Colourful exteriors

Exterior walls or trim painted in bright, distinctive colours.

Historic places
294Historic places
Built
1753–1975Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 157
  • Provincial 52
  • Municipal 85
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Nova Scotia43
  • British Columbia40
  • Newfoundland and Labrador38
  • Ontario38
  • Prince Edward Island38
  • Quebec38
  • Alberta20
  • New Brunswick16
  • Manitoba12
  • Saskatchewan9
  • Northwest Territories1
  • Nunavut1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 48 of the 272 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1753Old Town Lunenburg Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaLunenburg, Nova Scotia
  2. 1758LighttowerSambro Island, Nova Scotia
  3. 1786Randall HouseWolfville, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 22 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 78 of these 294 places. These names come up most often.

  1. Department of Marine and Fisheries18 places
  2. J.T. Nevill3 places
  3. Dept of Transport3 places
  4. Engineering Branch3 places
  5. Department of Marine2 places
  6. Department of Transport2 places

All 294 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection