since 2000, however, the program has been dormant and
without funding. In 2003, the Auditor General reported that at least 118
requests for funding had gone unanswered.</span></font>
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The Heritage Canada Foundation has encouraged the federal government
to make a national landmarks fund and a federal rehabilitation tax credit the
cornerstones of any new federal investment in heritage. With federal seed
money, HCF could leverage matching donations from corporations and
individuals and create a dedicated source of funding for national historic
sites in non-government hands. In the United States, Save America™s
Treasures”a public-private partnership established by Congress”has
provided funds to the Statue of Liberty and other iconic U.S. sites from the
National Trust™s Most Endangered Places List. To date, $116 million U.S.
has been awarded to 431 projects and more than $217 million U.S. has
been matched by individuals, businesses and foundations.</span></font>
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The Parks Canada Survey of Owners of Non-Federal National Historic Sites</span></font>
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<a href="<http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pwgsc-tpsgc/por-ef/par=
ks_canada/2008/267-07-e/report.pdf>">
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<u>http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pwgsc-tpsgc/por-
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 – 2008 can be viewed online.</span></font>
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The Heritage Canada Foundation is a national, membership-based, non
profit organization with a mandate to promote the preservation of Canada’s
historic buildings and places.</span></font>
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For further information:</span></font>
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Carolyn Quinn, Director of Communications,
cquinn@heritagecanada.org<mailto:cquinn@heritagecanada.org></span></font>
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Telephone: 613-237-1066 ext. 229; Cell: 613-797-7206</span></font>
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