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Historic places
311Historic places
Built
1676–1986Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 88
  • Provincial 69
  • Municipal 154
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick88
  • Ontario54
  • Quebec43
  • British Columbia28
  • Nova Scotia25
  • Alberta21
  • Prince Edward Island21
  • Saskatchewan13
  • Manitoba9
  • Newfoundland and Labrador7
  • Yukon2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1870s: 32 of the 240 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1676Tonge's Island National Historic Site of CanadaSackville, New Brunswick
  2. 1705Château De Ramezay / India House National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec
  3. 1747Adams-Ritchie HouseAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 71 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 95 of these 311 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Isaac Smith (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  2. William Lyon Mackenzie King4 places
  3. Robert E. Davies (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  4. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  5. John Merrick (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  6. Edward Horsey (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 311 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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