Trade and Commerce

Trade, business, stores, banks and markets.

Historic places
2,445Historic places
Built
1605–1996Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 168
  • Provincial 345
  • Territorial 9
  • Municipal 1,923
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia670
  • New Brunswick643
  • Ontario199
  • Nova Scotia192
  • Manitoba188
  • Prince Edward Island120
  • Alberta114
  • Newfoundland and Labrador104
  • Saskatchewan104
  • Quebec77
  • Yukon16
  • Northwest Territories13
  • Nunavut5

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 353 of the 1,886 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1605Annapolis Royal Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  2. 1631Fort La Tour National Historic Site of CanadaSaint John, New Brunswick
  3. 1645Fort Charnisay National Historic Site of CanadaSaint John, New Brunswick

The register gives no construction date for 559 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 723 of these 2,445 places. These names come up most often.

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

  1. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)19 places
  2. Parr and Fee15 places
  3. Darling and Pearson14 places
  4. John D. Atchison (biography, opens in a new tab)12 places
  5. George W. Grant (biography, opens in a new tab)11 places
  6. W.T. Whiteway (biography, opens in a new tab)10 places

All 2,445 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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