These websites will be useful to you in your heritage-related research.

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  • The Parks Canada website includes a table of provincial heritage legislation and corresponding protected areas and includes links to relevant sites. The table, entitled “APPENDIX A Legislation and Protected Areas, with web sites for provincial and territorial protected areas” is on the World Heritage: Canada site. Explore the rest of Parks Canada’s website as well.

Other websites of interest are listed below:

FEDERAL Organizations

Canada’s Historic Places

Canadian Conservation Institute

Canadian Wildlife Service

Environment Canada

Fisheries and Oceans Canada Online

Parks Canada

NON-GOVERNMENTAL Organizations

Architectural Conservancy of Ontario

Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)

Canadian Council on Ecological Areas (CCEA)

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Ducks Unlimited Canada

ICOMOS Canada

McCord Museum

Nature Canada

Nature Conservancy Canada

Nature Québec (UQCN)

Nature Saskatchewan

Ontario Heritage Trust

Ontario Nature

[Prince Edward] Island Nature Trust

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

Royal Tyrrell Museum

The Heritage Canada Foundation

The Land Conservancy (TLC)

Wildlife Habitat Canada

World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada)

Institutions: Museums and Archives

The Canadian Museums Association website has a searchable directory of 2600 museums and institutions.

Some museum websites are also listed below:

International Organizations

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)

International Council of Museums (ICOM)

International Council on Archives (ICA)

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

The Getty. Cultural Heritage Policy Documents. [1877-2004].

The World Conservation Union (IUCN)

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

World Heritage

Copyright and Intellectual Policy Sites

Copyright Act ( R.S., 1985, c. C-42 )

The Copyright Policy Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Copyright Reform Process

Intellectual Property Policy Directorate of Industry Canada