Carved stone

Carved stone ornament, sculpture, gargoyles or decorative stone panels.

Historic places
1,048Historic places
Built
1647–2000Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 254
  • Provincial 254
  • Municipal 540
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Quebec262
  • Ontario223
  • New Brunswick125
  • Manitoba113
  • British Columbia79
  • Nova Scotia67
  • Alberta58
  • Saskatchewan48
  • Prince Edward Island37
  • Newfoundland and Labrador35
  • Northwest Territories1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 161 of the 926 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1647Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1665Fort Chambly National Historic Site of CanadaChambly, Quebec
  3. 1675Séminaire de QuébecQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 122 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 726 of these 1,048 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)16 places
  2. Storey and Van Egmond15 places
  3. Department of Public Works14 places
  4. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)13 places
  5. William Thomas (biography, opens in a new tab)12 places
  6. John D. Atchison (biography, opens in a new tab)10 places

All 1,048 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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