Notable interiors

Interior elements valued for heritage, such as original woodwork, staircases, plaster, pressed-metal ceilings, murals or pews.

Historic places
4,060Historic places
Built
1647–2004Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 976
  • Provincial 1,072
  • Territorial 2
  • Municipal 2,010
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia651
  • Manitoba623
  • Ontario622
  • Quebec559
  • New Brunswick426
  • Saskatchewan322
  • Nova Scotia310
  • Alberta288
  • Newfoundland and Labrador150
  • Prince Edward Island84
  • Yukon20
  • Northwest Territories4
  • Nunavut1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 742 of the 3,619 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1647Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1648Maison DelisleDeschambault-Grondines, Quebec
  3. 1668Maison Saint-Gabriel National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 441 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 1,762 of these 4,060 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 Works38 places
  2. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)20 places
  3. J.H.G. Russell (biography, opens in a new tab)18 places
  4. Samuel Maclure (biography, opens in a new tab)16 places
  5. Storey and Van Egmond16 places
  6. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)16 places

All 4,060 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection