Public clocks

A clock built into a tower or facade for public view.

Historic places
141Historic places
Built
1684–1969Built
Provinces and territories
10Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 49
  • Provincial 29
  • Municipal 63
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario41
  • Quebec21
  • Manitoba13
  • Saskatchewan13
  • New Brunswick12
  • British Columbia11
  • Nova Scotia11
  • Newfoundland and Labrador9
  • Alberta5
  • Prince Edward Island5

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 31 of the 133 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1684Saint-Sulpice Seminary and its Garden National Historic Site of CanadaMontréal, Quebec
  2. 1684Site historique du Vieux-Séminaire-de-Saint-SulpiceMontréal, Quebec
  3. 1684Vieux Séminaire de Saint-SulpiceMontréal, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 8 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 110 of these 141 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)15 places
  2. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)12 places
  3. François Dollier de Casson3 places
  4. John Teague (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  5. Victor Horwood (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  6. William Dodd (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 141 places

Often found together

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