Waterfronts and harbours

A seacoast, harbour, lakeshore or wharf setting.

Historic places
1,736Historic places
Built
1541–2000Built
Provinces and territories
13Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 765
  • Provincial 430
  • Territorial 11
  • Municipal 530
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • British Columbia296
  • Quebec292
  • Newfoundland and Labrador288
  • Nova Scotia239
  • Ontario237
  • New Brunswick138
  • Prince Edward Island126
  • Manitoba29
  • Alberta27
  • Northwest Territories19
  • Saskatchewan18
  • Nunavut16
  • Yukon11

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1900s: 163 of the 1,246 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1541Fort Charlesbourg Royal National Historic Site of CanadaQuébec, Quebec
  2. 1550Red Bay National Historic Site of CanadaRed Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
  3. 1576Kodlunarn Island National Historic Site of CanadaKodlunarn Island, Nunavut

The register gives no construction date for 490 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 513 of these 1,736 places. These names come up most often.

  1. Department of Marine and Fisheries56 places
  2. Shreve, Lamb and Harmon25 places
  3. Department of Public Works12 places
  4. British Royal Engineers11 places
  5. Department of Marine8 places
  6. Architectural Department8 places

All 1,736 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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