Scenic views

A hilltop, lookout or prominent site with notable views.

Historic places
1,039Historic places
Built
1541–2004Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 314
  • Provincial 249
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 475
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia202
  • Quebec168
  • Nova Scotia153
  • Ontario132
  • Newfoundland and Labrador116
  • New Brunswick99
  • Prince Edward Island63
  • Alberta37
  • Saskatchewan37
  • Manitoba26
  • Northwest Territories3
  • Nunavut2
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 110 of the 778 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1541Fort Charlesbourg Royal National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1608Fortifications of Québec National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1620Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 261 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 372 of these 1,039 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 Marine and Fisheries11 places
  2. Samuel Maclure (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  3. Herbert Mayer Barker5 places
  4. British Royal Engineers5 places
  5. Thomas Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  6. François-Xavier Berlinguet (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 1,039 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection