Mansard roofs

A four-sided roof with a steep lower slope, often with dormers.

Historic places
710Historic places
Built
1664–1969Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 95
  • Provincial 166
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 448
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Quebec169
  • New Brunswick136
  • Ontario105
  • Newfoundland and Labrador86
  • Prince Edward Island75
  • Nova Scotia74
  • British Columbia22
  • Saskatchewan20
  • Manitoba16
  • Alberta5
  • Northwest Territories1
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1870s: 136 of the 538 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1664Petite-Ferme du cap Tourmente National Historic Site of CanadaSaint-Joachim, Quebec
  2. 1683Maison Jean-Baptiste-ChevalierQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1729Maison Michel-CureuxQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 172 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 255 of these 710 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)11 places
  2. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)10 places
  3. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)10 places
  4. Henry Frederick Busch (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  5. Department of Public Works5 places
  6. McKean and Fairweather5 places

All 710 places

Often found together

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