Missionaries

Missionaries, mission stations or religious orders working among Indigenous peoples or settlers.

Historic places
189Historic places
Built
1642–1940Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 47
  • Provincial 83
  • Territorial 3
  • Municipal 56
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Quebec41
  • Alberta29
  • Manitoba20
  • Ontario20
  • Saskatchewan19
  • British Columbia13
  • Newfoundland and Labrador13
  • Prince Edward Island10
  • Nova Scotia9
  • New Brunswick7
  • Northwest Territories6
  • Nunavut1
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 15 of the 140 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1642Fort Richelieu National Historic Site of CanadaSorel, Quebec
  2. 1649Fort Sainte Marie II National Historic Site of CanadaChristian Island, Ontario
  3. 1675Séminaire de QuébecQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 49 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 54 of these 189 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Edward Underwood (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  2. Reverend Robert Hunt2 places
  3. L'abbe Louis-Francois Richer Lafleche2 places
  4. Thomas Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  5. François Dollier de Casson2 places

All 189 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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