Chinese Canadians

Chinese immigrants, Chinatowns and Chinese-Canadian history.

Historic places
126Historic places
Built
1834–1986Built
Provinces and territories
7Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 6
  • Provincial 26
  • Municipal 94
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia113
  • Alberta3
  • New Brunswick3
  • Quebec3
  • Saskatchewan2
  • Manitoba1
  • Ontario1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 26 of the 105 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1834Église de la Mission-Catholique-Chinoise-du-Saint-EspritMontréal, Quebec
  2. 1855Pioneer Square ParkVictoria, British Columbia
  3. 1859Quesnel ForksQuesnel Forks, British Columbia

The register gives no construction date for 21 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 63 of these 126 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. W.H. Chow (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  2. C. Elwood Watkins (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  3. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  4. D.C. Frame (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  5. Samuel Buttrey Birds (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  6. W.T. Whiteway (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 126 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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