Open to visitors

Museums, interpretive centres and historic sites open to the public.

Historic places
494Historic places
Built
1665–2000Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 145
  • Provincial 150
  • Municipal 199
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Nova Scotia93
  • Ontario91
  • Manitoba60
  • British Columbia52
  • Quebec49
  • Saskatchewan35
  • New Brunswick33
  • Prince Edward Island30
  • Newfoundland and Labrador26
  • Alberta20
  • Yukon5

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 59 of the 425 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1665Fort Chambly National Historic Site of CanadaChambly, Quebec
  2. 1698Maison Saint-GabrielMontréal, Quebec
  3. 1705Moulin à vent de Pointe-du-MoulinNotre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 69 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 135 of these 494 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Royal Engineers5 places
  2. Department of Marine and Fisheries4 places
  3. John Cunningham (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  4. Charles H. Wheeler (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  5. David E. Dunham (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  6. Dunnington-Grubb2 places

All 494 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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