Heritage Properties of Canada (HPOC) is an entrepreneurial initiative aimed at raising awareness of heritage property topics in Canada while providing an informative and visual experience for visitors.  The website is focused on the appreciation of Canadian heritage properties, including homes, lands and parks, commercial buildings, public structures, and personal property such as vehicles, antiques and collectibles. We regularly publish well-researched articles on the diverse heritage of Canada, in English and occasionally in French.  Our goal is to make the site fully bilingual. We also feature some video tours of heritage places. Plus, HPOC has created an original product – Canadian Vistas Ambient Nature Videos, a streaming service showcasing awe-inspiring footage of our country’s great natural spaces, offered for a...

Dr. Jordan Chase, who holds a PhD in History, guides us through the fascinating heritage of Bon Echo Provincial Park and the significance of the famous Mazinaw Rock that has been a meeting place since time immemorial, where culture, history and art intersect.  This article accompanies the launch of the Canadian Vistas Ambient Nature Videos streaming service, which features footage of the Rock lit up at sunset. Photos in the article, unless otherwise indicated, are of scenes from the "Mazinaw Rock Spotlight" video.

The Prime Minister's Official Residence at 24 Sussex Drive is the subject of much debate over its future.  HPOC invited Andrew Narraway, a recent history graduate from Carleton University, to share his research on the little-known origins of this prominent Canadian heritage property.   By Andrew Narraway, M.A. The house that sits on the south bank of the Ottawa river at 24 Sussex Drive was not always simply known by its address. For years, the house went by its original name “Gorffwysfa,” meaning place or haven of rest in Welsh, a title bestowed by its original owner; Joseph Merrill Currier. The house was to be many things to Currier in its early days. Primarily, it was a representation of his life as...

This inaugural article by Heritage Properties of Canada by no means covers the rich history of the pioneering of Elizabethtown-Kitley, but instead ‘paints’ an impression of this early Canadian settlement area in Eastern Ontario between 1790 – 1870, with a focus on the pioneers’ stone homes.  The driving tour will inspire the tourist to experience a rural heritage location that, rarely seen in today’s ever-changing environments, has remained remarkably similar in nature to the way it was before Canada’s Confederation.