Still in original use

Still serving the purpose they were built for.

Historic places
623Historic places
Built
1647–1987Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 126
  • Provincial 97
  • Municipal 400
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia157
  • Nova Scotia85
  • Ontario82
  • New Brunswick66
  • Saskatchewan60
  • Manitoba56
  • Quebec49
  • Prince Edward Island32
  • Newfoundland and Labrador21
  • Alberta13
  • Nunavut1
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 99 of the 540 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. 1754St. John's Anglican ChurchLunenburg, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 83 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 278 of these 623 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Department of Public Works5 places
  2. Department of Marine and Fisheries5 places
  3. William Critchlow Harris (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  4. Storey and Van Egmond3 places
  5. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  6. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places

All 623 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

Every collection