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Cape Spear National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan Cape Spear national historic site of canada Management Plan april 2004 Cape Spear national historic site of canada Management Plan ii ©Her Majesty the Queen in National Library of Canada Right of Canada, represented by cataloguing in publication data the Chief Executive Offi cer of Parks Canada, 2004. Parks Canada Cape Spear National Historic Site of Cette publication est aussi Canada management plan disponible en français. Issued also in French under title: Lieu historique national du Canada For more information about the Site du Cap-Spear – plan directeur. management plan or about Cape Spear National Historic Site of Canada: ISBN 0-662-36180-6 CAT. NO. R64-284/2004E Cape Spear National Historic Site of Canada 1. Cape Spear National Historic Site Superintendent (Nfl d.) – Management. P.O. Box 1268 2. National parks and reserves St. John’s, NL – Newfoundland – Management. Canada A1C 5M9 3. National parks and reserves – Canada – Management. 4. Historic sites – Canada TEL: 709-772-5367 – Management. FAX: 709-772-6302 I. Parks Canada. Atlantic Service [email protected] Centre. www.parkscanada.gc.ca FC2164.C36P47 2004 333.78’09718 C2004-980092-2 Front Cover Image Credits TOP: Parks Canada MIDDLE, LEFT: Pam Coristine 2000 MIDDLE, RIGHT: Pam Coristine 1998 BOTTOM: Bill Hockey 2001 BACKGROUND: André Cornellier 1991 Cape Spear iii National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan Foreword Canada’s national parks, national historic sites and national marine conservation areas represent the soul of Canada. They are a central part of who we are and what we are. They are places of magic and wonder and heritage. Each tells its own story. Together, they connect Canadians to our roots, to our future and to each other. What we cherish as part of our national identity, we also recognize as part of our national responsibility. All Canadians share the obligation to preserve and protect Canada’s unique cultural and natural heritage. Together, we hold our national parks, national historic sites and national marine conservation areas in trust for the benefi t of this and future generations. To achieve this, practical action grounded in long-term thinking is needed. These principles form the foundation of this new management plan for Cape Spear National Historic Site of Canada. May I offer my deep appreciation to the vast range of thoughtful Canadians who helped forge this plan. I am especially grateful to our very dedicated team from Parks Canada and to all those local organizations and individuals who have demonstrated such good will, hard work, spirit of co-operation and extraordinary sense of stewardship. In that same spirit of partnership and responsibility, I am pleased to approve the Cape Spear National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan. David Anderson Minister of the Environment iv Cape Spear v National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan Recommendations Recommended by: Alan Latourelle Chief Executive Offi cer Parks Canada William (Bill) Brake Field Unit Superintendent Newfoundland East Field Unit, Parks Canada vi Cape Spear vii National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan Executive Summary The vision and management direction including fi re and that addresses outlined in this management plan serve security needs to ensure the commemorative integrity of • Assess proposed site developments using Cape Spear National Historic Site of Canada. the Site’s commemorative integrity The statement of commemorative intent statement and Parks Canada’s Cultural for the Site, the programs in place for the Resource Management Policy; assess and protection and presentation of the heritage mitigate visually obtrusive site elements as values of the Site, the fi nancial capability they are recapitalized or replaced of the Field Unit and the Site’s role as a • Provide input to the planning processes cultural and natural destination have all of other municipal, provincial and federal contributed to the development of this agencies to encourage land use adjacent management direction. Major additions or to the Site that is compatible with the Site’s physical changes to the Site are not proposed commemorative integrity values at this time; the fundamentals at Cape Spear • Submit the former lightkeepers’ National Historic Site of Canada are for the residence/visitor centre to the Federal most part fi tting. Some aspects of the Site’s Heritage Building Review Offi ce for heritage presentation program need to be evaluation refocused and some of the Site’s facilities • Ensure the appropriate protection and need to be evaluated to determine if they are management of site archaeological appropriate and if they can accommodate resources and landscape vestiges future visitors. Future changes must be associated with lightkeeping and sure to respect the public’s desire to not defence by establishing and maintaining overdevelop or commercialize the Site and to an inventory of the resources, monitoring ensure better care of the Site’s Second World the resources, and respecting these War coastal defence complex. Off-site, Parks resources in site planning and Canada needs to engage Canadians more by management being more effective and proactive in external • Evaluate conservation options for the communications. stabilization of the Second World War coastal defence complex Key management direction: • Work with external agencies or organizations to ensure that heritage Heritage Protection values of Cape Spear NHSC are • Create a Site Dossier, including updated understood and respected information about current and past management decisions and actions On-site Heritage Presentation affecting the Site’s historic structures and • Develop a Heritage Presentation Plan that other in-situ cultural resources fi lls gaps and refocuses efforts toward the • Develop and implement a Conservation new commemorative integrity statement, and Maintenance Plan for the Site’s built and revise the heritage presentation offer heritage and historic objects; develop in accordance with this Plan and implement a Disaster Emergency • Develop an enhanced orientation area that Response Plan for historic objects, that contributes to the objectives of the includes assessment of risk from threats Heritage Presentation Plan viii • Work with others to offer proposed Visitor services additions to on-site programming • Develop a Site Development Plan that assesses existing facilities and services, Outreach and recommends action to recapitalize • Develop a comprehensive school program facilities and provide new facilities or in conjunction with school curricula and in services at Cape Spear NHSC collaboration with the Parks Canada • Strive to ensure public safety at Cape National School Curriculum Program to Spear NHSC, by communicating be delivered on-site and off-site messages to visitors on-site, using • Improve the Cape Spear NHSC Web site outreach and marketing to prepare to serve as the primary external relations prospective visitors for their visit, and by tool updating and implementing the Public • Guide, encourage and support the Safety Plan development of material by Parks Canada • Evaluate and/or screen any new or by others that provides information developments or operational activities about the system of national heritage using the Site’s commemorative integrity protected areas, Cape Spear NHSC or statement, Parks Canada’s Cultural themes related to the heritage values of Resource Management Policy and the Cape Spear NHSC Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Marketing Research • Revise and update Cape Spear NHSC • Develop a comprehensive and consistent marketing information for both internal means of gathering visitor information and external use to better suit target and evaluating on-site interpretation and audiences, to refl ect site, corporate and outreach efforts, through continued use system messages and to incorporate of visitor satisfaction surveys and public safety messages comment cards and other means • Cross-promote other heritage attractions • Work with others to learn more about with links to Cape Spear NHSC in the tourism and travel trends at the regional region and at other Parks Canada sites and national levels • Work on an ongoing basis with others involved in tourism marketing or Working with others provision of tourism services in the • Continue to build on and support the province to ensure their marketing efforts current partnership with the Historic are respectful of Parks Canada’s objectives Sites Association of Newfoundland and and the national historic signifi cance of Labrador Cape Spear NHSC • Seek partnerships for new initiatives identifi ed in this plan, with a priority Natural Resources on activities and actions that contribute to • Update the Natural Resource Inventory achieving commemorative integrity and Evaluation for Cape Spear NHSC • Consult and involve site partners in proposals that affect their operations • Explore options for management of the property currently located within Cape Spear NHSC owned by Fisheries and Oceans Canada Cape Spear ix National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan Table of Contents Foreword .......................................................................................................................... iii Recommendations............................................................................................................... v Executive Summary........................................................................................................... vii 1.0 Introduction 1.1 The Goal of Management Planning...........................................................................1
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