Heritage districts

A recognized heritage conservation district or a cluster of historic buildings.

Historic places
1,173Historic places
Built
1605–1986Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 77
  • Provincial 202
  • Municipal 894
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia304
  • New Brunswick265
  • Quebec224
  • Manitoba105
  • Nova Scotia97
  • Ontario72
  • Newfoundland and Labrador44
  • Alberta24
  • Prince Edward Island20
  • Yukon12
  • Saskatchewan6

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1890s: 156 of the 930 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  2. 1608Site historique et archéologique de l'Habitation-Samuel-De ChamplainQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1647Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 243 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 452 of these 1,173 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Alexander Francis Dunlop (biography, opens in a new tab)15 places
  2. Blackadder and MacKay13 places
  3. John Teague (biography, opens in a new tab)10 places
  4. Noble Stonestreet Hoffar (biography, opens in a new tab)9 places
  5. J.H. Cadham (biography, opens in a new tab)9 places
  6. Parr and Fee8 places

All 1,173 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection