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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:13:05 +0530
A day to celebrate, or commiserate
TREVOR BODDY
Heritage Day is this Monday. Few of us know this, and even fewer
celebrate it. The status of this holiday is similar to the status of
preservation movement today -- noted for a moment, then ignored.
In Canada, our generic deference to the state means that heritage --
like the arts -- is thought to be maintained by some public or
quasi-public agency. This almost always means a lot of over-worked
preservationists scrambling to implement under-funded programs.
I am always amazed at how much more advanced heritage conservation
efforts are in the United States than in Canada, powered by more
favourable tax laws, historic designation legislation with teeth, but
perhaps most of all, a national narrative that beads together all the
individual stories that places tell.
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