List of national historic sites of Canada

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This is a list of the federal National Historic Sites of Canada. All such designations are made by the Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. As of 2006, there are 863 sites, 155 of which are administered by Parks Canada.

See also: Canadian Register of Historic Places for information on provincial and other Canadian historic sites.

Contents 1 Alberta — 59 2 British Columbia — 87 3 Manitoba — 52 4 New Brunswick — 61 5 Newfoundland and Labrador — 42 6 Northwest Territories — 12 7 Nova Scotia — 85 8 Nunavut — 11 9 Ontario — 246 10 Prince Edward Island — 22 11 Quebec — 165 12 Saskatchewan — 41 13 Yukon Territory — 12 14 France — 2 15 External links

[edit] Alberta — 59

• Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin — Early stone alpine cabin used by climbers, 1922
• Áísínai'pi — Contains the largest concentration of rock art images on the Great Plains
• Athabasca Pass — Major fur trade transportation route
• Atlas No. 3 Coal Mine — Exceptionally well-preserved coal mine plant
• Banff Park Museum — Early natural history museum in Rustic style, 1902-03
• Banff Springs Hotel — Famous railway resort hotel in Château style, 1912
• Bar U Ranch — Historic ranch in Alberta foothills, 1883
• Beaulieu — Sandstone mansion of Sir James A. Lougheed, 1891
• Blackfoot Crossing — Traditional meeting place on Blackfoot reserve
• British Block Cairn — One of the best examples of a large boulder cairn
• Brooks Aqueduct — Landmark irrigation project built by Canadian Pacific Railway in 1912-14
• Calgary City Hall — Imposing civic building in Romanesque Revival style, 1907-1911
• Cave and Basin — Hot springs, birthplace of national parks
• Coleman — Coal mining landscape illustrating important aspects of mining culture
• Earthlodge Village — Remains of aboriginal village
• First Oil Well in Western Canada — First commercially productive oil well in Western Canada
• Fort Assiniboine — Site of 1823 Hudson's Bay Company post
• Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton — Site of rival trading posts, 1795-1801; Hudson's Bay Company
• Fort Calgary — Site of 1875 North West Mounted Police post
• Fort Chipewyan — Site of major trading posts, 1800-present; Hudson's Bay Company
• Fort Dunvegan — Site of 1805 North West Company post
• Fort Edmonton III — Site of 1831 Hudson's Bay Company post
• Fort Fork — Starting point of Alexander MacKenzie's route to Pacific, 1793
• Fort Macleod — Site of North West Mounted Police headquarters, 1876-78
• Fort Vermilion — Site of North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company posts
• Fort Whoop-Up — Whiskey post, led to formation of North West Mounted Police
• Frog Lake — Site of Cree uprising, 1885
• Galt Irrigation Canal — First major irrigation project in Canada, 1898-00
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump — World Heritage Site - Aboriginal bison drive
• Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of Technology — Early technical college in Collegiate Gothic Revival, 1921-1922
• Howse Pass — First crossed by David Thompson in 1807
• Jasper House — Archaeological remains of 1829 fur trade post
• Jasper Park Information Centre — Picturesque fieldstone park building of Rustic design, 1913-14
• Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage — First Roman Catholic mission to be established by the renowned priest, Albert Lacombe
• Leduc-Woodbend Oilfield — Most important oil field in history of Alberta
• Medalta Potteries — Early 20th-century beehive kilns and manufacturing buildings
• Medicine Hat Clay Industries — Cultural landscape associated with the growth and diversification of the pottery industry
• Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall — Outstanding, large-scale, World War I urban armoury, 1917-18
• Nordegg — Coal mining landscape including numerous extant mining resources
• Notre Dame des Victoires / Lac La Biche Mission — Important Roman Catholic mission, established in 1853 by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate
• Old Women's Buffalo Jump — Aboriginal bison drive in use for 1500 years
• Palace Theatre — Designed by internationally renowned theatre architect C. Howard Crane
• Prince of Wales Hotel — Symbol of mountain tourism, chalet style hotel, 1926-27
• Rocky Mountain House — Rival Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company posts
• Rundle's Mission — Site of Methodist mission, agriculture and education
• Skoki Ski Lodge — Ski lodge in rustic vernacular, 1930-31
• St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — Fine example of Gothic Revival design, 1912-14
• Stephen Avenue — Buildings along section of street illustrating prairie urban development
• Stirling Agricultural Village — Distinctive Mormon pioneer dryland irrigation farming settlement pattern
• Suffield Tipi Rings — Important example of Niitsitapi cultural heritage on the western Canadian plains
• Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station — Remains of high altitude geophysical laboratory
• Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — Monumental modern temple in historic Mormon centre, 1913-1923
• Territorial Court House — Oldest court house in Alberta, completed in 1904
• Treaty Nº 7 Signing Site — Treaty signed in 1877 with Blackfoot nation
• Turner Valley Gas Plant — Early gas plant, central to the history of petroleum extraction technology
• Turner Valley Oilfield — First major oil field in Alberta, 1914-47
• Victoria Settlement — Cultural landscape illustrating major themes in Prairie settlement
• Wetaskiwin Court House — Classic symbol of justice in the developing West, 1907-1909
• Yellowhead Pass — Transportation route through Rocky Mountains

