Fieldstone

Rough, uncut stones gathered from fields.

Historic places
212Historic places
Built
1668–1948Built
Provinces and territories
10Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 39
  • Provincial 71
  • Municipal 102
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Quebec88
  • Ontario39
  • Saskatchewan36
  • Manitoba22
  • Alberta9
  • New Brunswick5
  • Prince Edward Island5
  • Nova Scotia4
  • British Columbia2
  • Newfoundland and Labrador2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 26 of the 173 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1668Maison Saint-Gabriel National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec
  2. 1669LeBer-LeMoyne House National Historic Site of CanadaLachine, Quebec
  3. 1684Saint-Sulpice Seminary and its Garden National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 39 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 59 of these 212 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  2. C.B. Chappell (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  3. Department of Mines and Resources3 places
  4. R.B. Pratt (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  5. Alf Broadhurst2 places
  6. Brown and Vallance2 places

All 212 places

Often found together

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