Explore outdoors

Parks, cemeteries, monuments and grounds you can walk around.

Historic places
730Historic places
Built
1605–2002Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 115
  • Provincial 137
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 477
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia134
  • New Brunswick109
  • Quebec108
  • Ontario83
  • Saskatchewan72
  • Newfoundland and Labrador60
  • Nova Scotia60
  • Manitoba46
  • Prince Edward Island40
  • Alberta15
  • Northwest Territories2
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 50 of the 415 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  2. 1620Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1629Fort Anne National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 315 of these places.

All 730 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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