CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Canada’s Tentative List includes eleven properties that have the best potential to:

• Be judged of “outstanding universal value” by meeting at least one of ten criteria;

• Meet the test of authenticity and/or integrity;

• Meet stringent management and legal requirements;

• Have the support of stakeholders.

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Criteria:i. Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;

ii. Exhibit an important interchange of human values … or developments in architecture, or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;

iii. Bear a unique … testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;

iv. Be an outstanding example of a type of building or architectural or technical ensemble or landscape which illustrates a significant stage in human history;

Criteria:v. Be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement land-use or

sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures) or human interaction with the environment ...

vi. Be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works … preferably used with other criteria;

vii. Contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;

Criteria:viii. Be outstanding examples representing major stages of the earth’s history,

including record of life, significant on-going geological processes indevelopment of land forms or significant geomorphic or physiographic features;

ix. Be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals;

x. Contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value …

Authenticity and/or integrity:• Meet the test of authenticity in design, material, workmanship or setting and in the case of cultural landscapes their distinctive character and components;

• Fulfill conditions of integrity specific to each criterion.

Management and legal requirements:• Have adequate legal and/or contractual and/or traditional protection and management mechanisms to ensure its conservation.

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

QuttinirpaaqNunavut

This is a land of desolation and splendour on a grand scale, and also a place of intimate, fragile beauty. Here also is evidence of the earliest human occupations of the northernmost tip of North America.

Criteria suggested: iii, vii, viii and x

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

ivvavik/vuntut/herschelisland

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Ivvavik/Vuntut/Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk)Yukon

High mountains, boreal forest, tundra, and expansive wetlands come together to form the living fabric of the arctic wilderness.This land illustrates the very early human occupation of northwest North America, and the adaptation of Aboriginal cultural traditions to extreme environments.

Criteria suggested: iv, v, vii, viii and x

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

The KlondikeYukon and British Columbia

The Klondike represents the most comprehensive and intact of all the cultural landscapes that illustrate life before, during and after the world’s great 19th century gold rushes.

Criteria suggested: iv, v

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Gwaii HaanasBritish Columbia

Gwaii Haanas represents more than 10,000 years of connection between land, sea and Haida culture. It possesses undisturbed old‐growth temperate rain forest and a diverse marine life, and is a “natural laboratory” for the study of island ecology, biogeography and evolution.

Criteria suggested: iii, v, vi, vii, ix and x

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Áísínai’pi (Writing-on-Stone)Alberta

Áísínai’pi contains the largest concentration of rock art and the most complex images on the Great Plains of North America.

Criteria suggested: i, iii, and iv

atikaki/woodlandcaribou/

accord firstnations

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Atikaki/Woodland Caribou/Accord First NationsManitoba and Ontario

This quintessential Canadian Shield wilderness is an outstanding boreal forest, with a rich diversity of plants and wildlife in a landscape that speaks to the traditional lifeways of the Anishinabe.

Criteria suggested: v, vii, ix and x

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Grand-PréNova Scotia

Grand-Pré is the emotional and spiritual centre for the Acadian people, and the most important “lieu de la mémoire acadienne.”

Criteria suggested: iii, iv and vi

JogginsNova Scotia

Joggins is the world’s richest, most representative and most significant Coal Age fossil site.

Criterion suggested: viii

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Mistaken PointNewfoundland and Labrador

Mistaken Point possesses the world’s earliest record of multi‐cellular life in ancient oceans.

Criterion suggested: viii

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Red BayNewfoundland and Labrador

Red Bay is the most complete and best‐preserved example known of a 16th century Basque whaling station.

Criteria suggested: iii, iv and v

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Rideau CanalOntario

The Rideau Canal includes the 202‐km‐long canal built in 1826‐1832 as part of Britain’s strategy for the defence of British North America, and its associated cultural landscape.

Criteria suggested: i, ii and iv

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

CANADA’S TENTATIVE LISTfor World Heritage Sites

Áísínai’pi (Writing-on-Stone)Atikaki/Woodland Caribou/

Accord First NationsGrand-PréGwaii HaanasIvvavik/Vuntut/Herschel

Island (Qikiqtaruk)

JogginsThe KlondikeMistaken PointQuttinirpaaqRed BayRideau Canal