Medical history

Hospitals, doctors, nursing or public health.

Historic places
283Historic places
Built
1671–1961Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 48
  • Provincial 56
  • Municipal 179
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick60
  • Quebec44
  • Ontario40
  • British Columbia36
  • Prince Edward Island31
  • Alberta18
  • Newfoundland and Labrador15
  • Manitoba13
  • Nova Scotia13
  • Saskatchewan12
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 39 of the 212 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1671Hôpital-Général de Québec Monastery National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1692Grey Nuns' Hospital National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec
  3. 1695Aile du jardin du Monastère-des-Augustines-de-l'Hôtel-Dieu-de-QuébecQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 71 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 86 of these 283 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Department of Public Works13 places
  2. Architectural Department10 places
  3. John Teague (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  4. Pierre Lévesque (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  5. François de Lajoüe2 places

All 283 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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