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News ReleasesTourism, Culture, Arts and RecreationHeart’s Content One Step
Closer to UNESCO World Heritage Status


HEART’S CONTENT ONE STEP CLOSER TO UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE STATUS

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February 28, 2023

Progress continues in the journey toward having the Heart’s Content Cable
Station Provincial Historic Site inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

On February 10, the nomination to add the Heart’s Content-Valentia, Ireland
transatlantic cable to the tentative list for consideration was officially
registered by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Paris.

UNESCO World Heritage nominations involving more than one country (i.e.,
transboundary submissions such as this one) are highly complex, including the
requirement for each country to be on their respective country’s Tentative List
for World Heritage. After five years of work, this requirement was finally met
in 2022 and the collective nomination was sent to UNESCO for official
registration.

As a result, both Heart’s Content and Valentia have been added the Tentative
List on the UNESCO World Heritage website.

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and Kerry County Council, Ireland
(as co-applicants) are in regular contact on advancing this nomination, and will
now begin preparing the comprehensive World Heritage Nomination dossier. This
will be a multi-year process. The next step is a strategic planning session this
spring to develop a detailed nomination work plan.

Newfoundland and Labrador currently has four official UNESCO World Heritage
sites: Gros Morne National Park, L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site,
Mistaken Point and Red Bay Basque Whaling Station.

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“So much hard work, dedication and passion has gone into the nomination process
for Heart’s Content-Valentia to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The
official registration of the nomination is a significant step towards our goal
of World Heritage inscription. Once achieved, it will undoubtedly have a
positive impact on the communities of Heart’s Content and Valentia.”
Honourable Steve Crocker
Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation

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BACKGROUNDER

UNESCO World Heritage Nomination – Heart’s Content/Valentia Cable Stations

The first successful Transatlantic cable was laid between Heart’s Content,
Newfoundland and Labrador and Valentia Island, Ireland in 1866. It was the
culmination of a grandiose mid-19th century American-British plan to connect
North America and Europe via an 1886 nautical mile submarine telegraph cable
along the Atlantic seabed. The idea was considered by many at that time to be
impossible.

Requiring ten years and five attempts, this world altering engineering and
scientific achievement (called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” at that time)
represents one of the major milestones in human history, engineering,
communications, and the birth of globalization. The ability to instantly and
accurately communicate between the old and new worlds resulted in commercial,
political, military, media, and social impacts around the world.

Permanent cable stations were built at Valentia (1868) and Heart’s Content
(current station dates from 1875/76) as the respective eastern and western
termini of the cable, establishing both communities as international
communications centres for over a century. Between 1866 and 1894, six different
cables were connected between Valentia and Heart’s Content.

The Heart’s Content and Valentia Cable Stations are the complete surviving
testament to the outstanding genius and perseverance behind this world altering
feat. The Heart’s Content Cable Station was designated a Provincial Historic
Site in 1974 and has been operated by GNL as a provincial telecommunications
museum ever since. It is arguably one of the best-preserved 19th century
telegraph cable stations worldwide.

Since 2013, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has been in regular
discussions with Valentia/Kerry County Council, Parks Canada (Canadian UNESCO
State Party) and the Irish Department of Heritage (Irish UNESCO State Party)
regarding a possible transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site nomination for the
Transatlantic Cable Ensemble: Valentia – Heart’s Content.

A UNESCO World Heritage transboundary submission requires both historic Cable
Stations to be included on their respective country’s Tentative List for World
Heritage Sites. The Heart’s Content Cable Station Provincial Historic Site was
named to Canada’s Tentative List in December 2017 and the Valentia Cable Station
was added to Ireland’s Tentative List in July 2022.

In November 2020, the communities of Heart’s Content and Valentia signed a
Declaration of Cooperation – an informal commitment to working cooperatively in
support of various efforts to commemorate and promote the historic links between
the two communities.

In September 2022, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation and
Kerry County Council, as co-applicants on the transboundary submission, signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalize the partnership required to
advance the nomination and ultimately achieve UNESCO World Heritage inscription.

 

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