Architecture and Design

Architectural style, design and craftsmanship.

Historic places
7,187Historic places
Built
1605–2004Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 888
  • Provincial 1,578
  • Territorial 5
  • Municipal 4,716
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick1,349
  • Quebec1,123
  • British Columbia929
  • Ontario857
  • Prince Edward Island774
  • Nova Scotia682
  • Newfoundland and Labrador445
  • Saskatchewan434
  • Manitoba300
  • Alberta266
  • Yukon25
  • Northwest Territories3

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 965 of the 5,577 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  2. 1608Fortifications of Québec National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1647Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 1,610 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 2,444 of these 7,187 places. These names come up most often.

Names marked ↗ open their entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800–1950.

  1. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)33 places
  2. Storey and Van Egmond29 places
  3. Samuel Maclure (biography, opens in a new tab)22 places
  4. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)20 places
  5. J.H.G. Russell (biography, opens in a new tab)19 places
  6. Edward Maxwell (biography, opens in a new tab)18 places

All 7,187 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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