Riversides

A site on or overlooking a river.

Historic places
1,430Historic places
Built
1500–2002Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 403
  • Provincial 453
  • Territorial 6
  • Municipal 568
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Quebec467
  • Ontario241
  • New Brunswick203
  • British Columbia120
  • Manitoba98
  • Alberta88
  • Nova Scotia66
  • Prince Edward Island60
  • Saskatchewan49
  • Yukon17
  • Northwest Territories14
  • Newfoundland and Labrador6
  • Nunavut1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 113 of the 1,016 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1500Lawson SiteLondon, Ontario
  2. 1541Fort Charlesbourg Royal National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 414 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 392 of these 1,430 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Department of Public Works22 places
  2. Architectural Department15 places
  3. Thomas Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  4. Royal Engineers6 places
  5. Lorenzo Auger (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  6. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places

All 1,430 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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