Brick

Brick walls or brick cladding.

Historic places
3,083Historic places
Built
1775–1992Built
Provinces and territories
10Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 475
  • Provincial 363
  • Municipal 2,245
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario802
  • British Columbia552
  • New Brunswick386
  • Manitoba331
  • Quebec268
  • Saskatchewan266
  • Alberta182
  • Nova Scotia133
  • Prince Edward Island113
  • Newfoundland and Labrador50

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 609 of the 2,695 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1775Chapman House National Historic Site of CanadaCumberland, Nova Scotia
  2. 1781Maison des GouverneursSorel-Tracy, Quebec
  3. 1785Ward HouseCentreville, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 388 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 1,484 of these 3,083 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Department of Public Works35 places
  2. Storey and Van Egmond29 places
  3. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)25 places
  4. T.W. Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)22 places
  5. John Teague (biography, opens in a new tab)17 places
  6. J.H.G. Russell (biography, opens in a new tab)17 places

All 3,083 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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