Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

New Designations

The Designations approved on January 12, 2010 by the Minister of the Environment

National Historic Sites:

• Dominion Astrophysical Observatory National Historic Site of Canada, Victoria, British Columbia
• Canadian Car & Foundry National Historic Site of Canada, Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Maison Gabrielle-Roy National Historic Site of Canada, Saint-Boniface, Manitoba *

National Historic Persons:

• Abraham Albert Heaps (1885-1954)
• Sigtryggur Jónasson (1852-1942)
• Ernest Melville DuPorte (1891-1981)
• Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812)
• Sir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield (1875-1940)
• Israel Isaac Kahanovitch (1872-1945)
• Helena Gutteridge (1879-1960)

National Historic Events:

• The Refugees of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
• Good Shepherd Sisters of Québec

* Designated in advance of approval of the December 2008 Minutes