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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Travelling the Route from Designation to Local Action: The Case of the Underground Railroad Settlement in Buxton, Ontario, Canada |
Author: | Pollock-Ellwand, N. |
Citation: | International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2006; 12(4):372-388 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
ISSN: | 1352-7258 1470-3610 |
Abstract: | Canada’s Buxton Settlement National Historic Site is a striking illustration of the multi‐faceted conservation of a cultural landscape, from federal designation through to local action. Buxton is designated as a ‘continuing landscape’ distinguished by its establishment in 1849 as a 9,000 acre (3,600 ha) 1 terminus for black fugitives travelling north along the so‐called Underground Railroad, escaping the tyranny of slavery in the USA. A social experiment, in the form of a block farming settlement, waited for them at the end of their journeys. Over the intervening years inevitable shifts in agricultural practice and property ownership have transformed this rather ordinary but strongly evocative heritage resource. This is a case common to many other significant cultural landscapes—the management of the inevitable evolution that comes with a landscape that continues. This agricultural landscape confronts many of the challenges that are the focus of heritage studies today: how to give local people a voice while coordinating conservation across multiple scales of government policy. |
Keywords: | Cultural Landscapes Conservation Policy Local Action Underground Railroad Canada |
Description: | © 2006 Taylor & Francis |
DOI: | 10.1080/13527250600726937 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527250600726937 |
Appears in Collections: | Architecture publications Aurora harvest |
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