Record holders

The tallest, largest or longest of their kind.

Historic places
217Historic places
Built
1713–1970Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 60
  • Provincial 65
  • Municipal 92
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia46
  • Ontario37
  • Quebec26
  • Alberta24
  • New Brunswick19
  • Saskatchewan19
  • Manitoba18
  • Newfoundland and Labrador13
  • Nova Scotia10
  • Prince Edward Island4
  • Northwest Territories1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 40 of the 185 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1713Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of CanadaLouisbourg, Nova Scotia
  2. 1719Moulin à vent de Pointe-aux-TremblesMontréal, Quebec
  3. 1754Église de Sainte-FamilleCap-Santé, Quebec

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

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 105 of these 217 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Storey and Van Egmond4 places
  2. Robert E. Davies (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  3. John Page2 places
  4. W.T. Whiteway (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  5. Edward Elliot (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  6. Ross and MacDonald2 places

All 217 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection