Tourism and resorts

Resorts, grand hotels, cottage country and early tourism.

Historic places
174Historic places
Built
1800–1968Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 80
  • Provincial 29
  • Territorial 1
  • Municipal 64
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Alberta34
  • British Columbia31
  • Quebec27
  • Ontario24
  • New Brunswick20
  • Manitoba13
  • Prince Edward Island10
  • Nova Scotia7
  • Saskatchewan4
  • Newfoundland and Labrador3
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1930s: 34 of the 143 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1800Site historique de la Chute-MontmorencyBoischatel, Quebec
  2. 1810Mallory House and StableSt Andrews, New Brunswick
  3. 1816Whale Cove CottagesGrand Manan, New Brunswick

The register gives no construction date for 31 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 68 of these 174 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Architectural Division7 places
  2. Harold C. Beckett5 places
  3. National Parks Branch5 places
  4. John D. Warwick3 places
  5. Ernest T. Brown (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  6. Edward Maxwell (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places

All 174 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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