Government and Institutions

Government administration and public institutions.

Historic places
729Historic places
Built
1605–1977Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 261
  • Provincial 148
  • Territorial 2
  • Municipal 318
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario176
  • British Columbia103
  • Saskatchewan94
  • New Brunswick84
  • Quebec78
  • Nova Scotia56
  • Manitoba44
  • Prince Edward Island33
  • Alberta31
  • Newfoundland and Labrador19
  • Yukon11

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 106 of the 661 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 68 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 463 of these 729 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)32 places
  2. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)26 places
  3. Department of Public Works23 places
  4. Storey and Van Egmond12 places
  5. T.W. Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)11 places
  6. Thomas Seaton Scott (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places

All 729 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection