Telegraph, radio and newspapers

The telegraph, telephone, radio, newspapers and printing.

Historic places
187Historic places
Built
1697–1970Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 19
  • Provincial 42
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 125
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia35
  • Newfoundland and Labrador30
  • New Brunswick25
  • Manitoba21
  • Ontario19
  • Nova Scotia14
  • Prince Edward Island13
  • Alberta12
  • Saskatchewan9
  • Quebec6
  • Yukon3

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 35 of the 144 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1697Signal Hill National Historic Site of CanadaSt. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
  2. 1800Maison de La MinerveMontréal, Quebec
  3. 1806McGregor-Cowan HouseWindsor, Ontario

The register gives no construction date for 43 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 64 of these 187 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Storey and Van Egmond3 places
  2. Robert E. Davies (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  3. Samuel Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  4. W.T. Whiteway (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 187 places

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