Main streets

A commercial main street, downtown core or streetscape.

Historic places
1,956Historic places
Built
1605–1994Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 241
  • Provincial 247
  • Territorial 4
  • Municipal 1,464
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia641
  • Ontario341
  • Manitoba210
  • New Brunswick174
  • Nova Scotia125
  • Prince Edward Island109
  • Alberta100
  • Saskatchewan89
  • Quebec88
  • Newfoundland and Labrador56
  • Yukon20
  • Northwest Territories3

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 367 of the 1,717 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  2. 1694Sulpician Towers / Fort de la Montagne National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec
  3. 1697Fort William National Historic Site of CanadaSt. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

The register gives no construction date for 239 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 1,018 of these 1,956 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)19 places
  2. Department of Public Works18 places
  3. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)17 places
  4. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)16 places
  5. George W. Grant (biography, opens in a new tab)15 places
  6. T.W. Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)15 places

All 1,956 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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