Steeples and spires

A tall pointed steeple or spire, usually on a church.

Historic places
716Historic places
Built
1687–1969Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 54
  • Provincial 235
  • Territorial 2
  • Municipal 425
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Quebec248
  • Nova Scotia101
  • Saskatchewan86
  • New Brunswick58
  • Manitoba41
  • Newfoundland and Labrador41
  • British Columbia40
  • Ontario40
  • Prince Edward Island37
  • Alberta20
  • Northwest Territories4

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 75 of the 574 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1687Ursuline Monastery National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1688Église de Notre-Dame-des-VictoiresQuébec, Quebec
  3. 1716Caughnawaga Mission / Mission of St. Francis Xavier National Historic Site of CanadaKahnawake, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 142 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 311 of these 716 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)13 places
  2. David Ouellet (biography, opens in a new tab)9 places
  3. Victor Bourgeau (biography, opens in a new tab)8 places
  4. François-Xavier Berlinguet (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  5. Louis-Napoléon Audet (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  6. Charles Baillairgé (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places

All 716 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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