[edit] British Columbia — 87

• 223 Robert Street — Queen Anne Revival style residence, 1905
• Abbotsford Sikh Temple — Oldest surviving Sikh temple in Canada
• Bay Street Drill Hall — Fortress-like World War I drill hall, 1914-15
• Begbie Hall — Nurses' residences were central to the nursing culture
• Binning Residence — Early and remarkable illustration of architecture in the modern era; 1941
• Boat Encampment — Key trans-shipment point on Columbia River
• Brilliant Suspension Bridge — Doukhobor-built bridge; symbol of Doukhobor culture
• Britannia Mines Concentrator — Important 1920s-30s copper mine concentrator
• Britannia Shipyard — Historic ship repair and building facility
• Butchart Gardens — World renowned floral garden started in 1904.
• Chilkoot Trail — Transportation route to Klondike gold fields
• Chilliwack City Hall — Attractive concrete civic building, 1912
• Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point — Chinese-Canadian cemetery with significant pre-1950 mortuary features, distinctive plan and application of Feng Shui
• Christ Church — Fine, early ecclesiological Gothic Revival church, 1861
• Church of Our Lord — Fine example of Carpenter's Gothic Revival on the West Coast
• Church of the Holy Cross — Fine Carpenter's Gothic Revival mission church in Skookumchuck, by Salish craftsmen, 1905-08
• Congregation Emanu-el Temple — Oldest surviving synagogue in Canada, built in 1863
• Craigdarroch — Baronial sandstone mansion of Robert Dunsmuir, 1887-90
• Craigflower Manor House — Fine example of an agricultural settlement company residence, 1853-56
• Craigflower Schoolhouse — Oldest surviving school building in western Canada, built 1854-55
• Emily Carr House — Birthplace of Emily Carr, early West Coast Italianate, 1863-64
• Empress Hotel — Landmark Château style railway hotel, 1904-08
• Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Roundhouse — Early West Coast railway facility, 1913
• Esquimalt Naval Sites — Historic naval district with significant built resources
• Estate of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia — Cultural landscape; served as the residence of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the province
• Fisgard Lighthouse — First permanent lighthouse on Canada's West Coast, 1859-60
• Former Vancouver Law Courts — Imposing urban court house in Beaux-Arts style, 1907-11
• Former Victoria Law Courts — Earliest British Columbia court house, distinctive eclectic design, 1887-88
• Fort Alexandria — Site of North West Company post, 1821-60s
• Fort Hope — Site of Hudson's Bay Company post, 1848-60
• Fort Kamloops — Site of North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company posts
• Fort Langley — Early 19th-century Hudson's Bay Company post
• Fort McLeod — Site of North West Company post built in 1805
• Fort Rodd Hill — Late 19th-century fort to defend Victoria-Esquimalt fortifications
• Fort St. James — Fur trade post founded by Simon Fraser, 1806
• Fort St. John — Site of North West Company posts, 1806-23
• Fort Steele — Site of 1887 North West Mounted Police barracks
• Fort Victoria — Site of 1843 Hudson's Bay Company post
• Gitwangak Battle Hill — 18th-century Gitwangak hilltop fortification surrounding five longhouses, Tawdzep
• Gulf of Georgia Cannery — Outstanding West Coast fish processing complex, 1894
• Hatley Park — Estate of Hatley Castle, built by James Dunsmuir, 1908
• Kaslo Municipal Hall — Oldest municipal hall on British Columbia mainland, 1898
• Kicking Horse Pass — Traversed by Palliser expedition, 1857-60
• Kiix?in Village and Fortress — Archaeological sites of First Nations village and fortress with significant architectural remains
• Kitselas Canyon — Remains of 2 aboriginal villages and petroglyphs
• Kitwanga Totem Poles — Totem poles record families of Kitwanga Fort
• Kitwankul — Gitksan village
• Kiusta Village — Former Haïda village
• Kootenae House — Site of North West Company post, 1807-12
• Lions Gate Bridge — Outstanding engineering achievement; an undeniable and significant influence on the development of Vancouver
• Malahat Building — First Victoria custom house; 1873-76; ; Second Empire style
• Marpole Midden — Site of midden, excavated in 1892
• McLean Mill — Lumber mill complex, buildings and equipment, 1926-27
• Metlakatla Pass — Site of winter villages of Tsimshian peoples
• Motor Vessel BCP 45 — Example of a wooden seiner, a class of vessel intimately associated with the commercial West Coast fishery
• Myra Canyon Section of the Kettle Valley Railway — Outstanding engineering achievement in routing and constructing a railway in mountainous terrain
• Nan Sdins — Remains of Haïda longhouses and totem poles
• New Gold Harbour Area — Site of Haïda village
• North Pacific Cannery — Oldest extant West Coast salmon cannery, 1889
• Orpheum Theatre — Ornate 1920s movie palace
• Pemberton Memorial Operating Room — Rare surviving example of a surgical facility from the period of transition of hospitals from primarily charitable to scientific institutions
• Point Atkinson Lighthouse — Strategic light integral to growth of Vancouver harbour, 1912
• Point Ellice House / O'Reilly House — Picturesque early house and gardens, 1861
• Powell River Townsite Historic District — Largely intact early 20th-century planned single-industry town
• Rogers Building — Intact retail building in Queen Anne Revival style; home of Rogers' Chocolates, 1903
• Rogers Pass — Canadian Pacific Railway route through Selkirk Mountains
• Rossland Court House — Early regional expression of a Canadian court house, 1898-1901
• Royal Theatre — Classically inspired vaudeville theatre, 1913
• S.S. Moyie — Restored riverboat launched in 1898
• Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church — Impressive 1884 Gothic Revival mission church
• Skedans — Former Haïda village
• St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral — Excellent example of High Victorian Gothic, 1892
• St. Ann's Academy — 19th-century private girls' school
• St. Roch — First vessel to navigate Northwest passage west to east, 1928
• Stanley Park — Outstanding large urban park, 1890s
• Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation — Excellent representation of the core period of hydro-electric technological development among the approximately 160 extant stations built between 1900-1920 across Canada
• Tanu — Former Haïda village
• Triple Island Lighthouse — Striking concrete station in isolated setting, 1920
• Twin Falls Tea House — Early rustic tea house in Yoho National Park, 1923-24
• Victoria City Hall — Earliest extant western town hall; Second Empire style, 1878-1890
• Victoria's Chinatown — Oldest surviving Chinatown in Canada with cohesive groupings of historic buildings
• Vogue Theatre — Moderne style theatre, 1941
• Weir's (Taylor's) Beach Earthworks Site — Pre-contact site on Vancouver Island
• Whaler's Shrine Site — Aboriginal ritual site, shrine removed
• Xa:ytem / Hatzic Rock — Habitation site of Stó:lo peoples
• Yan Village Indian Site — Former Haïda village
• Yuquot — Centre of the social, political and economic world of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht

