Ontario Heritage Tool Kit

The Ontario Heritage Tool Kit is a series of guides for municipal councils, municipal staff, Municipal Heritage Committees, land use planners, heritage professionals, heritage organizations, property owners and others. It was designed to help them understand the heritage conservation process in Ontario. It explains the Ontario Heritage Act, the Planning Act, and related programs.

You can download the entire Ontario Heritage Tool Kit or individual titles:

• Your Community, Your Heritage, Your Committee is a guide to establishing and sustaining an effective Municipal Heritage Committee
• Heritage Property Evaluation is a guide to listing, researching and evaluating cultural heritage property in Ontario communities
• Designating Heritage Properties is a guide to municipal designation of individual properties under the Ontario Heritage Act
• Heritage Conservation Districts is a guide to district designation under the Ontario Heritage Act
• Heritage Resources in the Land Use Planning Process explains cultural heritage and archaeology policies of the Ontario Provincial Policy Statement, 2005
• Heritage Places of Worship is a guide to assist in the conservation and protection of all heritage places of worship in Ontario. (The Guide is only available electronically)

You can get hard copies of the Ontario Heritage Toolkit and its individual titles:

• Online from Publications Ontario
• By calling 1-800-668-9938
• At a ServiceOntario Centre
  Toronto
  ServiceOntario Centre
  College Park Building
  777 Bay Street, Market Level, M5G 2C8
  
  Ottawa
  ServiceOntario Centre
  Ottawa City Hall
  110 Laurier Avenue West, K1P 1J1