E-7594 Transfer stewardship of historic places register Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7594 — Transfer stewardship of historic places register — with 2,414 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Yasir Naqvi. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7594
Petition Details
- Status: Closed
- Closing date: August 26, 2026
- Sponsor: Yasir Naqvi (Ottawa Centre)
- Category: Culture and heritage
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 2,414
- Daily increase: +92 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +347 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~50 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: July 27, 2026 — 183 data points recorded
Milestones
- 1,000 signatures reached on July 30, 2026 — total at that point: 1,006
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on July 28, 2026 — total at that point: 566
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 1,026 signatures
- British Columbia: 486 signatures
- Alberta: 235 signatures
- Quebec: 217 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 124 signatures
- Manitoba: 97 signatures
- New Brunswick: 88 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 61 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 28 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 22 signatures
- Yukon: 7 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 1 signatures
- Nunavut: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| July 27, 2026 | 25 |
| July 30, 2026 | 998 |
| August 1, 2026 | 1,223 |
| August 3, 2026 | 1,306 |
| August 6, 2026 | 1,490 |
| August 8, 2026 | 1,635 |
| August 10, 2026 | 1,798 |
| August 13, 2026 | 1,912 |
| August 15, 2026 | 1,982 |
| August 17, 2026 | 2,031 |
| August 20, 2026 | 2,108 |
| August 23, 2026 | 2,258 |
| August 26, 2026 | 2,401 |
| August 26, 2026 | 2,414 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• The Canadian Register of Historic Places (the Register) is the only pan-Canadian, publicly accessible record of more than 13,500 historic places recognized by federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal authorities;
• The Register is relied upon by planners, architects, developers, educators, and the public as an authoritative source of information about Canada's historic places;
• The federal government has stepped back from hosting and operating the Register, and it now faces imminent decommissioning;
• Losing the Register would fragment a nationally significant public data set, eliminate public access and search functionality, and create a lasting reputational and operational risk for the federal government;
• Canada's historic places, from Indigenous landscapes and lighthouses to the homes, workplaces and public spaces of past and future Canadians, embody our shared stories, national identity, institutions, and traditions, and deserve to be preserved for generations to come;
• The National Trust for Canada is uniquely positioned to steward the Register as Canada’s only national charity dedicated to preserving and promoting historic places; and
• A renewed Canadian Register of Historic Places could embed Canadian-based hosting and data sovereignty, accessibility to all Canadians, bilingualism and reconciliation principles.
We, the undersigned, Citizens or residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to transfer stewardship of the Canadian Register of Historic Places to the National Trust for Canada and provide a one-time federal endowment to permanently stabilize and modernize it.
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