Fishing

Fishing, fish processing, fishing villages or whaling.

Historic places
313Historic places
Built
1550–1985Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 102
  • Provincial 112
  • Territorial 5
  • Municipal 94
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Newfoundland and Labrador133
  • Nova Scotia39
  • British Columbia37
  • Quebec36
  • New Brunswick28
  • Prince Edward Island17
  • Northwest Territories7
  • Ontario6
  • Nunavut5
  • Manitoba3
  • Yukon2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 33 of the 192 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1550Red Bay National Historic Site of CanadaRed Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
  2. 1696Bay Bulls Harbour Provincial Historic SiteBay Bulls, Newfoundland and Labrador
  3. 1713Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of CanadaLouisbourg, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 121 of these places.

All 313 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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