Roman Catholic

Roman Catholic parishes, missions or orders.

Historic places
592Historic places
Built
1647–2004Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 47
  • Provincial 230
  • Territorial 2
  • Municipal 313
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Quebec288
  • New Brunswick64
  • Saskatchewan47
  • Newfoundland and Labrador44
  • Prince Edward Island42
  • Nova Scotia28
  • Manitoba23
  • British Columbia18
  • Alberta17
  • Ontario17
  • Northwest Territories4

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 51 of the 450 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1647Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1671Hôpital-Général de Québec Monastery National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1675Séminaire de QuébecQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 142 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 279 of these 592 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)16 places
  2. Victor Bourgeau (biography, opens in a new tab)11 places
  3. Charles Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)9 places
  4. David Ouellet (biography, opens in a new tab)9 places
  5. François-Xavier Berlinguet (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  6. Pierre Lévesque (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places

All 592 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection