Railways

Railway construction, operation or railway towns.

Historic places
525Historic places
Built
1855–1969Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 197
  • Provincial 92
  • Municipal 236
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario98
  • British Columbia87
  • Quebec74
  • Manitoba53
  • Alberta52
  • Saskatchewan51
  • New Brunswick45
  • Nova Scotia29
  • Prince Edward Island20
  • Newfoundland and Labrador12
  • Yukon4

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 142 of the 462 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1855Canadian National Railway StationKingston, Ontario
  2. 1855Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) StationBelleville, Ontario
  3. 1855Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) StationPrescott, Ontario

The register gives no construction date for 63 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 171 of these 525 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. R.B. Pratt (biography, opens in a new tab)13 places
  2. Edward Maxwell (biography, opens in a new tab)11 places
  3. John Schofield (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  4. Francis Thompson (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  5. Joseph Hobson (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  6. C.B. Chappell (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 525 places

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