[edit] Manitoba — 52

• Battle of Seven Oaks — Conflict between Métis and Red River settlers, 1816
• BCATP Hangar No. 1 — Excellent, well-preserved example of a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan hangar built during World War II
• Brockinton Indian Site — Late prehistoric site, Blackduck phase
• Canadian Pacific Railway Station (Winnipeg) — Classically inspired railway station, gateway to the West, 1904-05
• Churchill Rocket Research Range — Upper atmosphere research centre
• Confederation Building — Landmark Winnipeg steel-framed skyscraper, 1912
• Dalnavert — Queen Anne Revival home of Hugh John Macdonald, 1895
• Dominion Exhibition Display Building II — Sole survivor of buildings constructed for Dominion Exhibition, held annually from 1879-1912
• Early Skyscrapers in Winnipeg — Significant grouping of early high-rise buildings
• Exchange District — Centre of the grain and wholesale trade, finance and manufacturing between 1880-1900 and also 1900-13
• First Homestead in Western Canada — Site of 1872 homestead, first under new survey system
• Former Union Bank Building / Annex — First skyscraper in western Canada; speaks to key note of finance in expansion of the West, 1903-04
• Fort Churchill — Built by Samuel Hearne 1783, reached by rail in 1929; Hudson's Bay Company
• Fort Dauphin — One of La Vérendrye's posts, built 1741; North West Company
• Fort Douglas — Site of 1812 headquarters of Red River settlement; North West Company
• Fort Dufferin — Newly-formed North West Mounted Police set out for Alberta in 1874
• Fort Garry Hotel — Château style railway hotel built 1911-13
• Fort La Reine — Most important of La Vérendrye's western posts; North West Company
• Grey Nuns' Convent — Early Red River frame mission house, erected in 1845-51
• Holy Trinity Anglican Church — Fine example of High Victorian Gothic style, 1883-84
• Inglis Grain Elevators — Rare row of standard plan country grain elevators typical of "Golden Age" from 1920s to 1940s
• Linear Mounds — Aboriginal burial mounds from 1000-1200 AD
• Lower Fort Garry — Major centre in 19th-century fur trade
• Metropolitan Theatre — First movie "palace" in Canada, 1919
• Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern) — Early Prairie branch line railway station, 1905
• Miss Davis' School Residence / Twin Oaks — Girls' school, mid 1850s Red River architecture
• Neepawa Court House / Beautiful Plains County Court Building — Court house, town hall, jail and theatre, 1884
• Neubergthal Street Village — Distinctive Mennonite Prairie settlement pattern and house-barn architecture
• Norway House — Major 19th-century Hudson's Bay Company post
• Pantages Playhouse Theatre — Lavish vaudeville theatre, 1913-14
• Portage La Prairie Public Building — Limestone building designed under Thomas Fuller, 1895-98
• Prince of Wales Fort — 18th-century stone fur trade fort on Hudson Bay
• Red River Floodway — Outstanding engineering achievement in flood control
• Riding Mountain National Park East Gate Registration Complex — Three rustic buildings built under depression relief programs
• Riel House — Family home of Métis leader Louis Riel
• Roslyn Court Apartments — Fine Queen Anne Revival apartment building, 1909
• Sea Horse Gully Remains — Large Dorset and pre-Dorset site
• Souris-Assiniboine Posts — Important fur trade centre, Yellow Quill Trail; North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company
• St. Andrew's Anglican Church — Oldest stone church in western Canada, 1845-49
• St. Andrew's Rectory — Example of mid 19th-century Red River architecture, 1852-1854
• St. Andrews Caméré Curtain Bridge Dam — Largest of its type in world, 1907-10
• St. Boniface City Hall — Imposing building by Victor Horwood, built in 1905
• St. Boniface Hospital Nurses' Residence — Nurses' residences were central to the nursing culture
• St. Michael's Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church — Typical and oldest Ukrainian church, 1899
• The Forks — Historic meeting place, junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers
• Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — One of the most ambitious and accomplished buildings by Reverend Philip Ruh, 1930-52
• Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Resurrection — Mature and culminating expression of Ukrainian identity of the Dauphin Block Settlement, 1936-39
• Union Station / Winnipeg Railway Station (Canadian National) — Beaux-Arts railway station, important in western settlement, 1908-11
• Walker Theatre — Playhouse, 1906; site of labour and Women's Movement meetings, 1914
• Wasyl Negrych Pioneer Homestead — Believed to be earliest and best preserved example of Ukrainian pioneer farm
• Winnipeg Law Courts — Monumental symbol of law and order, 1912-16
• York Factory — Hudson's Bay Company's principal fur trade depot from 1684-1870s

