Edwardian

Simplified, solid early-twentieth-century design with classical detail, often a square plan and a hipped roof.

Historic places
434Historic places
Built
1832–1935Built
Provinces and territories
9Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 9
  • Provincial 31
  • Municipal 394
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia299
  • Alberta52
  • Ontario35
  • New Brunswick18
  • Saskatchewan14
  • Manitoba10
  • Prince Edward Island4
  • Nova Scotia1
  • Quebec1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 219 of the 404 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1832New Edinburgh Heritage Conservation DistrictNew Edinburgh, Ontario
  2. 1840New Hamburg Heritage Conservation DistrictTownship of Wilmot, Ontario
  3. 1851Henry Howard Meredith HousePort Hope, Ontario

The register gives no construction date for 30 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 216 of these 434 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)10 places
  2. Parr and Fee10 places
  3. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  4. Francis Mawson Rattenbury (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  5. W.T. Whiteway (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  6. Hooper and Watkins5 places

All 434 places

Often found together

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