Municipal Register of Cultural Heritage Properties

The Municipal Register is the official list of properties that have been identified as being culturally or historically important to the community. The Register helps the City keep track of its cultural heritage resources and plan for their conservation.

The Register includes key information on all the buildings, structures, landscapes and districts that have been designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. The Register also includes "non-designated" properties that have cultural heritage value or interest. The listing of non-designated properties provides interim protection for sites undergoing change by requiring owners to provide the City with at least 60 days notice of their intention to demolish or remove a building or structure on the property. This notice period allows the City to make a well informed decision about whether long term protection of the property should be sought through the formal designation process.

Inclusion on the Municipal Register as a "non-designated property" does not mean your property is being desingated. Also the process for renovating a building has not changed.

Designated Properties on the Municipal Register of Cultural Heritage Properties

Non-Designated Properties on the Municipal Register of Cultural Heritage Properties

Provincial information sheet about the Municipal Register of Cultural Heritage Properties 

 Report Expansion of the Municipal Register of Cultural Heritage Properties to Include Non-Designated Burcher-Stokes Properties Including a Review Process - March 30, 2009

A process has been set up to review requests to either consider corrections to listed information and/or removal of a property from the register. Property owners who feel that information included on the Municipal Register is incorrect or that a property does not in fact have cultural or heritage value can apply to have the listing corrected or removed. Please see the documents below for the Review Process Guidelines and Application Form.