[edit] New Brunswick — 61

• 1 Chipman Hill — Fine residence with interior mural painting
• Arts Building — Oldest extant university building in Canada, 1826-27
• Augustine Mound — Pre-contact burial mound
• Beaubears Island Shipbuilding — Archaeological site associated with nineteenth-century shipbuilding
• Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home — Home of politician and Father of Confederation, Robert Duncan Wilmot, circa 1820
• Boishébert — Acadian refugee settlement, 1756-59
• Carleton Martello Tower — Fortification built to defend Saint John during War of 1812
• Chandler House / Rocklyn — Fine Neoclassical residence of politician and Father of Confederation, Edward Barron Chandler
• Charlotte County Court House — Fine early example of Maritime court house
• Christ Church Anglican — Archetypal Gothic Revival parish church, 1856
• Christ Church Cathedral — Exceptional example of Gothic Revival style, built in 1845
• Connell House — Greek Revival style residence of Charles Connell, lumber merchant and politician; circa 1840
• Denys Fort / Habitation — 17th-century French trading post
• Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland — Remnants of 1750-51 French fort; captured by British and New England troops in 1755
• Fort Charnisay — Site of French fort, 1645
• Fort Gaspareaux — Military ruins and cemetery of 1751 French fort
• Fort Howe — Built 1777 to defend Saint John River from Americans
• Fort Jemseg — Site of 1659 English post, captured by Dutch in 1674
• Fort La Tour — Site of French fort, 1631
• Fort Nashwaak (Naxoat) — Site of French fort, 1692-98
• Fort Nerepis — Site of 1749 French fort on aboriginal site, Fort Boishebert
• Fredericton City Hall — Multi-functional municipal hall, 1875-76
• Fredericton Military Compound — Important grouping of British Colonial military buildings
• Free Meeting House — Meeting house, symbol of ecumenical spirit, built in 1821
• Greenock Church — Fine Palladian style meeting house, 1821-24
• Hammond House — Fine example of Queen Anne Revival style, 1899
• Hartland Covered Bridge — Longest extant covered bridge in the world
• Imperial / Bi-Capitol Theatre — Grand playhouse / vaudeville theatre, 1912-23
• La Coupe Dry Dock — Site may represent 18th-century Acadian construction
• Landing of United Empire Loyalists in New Brunswick — Three separate fleets of ships carrying Loyalists from New England, 1783
• Loyalist House — New England-influenced architecture; residence built circa 1820
• Marine Hospital — Oldest surviving marine hospital in Canada, 1830-31
• Marysville Cotton Mill — Typical late 19th-century textile mill
• Marysville Historic District — Important intact 19th-century company town
• McAdam Railway Station (Canadian Pacific) — Large Château style railway station, 1900
• Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic — Principal Maliseet settlement
• Minister's Island — Cultural landscape; seasonal estate begun in the late 19th-century by Sir William Van Horne
• Minister's Island Pre-contact Sites — Pre-contact shell midden, 500 BC - 1500 AD
• Miscou Island Lighthouse — Strategic Chaleur Bay octagonal colonial lighthouse
• Monument Lefebvre — Multi-function building, symbol of Acadian cultural revival
• Number 2 Mechanics' Volunteer Company Engine House — 19th-century Neoclassical style fire hall for hand-operated pumper fire engines, 1840s
• Old Government House — Georgian-era vice-regal residence, 1826-28
• Oxbow — Well-preserved, 3000-year archaeological record
• Partridge Island Quarantine Station — Established 1830 to prevent spread of smallpox
• Prince William Streetscape — Important late 19th-century architecture, commercial streetscape
• Rothesay Railway Station (European and North American) — Example of standard design station, 1858-60
• Saint John City Market — Rare example of 19th-century market building still in use; Second Empire style
• Saint John County Court House — Early symbol of British colonial justice
• Seal Cove Smoked Herring Stands — Herring stands and related structures in environment evocative of late 19th-century Atlantic herring fishery
• St. Andrews Blockhouse — Restored wooden blockhouse from War of 1812
• St. Andrews Historic District — Distinctive town with surviving 18th-century British colonial plan and classically-inspired architecture
• St. Anne's Chapel of Ease — Early and excellent example of Gothic Revival chapel, 1846-47
• St. John's Anglican Church / Stone Church — One of earliest Gothic Revival churches in Canada, 1824-25
• St. Luke's Anglican Church — Fine Vernacular Wren-Gibbsian church, 1831-33
• St. Paul's United Church — Fine High Victorian Gothic church, 1886
• St. Stephen Post Office — Early symbol of federal government presence
• Tilley House — Boyhood home of Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, Father of Confederation, built 1790s
• Tonge's Island — Capital of Acadia, 1678-84
• Trinity Church and Rectory — Oldest Anglican church and rectory in New Brunswick, 1787-89
• William Brydone Jack Observatory — First astronomical observatory in Canada, 1851
• York County Court House — Early brick court house

[edit] Newfoundland and Labrador — 42

• Basilica of St. John the Baptist — Romanesque Revival basilica, symbol of Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland, 1839-55
• Battle Harbour Historic District — District evocative of the 19th- and early 20th-century fishing outports of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Boyd's Cove Beothuk — Major archaeological site for Beothuk history
• Cape Pine Lighthouse — Early circular cast-iron tower, 1851
• Cape Race Lighthouse — Strategic landfall light on major shipping lane
• Cape Spear — Oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland, 1836
• Castle Hill — 17th- and 18th-century French and British fortifications
• Christ Church / Quidi Vidi Church — Early 19th-century outport village church, 1842
• Colony of Avalon — Site of first English settlement in Canada, 1621
• Fleur de Lys Soapstone Quarries — Resource extraction by dorset culture
• Former Bank of British North America — Fine example of Italianate style, 1848-50
• Former Carbonear Railway Station (Newfoundland Railway) — Representative station of Newfoundland railway system, 1917
• Former Newfoundland Railway Headquarters — Headquarters and terminus of Newfoundland railway system, 1903
• Fort Amherst — Site of 1777 fortifications, St. John's harbour
• Fort Townshend — Headquarters of Newfoundland garrison, 1779-1871
• Fort William — Headquarters of Newfoundland garrison, 1618-1779
• Government House — Vice-regal residence, 1827-31
• Harbour Grace Court House — Oldest court house in Newfoundland, 1830
• Hawthorne Cottage — Picturesque cottage, home of Captain Robert Bartlett from 1875-1946
• Hebron Mission — Complex of linked Moravian mission buildings, 1837
• Hopedale Mission — Symbol of interaction between Labrador Inuit and Moravian Missionaires; representative of Moravian Mission architecture in Labrador
• Indian Point — Well documented Beothuk site
• L'Anse Amour — One of the largest and longest used Aboriginal habitation sites in Labrador; earliest known funeral monument in the New World
• L'Anse aux Meadows — Only authenticated Viking settlement in North America; UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Mallard Cottage — Vernacular building by Irish immigrants, circa 1820-40
• Murray Premises — Mid 19th-century commercial waterfront structures
• Okak — Archæological site, several cultures occupied
• Port au Choix — Pre-contact burial and habitation sites
• Port Union Historic District — Town constructed and run by a union
• Red Bay — 16th-century Basque whaling industry complex
• Rennie's Mill Road Historic District — Fine example of 19th-century residential streetscape
• Ryan Premises — East Coast fishing industry complex
• Signal Hill — Commemorates defence of St. John's; includes the Cabot Tower
• St. John the Baptist Anglican Cathedral — Outstanding Gothic Revival by G.G. Scott, 1847
• St. John's Court House — Sandstone Romanesque Revival urban court house, 1900-04
• St. John's WWII Coastal Defences — Safe port for World War II convoy assembly; Atlantic Bulwark
• St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — Major Gothic Revival church, 1864-81
• St. Thomas Rectory / Commissariat House and Garden — Military stores and residence, 1818
• Tilting — Possesses a landscape illustrating adaptations of Irish settlement patterns; cultural landscape
• Walled Landscape of Grates Cove — Pasturage and gardens defined by stone walls reflecting communal system of land use typical of Newfoundland
• Water Street Historic District — Mid 19th-century mercantile centre of St. John's
• Winterholme — Queen Anne Revival style mansion, 1905

[edit] Northwest Territories — 12

• Church of Our Lady of Good Hope — Early northern Oblate mission church, outstanding interior decoration, 1865-85
• Déline Fishery / Franklin's Fort — Wintering quarters of Sir John Franklin and his second expedition
• Ehdaa — Traditional gathering site for the Dene
• Fort McPherson — Hudson's Bay Company post, 1840
• Fort Reliance — Oldest continuously operating Hudson's Bay Company post, 1833
• Fort Resolution — Main post on Great Slave Lake, 1821; North West Company
• Fort Simpson — North West Company (1804) and Hudson's Bay Company (1822) posts
• Hay River Mission Sites — Mission buildings, significant to Dene community
• Kittigazuit Archaeological Sites — Beluga hunting, Kittegaryumiut and Mackenzie Delta
• Nagwichoonjik (Mackenzie River) — Flows through Gwichya Gwich'in traditional homeland and continues to be culturally, socially and spiritually significant
• Parry's Rock Wintering Site — Wintering site of William Parry's expedition of the Northwest Passage, 1819
• Sahoyúé-§ehdacho — Expression of cultural values through the interrelationship between landscape, oral histories, graves and cultural resources

[edit] Nova Scotia — 85

• Acacia Grove / Prescott House — Palladian home of horticulturalist C. R. Prescott
• Admiralty House — Exceptional 1819 Palladian style naval residence
• Africville — Community representative of Black settlement in Nova Scotia; an enduring symbol to Black Canadians
• Akins House — Early vernacular building, circa 1815
• Alexander Graham Bell Museum — Commemorates famous inventor
• Annapolis County Court House — Archetypical 1837 Palladian style colonial court house
• Annapolis Royal Historic District — Strategic colonial capital with evolved townsite plan
• Antigonish County Court House — Typical mid 19th-century Maritime court house, 1855
• Argyle Township Court House and Jail — Oldest known surviving combined court house and jail
• Beaubassin — Major Acadian settlement; pivotal place in the 17th- and 18th-century North American geopolitical struggle between the British and French empires
• Bedford Petroglyphs — Spiritually significant petroglyph site
• Black-Binney House — Palladian urban residence, 1819
• Bloody Creek — Site of two French-English combats, 1711 and 1757
• Canso Islands — Site of fishing centre, 16th- to 19th-century
• Cast Iron Façade / Coomb's Old English Shoe Store — Rare and early example of full cast iron façade, 1860
• Chapel Island — Important gathering place, a location for government and a site of spiritual significance to the Mi'kmaq
• Chapman House — Prosperous late 18th-century farmhouse, 1770s
• Covenanters' Church — Historic Presbyterian meeting house, circa 1804-11
• D'Anville's Encampment — French expedition to retake Louisbourg, 1746
• Debert Palaeo-Indian Site — Archaeological remains of Aboriginal caribou hunting
• Fernwood — Gothic Revival villa, circa 1860
• Fort Anne — 1695-1708 fortifications
• Fort Edward — Played a role in the struggle for predominance in North America, 1750-1812; oldest blockhouse in Canada, 1750
• Fort LaHave — First permanent French settlement in Acadia, 1632
• Fort Lawrence — English fort, 1750-55
• Fort McNab — Fort built in 1889 to defend Halifax Harbour
• Fort St. Louis — Site of French fort, 1630
• Fortress of Louisbourg — Reconstruction of 18th-century French fortress
• Georges Island — Harbour fortification; contains Fort Charlotte
• Government House — Excellent, early, Palladian style vice-regal residence
• Grand-Pré — Commemorates Acadian settlement and expulsion
• Grand-Pré Rural Historic District — Acadian / English planter settlement area with surviving land-use patterns
• Grassy Island Fort — Centre of English fishery in 18th-century
• Halifax Armoury — Large, urban, Romanesque Revival drill hall for the active militia, 1895-99
• Halifax Citadel — Restored British masonry fort, 1828-56
• Halifax City Hall — Civic symbol on Grand Parade, 1887; Second Empire style
• Halifax Court House — Italianate court house, 1858
• Halifax Dockyard — Oldest dockyard in North America still in use, 1758
• Halifax Public Gardens — One of rare surviving Victorian gardens in Canada
• Halifax Waterfront Buildings — Commercial grouping reflecting Halifax's 19th-century development
• Halifax WWII Coastal Defences — Safe port for World War II convoy assembly; Atlantic Bulwark
• Henry House — Common 19th-century urban type in local ironstone, 1834; residence of Father of Confederation, William A. Henry
• HMCS Sackville — Only surviving Flower-class corvette; Battle of Atlantic, World War II
• Hydrostone District — Public housing in Garden Suburb style, 1920s
• Jonathan McCully House — Italianate urban residence of politician and Father of Confederation, Jonathan McCully
• Kejimkujik — Important Mi'kmaq cultural landscape
• King's College — Site of Anglican college, 1789-1923
• Knaut-Rhuland House — Example of British classicism applied to a residence by virtue of its precise, harmonious design and rich detail
• Ladies' Seminary — Represents the earliest phase of Women's higher education; 1878
• Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church — Oldest known surviving church in Canada associated with the German-Canadian community, 1756-60
• Liverpool Town Hall — Dignified regional reflection of a national building type
• Lunenburg Academy — Rare survivor from Nova Scotia's 19th-century academy system; Second Empire style
• Marconi — Site of first wireless station in Canada
• Marconi Wireless Station — First regular public transatlantic wireless service
• Melanson Settlement — Pre-expulsion Acadian farm community, 1664-1755
• Nova Scotia Coal Fields (Sydney) — Surviving clusters of in situ resources associated with the fields and the coal industry
• Nova Scotia Coal Fields (Stellarton) — Surviving clusters of in situ resources associated with the fields and the coal industry
• Old Barrington Meeting House — Rare 1765 meeting house
• Old Burying Ground — Unique concentration of gravestone art, from 1749
• Old Town Lunenburg Historic District — Homogeneous architectural ensemble on British model town plan
• Pictou Academy, Pictou, Nova Scotia — Site of first Pictou Academy, 1818-1932
• Pictou Railway Station (Intercolonial) — Eclectic Intercolonial railway station; 1904
• Pier 21 — Highly specialized building type related to early 20th-century Canadian immigration and post war immigration
• Port-Royal — Reconstruction of 1605 French settlement
• Poutrincourt's Mill — Site of 1607 flour mill
• Prince of Wales Tower — Late 18th-century stone defence tower, 1796-99
• Province House — Oldest legislative seat in Canada and site of the country's first responsible government.
• Royal Battery — Role in the 1745 and 1758 sieges of Louisbourg
• S.S. Acadia — Lead role in charting Hudson Bay, launched 1913
• Sainte-Anne / Port Dauphin — Precursor of Louisbourg
• Scots Fort — Site of Sir William Alexander's settlement, 1629-31
• Sinclair Inn / Farmer's Hotel — Inn circa 1781, early construction techniques
• Sir Frederick Borden Residence — Shingle style residence of prominent Canadian politician, 1902
• Springhill Coal Mining — One of Canada's most commercially important coalfields
• St. George's Anglican Church / Round Church — Unique Palladian style round church, 1800-12
• St. John's Anglican Church — Historically significant Carpenter's Gothic Revival church, 1754-63
• St. Mary's Basilica — Central role in the religious history of Nova Scotia, 1820-29
• St. Paul's Anglican Church — Early Palladian church, serving official Halifax, 1750
• St. Peter's — French trading post and fort, 1650-1758
• St. Peters Canal — Operational canal; structures dating from 19th-century
• Sydney WWII Coastal Defences — Safe port for World War II convoy assembly; Atlantic Bulwark
• Trinity Anglican Church — Safe port for World War II convoy assembly; Atlantic Bulwark
• Truro Post Office — Early symbol of federal government
• Wolfe's Landing — Successful landing led to capture of Louisbourg, 1758
• York Redoubt — Major seaward defences of Halifax Harbour from the American Revolutionary War until World War II

[edit] Nunavut — 11

• Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk — Inuit summer occupation sites with rich history and surviving in situ resources
• Beechey Island Sites — Sites related to 19th-century Arctic exploration, specifically: Franklin Wintering Site; Northumberland House; Cairns; Wreck of H.M.S. Breadalbane; and Devon Island Site at Cape Riley
• Blacklead Island Whaling Station — Aboriginal and European bowhead whaling
• Bloody Falls — Pre-contact hunting and fishing sites
• Erebus and Terror — Ships of Franklin's last expedition, 1845
• Fall Caribou Crossing — Site of critical importance to the historical survival of Inuit community
• Igloolik Island Archaeological Sites — Archaeological sequence, 2000 BC - 1000 AD
• Inuksuk — Inuit complex of 100 stone landmarks
• Kekerten Island Whaling Station — Aboriginal and European bowhead whaling
• Kodlunarn Island — Martin Frobisher habitation and iron smelting, 1576-1578
• Port Refuge — Pre-contact occupations, trade with Norse colonies

