National Historic Site
In 1917, Fort Anne was acquired by the Dominion Parks Branch, the predecessor organization to Parks Canada, and was designated as Canada's second "National Historic Park" (Fort Howe in Saint John, New Brunswick was the first). Two years later, a new national program of National Historic Sites of Canada was established in 1919 to replace the incipient system of historic parks, and Fort Anne was designated a National Historic Site in 1920.
Although Fort Anne was neither the first National Historic Park (Fort Howe was designated three years earlier), nor was it the first site designated under the replacement National Historic Site program, it is nonetheless sometimes referred to as Canada's "first national historic site" or the "first administered national historic site", because it was the first site acquired by the federal government for national historic purposes that has subsequently remained under Parks Canada administration (Fort Howe was eventually conveyed to the municipality).
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