Here's a strange one.
The National Trust of Canada reports that Parks Canada will shut down the Canadian Register of Historic Places, "an online searchable database of historic places in Canada which have been formally recognized for their heritage value by federal, provincial, municipal or territorial authorities." It records more than 13,000 such places across the country. It will cease to function in the spring of 2026, according to Parks Canada.
For the time being you can still search the fed's Register yourself at historicplaces.ca. The National Trust report includes a list of federal and provincial ministers and agencies you can complain to.
Update, February 5. The CBC reports that within 24 hours some tech-smart guy named Stephen Taylor, who did not like this plan, simply scraped all the data on the Register and reposted it all on a new site of his own creation called Heritage Guide Canada, with many new features and a cleaner modern interface. It's free to all - as the old one is. If the feds want it back, he'd be happy to give it to them, he says.
