Settlement

The founding and growth of communities, homesteads and towns.

Historic places
2,593Historic places
Built
1541–2002Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 144
  • Provincial 397
  • Territorial 5
  • Municipal 2,047
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia961
  • Nova Scotia486
  • Ontario257
  • New Brunswick240
  • Saskatchewan160
  • Quebec112
  • Alberta111
  • Manitoba108
  • Prince Edward Island75
  • Newfoundland and Labrador60
  • Northwest Territories10
  • Yukon10
  • Nunavut3

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 408 of the 1,818 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1541Fort Charlesbourg Royal National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1550Southwold Earthworks National Historic Site of CanadaSouthwold, Ontario
  3. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 775 of these places.

All 2,593 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection