Here we are concerned with evaluating how the "patterns of historical evolution," as the Ontario Heritage Foundation puts it, bear on delineating a Heritage District. The founding of the Town and the development of the 19th-century Business Core are historically inseparable from the creation of the rail and port terminus of the isthmus route and the boat-and-ship-building industries that shortly followed. The town already recognizes the heritage value of the remaining infrastructure left by those trade and industrial activities. It has acquired the old train station, now reconstructed as the Collingwood Museum, and the railway spit and grain elevator, now graced with commemorations of the shipping and ship-building industries. These heritage resources are separated from the B.I.A. boundary by one small commercially-zoned block, and are part of the Official Plan's Downtown Core.

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