Education and Social Well-Being

Schools, hospitals and social welfare.

Historic places
824Historic places
Built
1668–2023Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 70
  • Provincial 162
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 591
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia149
  • New Brunswick136
  • Ontario105
  • Saskatchewan101
  • Nova Scotia76
  • Quebec75
  • Manitoba71
  • Prince Edward Island37
  • Alberta36
  • Newfoundland and Labrador34
  • Northwest Territories3
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 139 of the 704 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1668Maison Saint-Gabriel National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec
  2. 1671Hôpital-Général de Québec Monastery National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1692Grey Nuns' Hospital National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 120 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 315 of these 824 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Samuel Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  2. John Teague (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  3. James Charles Dumaresq (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  4. J.B. Mitchell (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  5. J.H.G. Russell (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  6. Nazaire Dugas3 places

All 824 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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