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Mar 10, 2020 · The map below indicates the location of World Heritage Sites in Canada. Click on individual points to learn a site’s name, the year it was designated, and what the site includes. World Heritage Sites are created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). There are 22 World Heritage Sites in Canada.
The Bois-du-Luc colliery and company town in Houdeng-Aimeries – La Louvière. UNESCO World Heritage. Saving the glazed arcade. The Bois-du-Luc mining site was operated by the Société des charbonnages de Bois-du-Luc between 1685 and 1973.
There are 22 World Heritage Sites in Canada, with a further 10 on the tentative list. The first two sites in Canada added to the list were L'Anse aux Meadows and Nahanni National Park Reserve, both at the Second Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Washington, D.C., in 1978.
Since 1976 when Canada joined the World Heritage Convention, 22 of our country’s most cherished heritage sites have met the criteria to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. They represent some of humanity’s most outstanding achievements and nature’s most inspiring creations.
This is part of the Major Mining Sites of Wallonia, designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2012. One of those houses can be visited, together with a couple of museums retracing the history of the coal mining industry in the Centre region.
Globally, UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites include places such as the Egyptian Pyramids, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and the Great Wall of China. There are 18 World Heritage sites located in Canada and there are another six sites on Canada’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.
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The Government of Canada has updated the country’s Tentative List for World Heritage Sites, an inventory of natural and cultural heritage properties with strong potential to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
