Shingle style

Continuous wood-shingle cladding over walls and roof with broad, low massing.

Historic places
36Historic places
Built
1790–1930Built
Provinces and territories
7Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 8
  • Provincial 5
  • Municipal 23
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick15
  • Nova Scotia6
  • Ontario5
  • Quebec5
  • British Columbia3
  • Alberta1
  • Prince Edward Island1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 9 of the 34 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1790Ministers IslandSt. Andrews (Parish), New Brunswick
  2. 1850First and Second Street Heritage Conservation DistrictTown of Oakville, Ontario
  3. 1864Sir Frederick Borden Residence National Historic Site of CanadaKings, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 2 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 17 of these 36 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. William and Edward Maxwell3 places
  2. Department of Public Works3 places
  3. Edmund Burke (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 36 places

Often found together

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