[edit] Ontario — 246

• Battle of the Windmill (Canada) — American invasion mission foiled, 1838
• Battlefield of Fort George — War of 1812, capture of Fort George by Americans, 1813
• Bellevue House — Important Italianate villa 1840's; home of Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (1867-73, 1878-91)
• Bethune Memorial House — Birthplace of Doctor Norman Bethune; of symbolic significance to the Chinese
• Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse — Round stone light tower, 1837
• Booth House — Prominent heritage mansion in Ottawa. Residence for students of Trinity Western University's Laurentian Leadership Centre.
• Butler's Barracks — Complex represents 150 years of military history
• Cathcart Tower — Mid 19th-century British imperial masonry fortifications
• Distillery District — Largest and best preserved collection of Victorian Industrial Architecture in North America. The Distillery District is a pedestrian village containing unique boutiques, art galleries, restaurants, artist studios and micro breweries, including the well-known Mill Street Brewery.
• Fort George, Ontario — Reconstructed British fort from War of 1812
• Fort Henry, Ontario — British fort completed 1836 to defend Rideau Canal
• Fort Malden — 19th-century border fortification; Fort Amherstburg; War of 1812
• Fort Mississauga — 19th-century brick tower within star-shaped earthworks; War of 1812
• Fort St. Joseph (Ontario) — British military outpost on western frontier, 1796-1812; War of 1812
• Fort Wellington — Military remains of 1813-38 fortifications; War of 1812
• Glengarry Cairn — Conical stone monument, with stairway, to the Glengarry and Argyle Regiment, erected in 1840
• HMCS Haida — Last of World War II tribal class destroyers
• Inverarden House — Important 1816 Regency cottage with fur trade associations
• Laurier House — Second Empire home, built in 1878, of two prime ministers of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Kensington Market — A culturally diverse hub of arts and culture in downtown Toronto
• Merrickville Blockhouse — Part of lock system of Rideau Canal, 1832-33
• Mississauga Point Lighthouse — Site of first lighthouse on great lakes, 1804
• Mnjikaning Fish Weirs — Aboriginal fishing site
• Murney Tower — Mid 19th-century British imperial masonry fortification
• Navy Island — Archaeological remains related to ship building
• Peterborough Lift Lock — World's highest hydraulic lift lock, 1896-1904
• Point Clark Lighthouse — Imperial tower and lightkeeper's house, 1859
• Queenston Heights — Site of 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights; includes Brock Monument; War of 1812
• Rideau Canal — Operational canal; 202 km route, forty-five locks
• St. James-the-Less Anglican Church (Toronto, Ontario) — Example of Gothic Revival architecture from 1860–1861
• Saint-Louis Mission — Site of Huron village destroyed by Iroquois in 1649
• Sault Ste. Marie Canal — First electrically-powered lock, 1888-94
• Shoal Tower — Mid 19th-century British imperial masonry fortifications
• Sir John Johnson House — House of famous Loyalist, 1780s
• Southwold Earthworks — Site of Attiwandaronk Indian village, circa 1500 AD
• Trent-Severn Waterway — Operational canal; 386 km route, forty-five locks
• Woodside House — Boyhood home of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (1921-26, 1926-30, 1936-48)
• Willowbank Heritage Estate — Built in 1834 for Alexander Hamilton, the property illustrates the Romantic fusion of Classical Revival architecture, with a picturesque landscape.

[edit] Prince Edward Island — 22

• Alberton Court House — Circuit court house, 1877
• All Souls Chapel — Outstanding High Victorian Gothic chapel with murals, 1888
• Apothecaries Hall — Site of prominent 19th-century pharmacy; one of the longest continually operated pharmacies in Canada
• Ardgowan — Residence of Father of Confederation William Henry Pope, circa 1850
• Charlottetown City Hall — Oldest municipal hall in Prince Edward Island, 1888
• Confederation Centre of the Arts — Outstanding example of a national institution dedicated to the performing arts; distinguished example of "Brutalist" architecture in Canada
• Dalvay-by-the-Sea — Queen Anne Revival summer home, built 1896-99
• Dundas Terrace — Queen Anne Revival apartment building, 1889
• Fairholm — Picturesque villa; 1839
• Farmers' Bank of Rustico — One of first co-operative banks in Canada, 1864
• Former Summerside Post Office — Early example of federal government presence, 1883-87
• Government House — Neoclassical vice-regal residence
• Great George Street Historic District — Fine 19th-century streetscape associated with Confederation
• Kensington Railway Station — Picturesque cobblestone 1904 railway station
• L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish — Intimately associated with Lucy Maud Montgomery's formative years and early productive career
• Port-la-Joye—Fort Amherst — Remains of British and French forts
• Province House — Neoclassical birthplace of Confederation and second oldest legislative seat in Canada.
• Roma at Three Rivers — Site of Acadian fishing and trade post, 1732-45
• Shaw's Hotel — Rare, early illustration of a significant period in the history of tourism in Canada
• St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic Basilica — Fine example of High Victorian Gothic style, 1897-1907
• Strathgartney Homestead — Reminder of land tenure system that dominated political and social life on the island for over a century
• Tryon United Church — Fine example of High Victorian Gothic Revival, 1881

