Religious Institutions

Churches, congregations and religious orders.

Historic places
1,628Historic places
Built
1647–2004Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 100
  • Provincial 403
  • Territorial 3
  • Municipal 1,122
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick266
  • Saskatchewan239
  • Nova Scotia209
  • Quebec199
  • Manitoba152
  • British Columbia146
  • Ontario133
  • Newfoundland and Labrador121
  • Prince Edward Island93
  • Alberta62
  • Northwest Territories6
  • Yukon2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 191 of the 1,340 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1647Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1649Fort Sainte Marie II National Historic Site of CanadaChristian Island, Ontario
  3. 1664Petite-Ferme du cap Tourmente National Historic Site of CanadaSaint-Joachim, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 288 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 490 of these 1,628 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. David Ouellet (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  2. Thomas Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  3. J.H.G. Russell (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  4. Edward Underwood (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  5. François-Xavier Berlinguet (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  6. Alfred Lamontagne (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 1,628 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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