New lives

Churches turned libraries, factories turned lofts, banks turned restaurants.

Historic places
1,863Historic places
Built
1669–1983Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 254
  • Provincial 358
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 1,250
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia369
  • Ontario306
  • Prince Edward Island269
  • New Brunswick181
  • Manitoba179
  • Nova Scotia172
  • Saskatchewan137
  • Quebec129
  • Alberta58
  • Newfoundland and Labrador50
  • Yukon11
  • Northwest Territories2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 305 of the 1,549 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1669LeBer-LeMoyne House National Historic Site of CanadaLachine, Quebec
  2. 1674Moulin à vent de GrondinesDeschambault-Grondines, Quebec
  3. 1685Tours du Fort-des-Messieurs-de-Saint-SulpiceMontréal, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 314 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 611 of these 1,863 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)12 places
  2. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)10 places
  3. Department of Public Works9 places
  4. Royal Engineers8 places
  5. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  6. Samuel Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places

All 1,863 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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