Planned and company towns

A company town, garden suburb or other community laid out to a plan.

Historic places
149Historic places
Built
1753–1969Built
Provinces and territories
8Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 16
  • Provincial 15
  • Municipal 118
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia55
  • Ontario27
  • Quebec23
  • New Brunswick14
  • Newfoundland and Labrador12
  • Alberta8
  • Nova Scotia8
  • Yukon2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1920s: 44 of the 117 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1753Old Town Lunenburg Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaLunenburg, Nova Scotia
  2. 1835Old Port Credit Heritage Conservation DistrictCity of Mississauga, Ontario
  3. 1840Marysville Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaFredericton, New Brunswick

The register gives no construction date for 32 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 65 of these 149 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Blackadder and MacKay14 places
  2. Alfred Lamontagne (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  3. Mason and Rice3 places
  4. Benzie and Bow3 places

All 149 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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