Extraction and Production

Resource extraction, farming and manufacturing.

Historic places
1,032Historic places
Built
1500–1980Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 211
  • Provincial 277
  • Territorial 5
  • Municipal 539
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia258
  • New Brunswick144
  • Quebec126
  • Ontario117
  • Alberta108
  • Newfoundland and Labrador66
  • Nova Scotia55
  • Manitoba49
  • Prince Edward Island39
  • Saskatchewan37
  • Yukon26
  • Northwest Territories4
  • Nunavut3

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 122 of the 727 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1500Red Cedar StumpSurrey, British Columbia
  2. 1550Red Bay National Historic Site of CanadaRed Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
  3. 1576Kodlunarn Island National Historic Site of CanadaKodlunarn Island, Nunavut

The register gives no construction date for 305 of these places.

All 1,032 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection