Stained glass

Stained or leaded coloured glass windows.

Historic places
1,348Historic places
Built
1647–2004Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 108
  • Provincial 275
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 964
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia337
  • Ontario188
  • New Brunswick159
  • Manitoba150
  • Quebec113
  • Saskatchewan103
  • Newfoundland and Labrador100
  • Nova Scotia98
  • Alberta49
  • Prince Edward Island47
  • Yukon3
  • Northwest Territories1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 276 of the 1,214 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1647Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1750St. Paul's Anglican ChurchHalifax, Nova Scotia
  3. 1754Église de Sainte-FamilleCap-Santé, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 134 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 606 of these 1,348 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Samuel Maclure (biography, opens in a new tab)11 places
  2. J.H.G. Russell (biography, opens in a new tab)8 places
  3. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)8 places
  4. J.C.M. Keith (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  5. Matthew Stead (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  6. C.S. Bridgman (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 1,348 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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