The Quebec Cultural Heritage Directory (
French: ''Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec'') is an online
cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by socie ...
knowledge dissemination tool for the
province
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of
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
.
The directory is maintained by the province's
Ministry of Culture and Communications.
The Cultural Heritage Directory encompasses the heritage properties, items, and elements (buildings/structures (immovable objects), movable objects, people, and events) listed on the Québec Cultural Heritage Registry (), as well as detailed information about heritage aspects which have been inventoried by the Ministry of Culture and Communications or by its partner organizations.
These are updated forms and roles of both the Directory (Répertoire) and the Registry (Registre) that were created under the authority of the Cultural Heritage Act (), passed into law on October 19, 2011, and that went into legal effect a year later, on October 19, 2012. This act replaced the Cultural Property Act () of 1972.
History
Cultural Property Act of 1972
The registry under this previous act contained buildings and structures, as well as smaller objects such as documents, artifacts, and works of art. The objective of the Répertoire was to "identify, preserve, and make known the heritage of all regions of Quebec". Those properties which were protected under the Cultural Property Act of 1972 () were included on the Register of Cultural Property (). Under the 1972 law, the ''Répertoire'' included the ''Registre'', which contained information about natural and
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
s, property protected by municipalities, commemorative plaques, the components of buildings or sites protected, as well as property in the inventory. A listing on the ''Répertoire'' did not itself give a site any legal protection. In 2010, there were 761 properties protected under the Cultural Property Act of 1972, by the provincial government,
and approximately 60,000 properties which had been protected under the law by municipal governments.
See also
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List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Quebec
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Maison Joseph-Gauvreau
References
External links
Search the Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec Search the Canadian Register of Historic Places for Quebec sites
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Heritage registers in Canada
Government of Quebec