A practical approach for evaluating cultural heritage landscapes: Lesson from rural Ontario

This article focus on the need to identify cultural heritage landscape in the Waterloo region. A cultural heritage landscape is \“a defined geographical area of heritage significance which has been modified by human activities and is valued by a community. It involves a grouping(s) of individual heritage features such as structures, spaces, archaeological sites and natural elements, which together form a significant type of heritage form, distinctive from that of its constituent elements or parts. (Government of Ontario, 2008). The focus of the article is on the West Montrose Bridge, which is the last covered bridge in the area. The article focuses on a few key questions; one, seeing if the area meets the definition, two, what do people feel are important, and three, and what geographical area is significant. Thus being a good candidate to be declared a cultural heritage site.