Collegiate Gothic

Gothic forms adapted for schools and universities, with towers, battlements and stone trim.

Historic places
41Historic places
Built
1872–1965Built
Provinces and territories
8Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 10
  • Provincial 11
  • Municipal 20
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario12
  • Saskatchewan10
  • Alberta9
  • Manitoba4
  • British Columbia2
  • Newfoundland and Labrador2
  • New Brunswick1
  • Prince Edward Island1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1920s: 16 of the 39 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1872Lisgar Collegiate InstituteCity of, Ontario
  2. 1910College Building National Historic Site of CanadaSaskatoon, Saskatchewan
  3. 1910College Building, University of SaskatchewanSaskatoon, Saskatchewan

The register gives no construction date for 2 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 32 of these 41 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Brown and Vallance4 places
  2. Eustace G. Bird (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  3. H.M. and W.A. Whiddington2 places

All 41 places

Often found together

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