People and the Environment

How people adapted to, used and changed the land.

Historic places
439Historic places
Built
1500–1984Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 100
  • Provincial 99
  • Territorial 6
  • Municipal 234
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia148
  • New Brunswick51
  • Alberta36
  • Newfoundland and Labrador36
  • Quebec34
  • Saskatchewan27
  • Nova Scotia25
  • Ontario24
  • Manitoba19
  • Nunavut15
  • Northwest Territories12
  • Prince Edward Island10
  • Yukon2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 42 of the 203 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1500Red Cedar StumpSurrey, British Columbia
  2. 1550Red Bay National Historic Site of CanadaRed Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
  3. 1629Fort Anne National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 236 of these places.

All 439 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection