Gardens and grounds

Gardens, landscaped grounds or a park designed around the place.

Historic places
1,043Historic places
Built
1620–2000Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 253
  • Provincial 203
  • Territorial 3
  • Municipal 584
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia264
  • Quebec211
  • Ontario192
  • New Brunswick82
  • Saskatchewan76
  • Nova Scotia56
  • Manitoba55
  • Prince Edward Island49
  • Alberta32
  • Newfoundland and Labrador19
  • Yukon6
  • Northwest Territories1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 164 of the 863 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1620Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1660Manoir de CharlevilleBoischatel, Quebec
  3. 1671Hôpital-Général de Québec Monastery National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 180 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 490 of these 1,043 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Samuel Maclure (biography, opens in a new tab)8 places
  2. Maurice W Sharon (biography, opens in a new tab)8 places
  3. Department of Public Works8 places
  4. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  5. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  6. William Lyon Mackenzie King6 places

All 1,043 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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