Communications and Transportation

Roads, railways, waterways, mail and telecommunications.

Historic places
1,300Historic places
Built
1669–1979Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 517
  • Provincial 223
  • Territorial 2
  • Municipal 558
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia244
  • Ontario227
  • New Brunswick187
  • Quebec159
  • Nova Scotia115
  • Manitoba78
  • Saskatchewan73
  • Prince Edward Island72
  • Alberta67
  • Newfoundland and Labrador60
  • Yukon11
  • Northwest Territories4
  • Nunavut3

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 225 of the 1,092 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1669LeBer-LeMoyne House National Historic Site of CanadaLachine, Quebec
  2. 1693Moose Factory Buildings National Historic Site of CanadaNorth, Ontario
  3. 1697Signal Hill National Historic Site of CanadaSt. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

The register gives no construction date for 208 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 433 of these 1,300 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 Marine and Fisheries32 places
  2. R.B. Pratt (biography, opens in a new tab)13 places
  3. Edward Maxwell (biography, opens in a new tab)11 places
  4. Royal Engineers10 places
  5. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  6. Noble Stonestreet Hoffar (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places

All 1,300 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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