Granite

Granite masonry.

Historic places
131Historic places
Built
1758–1986Built
Provinces and territories
10Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 27
  • Provincial 17
  • Municipal 87
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia29
  • New Brunswick25
  • Quebec25
  • Ontario14
  • Newfoundland and Labrador12
  • Nova Scotia11
  • Manitoba10
  • Alberta2
  • Saskatchewan2
  • Prince Edward Island1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 26 of the 115 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1758LighttowerSambro Island, Nova Scotia
  2. 1819Black-Binney HouseHalifax, Nova Scotia
  3. 1828Lock #5, Shubenacadie CanalWellington, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 16 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 71 of these 131 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Edward Maxwell (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  2. Samuel Maclure (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  3. H. Claire Mott (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  4. Louis-Napoléon Audet (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  5. René-Pamphile Lemay (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  6. Ernest Cormier (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 131 places

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