Cultural landscapes

A landscape shaped by people and valued as a whole, such as dykelands, field patterns or a historic townscape.

Historic places
373Historic places
Built
1605–1986Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 160
  • Provincial 51
  • Territorial 2
  • Municipal 160
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia96
  • Quebec74
  • Ontario61
  • Newfoundland and Labrador39
  • Nova Scotia25
  • Manitoba20
  • Alberta19
  • New Brunswick17
  • Saskatchewan6
  • Northwest Territories5
  • Nunavut4
  • Prince Edward Island4
  • Yukon3

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1880s: 41 of the 256 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  2. 1629Fort Anne National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  3. 1664Melanson Settlement National Historic Site of CanadaLower Granville, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 117 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 124 of these 373 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Blackadder and MacKay12 places
  2. Noble Stonestreet Hoffar (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  3. Edward Maxwell (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  4. C. Elwood Watkins (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  5. Department of Public Works3 places
  6. Frederick G. Todd2 places

All 373 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection