Second Empire

A mansard roof with dormers, often with decorative brackets and a central tower.

Historic places
514Historic places
Built
1683–1969Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 52
  • Provincial 117
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 344
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick111
  • Quebec107
  • Newfoundland and Labrador77
  • Nova Scotia63
  • Ontario59
  • Prince Edward Island57
  • British Columbia16
  • Manitoba10
  • Saskatchewan10
  • Alberta2
  • Northwest Territories1
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1870s: 130 of the 388 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1683Maison Jean-Baptiste-ChevalierQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1729Maison Michel-CureuxQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1742Manoir des JésuitesTrois-Rivières, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 126 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 168 of these 514 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. McKean and Fairweather5 places
  2. John Teague (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  3. Thomas Seaton Scott (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  4. Henry Frederick Busch (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  5. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  6. David E. Dunham (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 514 places

Often found together

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