[edit] Quebec — 165

• Artillery Park (Québec, Québec) — An important complex of 18th and 19th-century defence structures
• Battle of the Châteauguay — Site of 1813 battle in defence of Lower Canada; War of 1812
• Battle of the Restigouche — Site of last naval battle in Seven Years' War
• Carillon Barracks — Early 19th-century stone military building
• Carillon Canal — Operational canal; site of two earlier canals, 1826-33
• Cartier-Brébeuf National Historic Site — Wintering place of Jacques Cartier, 1535-36
• Chambly Canal — Operational canal; nine locks, swing bridges
• Coteau-du-Lac — 18th-century transportation and defence structures
• Forges du Saint-Maurice — Remains of Canada's first industrial village
• Fort Chambly — Restored and stabilized 1709 stone fort
• Fort Lennox — Outstanding example of early 19th-century fortifications
• Fort Témiscamingue — Remains of French fur trading post
• Fortifications of Quebec City — 4.6-km network of walls, gates and squares
• Grande-Grave (Gaspé, Québec) — A former coastal fishing village
• Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial — Quarantine station for immigrants from 1832-1937
• Lachine Canal — Operational canal; five locks, railway / road bridges
• Lévis Forts — Part of Québec fortification system
• Louis St. Laurent House — Childhood home of Louis S. St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, 1948-57
• Louis-Joseph Papineau House — Stone house built in 1785, associated with Louis-Joseph Papineau
• Maillou House — Fine example of 18th-century Quebec town architecture, 1736
• Manoir Papineau — 19th-century manor, home of Patriot leader, Louis-Joseph Papineau
• Montmorency Park — Site of bishop's palace; Parliament of Canada 1851-55
• Pointe-au-Père lighthouse — Early reinforced concrete lighttower at strategic location
• Québec Garrison Club — Only private military club in Canada perpetuating the British colonial tradition of assembling military officers in a social environment, 1879
• Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux — Integral part of Québec's defence system; the seat of colonial executive authority for over 200 years
• Saint-Ours Canal — Operational canal; 1933 (and remains of 1849) lock
• Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal — Operational canal; site of earlier 1843 canal
• Sir George-Étienne Cartier House — Double house of prominent 19th-century politician, 1830s
• The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site — Stone warehouse used as depot, 1803

[edit] Saskatchewan — 41

• Addison Sod House — Remarkably well-preserved and rare surviving example of the sod type of construction
• Batoche — Métis village; site of 1885 Battle of Batoche
• Battle of Cut Knife Hill — Cree repulse Canadian attack, 1885
• Battle of Duck Lake — First battle of 1885 Northwest Rebellion
• Battle of Fish Creek — Site of battle between Métis and Canadian forces, 1885
• Battleford Court House — 1909 symbol of justice in new province
• Biggar Railway Station (Grand Trunk Pacific) — Typical 1910 station, reflects railway impact on the West
• Canadian Bank of Commerce — Rare extant example of prefabricated western bank
• Claybank Brick Plant — Important early 20th-century brick making complex
• College Building — Main component of an excellent example of university buildings in the College Gothic Style in Canada
• Cumberland House — Hudson's Bay Company post established by Samuel Hearne, 1774
• Cypress Hills Massacre — 1873 attack on Assiniboines by wolf hunters, North West Mounted Police restored order
• Forestry Farm Park and Zoo — Important federal contribution to prairie forestation
• Former Prince Albert City Hall — Rare surviving 19th-century town hall on Prairies
• Fort à la Corne — Site of several fur trade posts, 1753-1932; North West Company
• Fort Battleford — North West Mounted Police headquarters, 1876
• Fort Carlton — Site of Hudson's Bay Company post, 1795-1885
• Fort Espérance — Remains of 2 North West Company fur trade posts
• Fort Livingstone — Original headquarters of North West Mounted Police
• Fort Pelly — Remains of Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post
• Fort Pitt — Site of Hudson's Bay Company post, signing of Treaty nº 6
• Fort Qu'Appelle — Hudson's Bay Company fort, negotiation of Treaty nº 4
• Fort Walsh — Early North West Mounted Police post
• Frenchman Butte — Site of 1885 battle, Cree and Canadian troops
• Government House — Territorial government building, 1891-1905
• Gravelbourg Ecclesiastical Buildings — Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Cathedral, bishop's residence and Convent of Jesus and Mary from Prairie Franco-Catholic colony, 1918-19
• Gray Burial Site — One of oldest burial sites in Plains, circa 3000 BC
• Holy Trinity Church — Early Anglican Gothic Revival mission church in the West, 1852-56
• Humboldt Post Office — Romanesque Revival Post Office reflects growth of West, 1911
• Île-à-la-Crosse — Fur trade site, Hudson's Bay Company
• Keyhole Castle — Expression of Queen Anne Revival style
• Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary — First wildfowl sanctuary in North America, 1887
• Moose Jaw Court House — Beaux-Arts symbol of justice in a new province
• Motherwell Homestead — Farm of William Richard Motherwell built in 1882, noted politician and scientific farmer
• Next of Kin Memorial Avenue — Road of remembrance commemorating World War I soldiers
• Old Government House / Saint-Charles Scholasticate — Seat of territorial government, 1878
• Saskatchewan Legislative Building and Grounds — Well-preserved landscape designed according to Beaux-Arts and City Beautiful principles
• Saskatoon Railway Station (Canadian Pacific) — Château style station begun in 1907
• Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm — Typical grain farm of early 20th-century developed by Seager Wheeler
• Steele Narrows — Last engagement of Northwest Rebellion, 1885
• Wanuskewin — Complex of Plains Indian cultural sites

[edit] Yukon Territory — 12

• Canadian Bank of Commerce — Important banking services were performed here from the gold rush of 1898 until 1989
• Dawson Historical Complex — Important collection of buildings from the Klondike Gold Rush
• Discovery Claim (Claim 37903) — Site of discovery of gold in 1896; marks the beginning of the development of the Yukon
• Dredge No. 4 — Symbolizes importance of dredging operations (1899-1966) with the evolution of gold mining in the Klondike
• Former Territorial Court House — Substantial frame judicial building, 1900-01
• Northwest Mounted Police Married Quarters — Served as the North West Mounted Police married quarters; 1889-1905
• Old Territorial Administration Building — Symbolizes the establishment of the linkage between the territories north of sixty and southern Canadian society
• S.S. Keno — Wooden steamboat built 1922, 140 by 30 feet (43 by 9 m) three decks
• S.S. Klondike — Largest and last Yukon commercial steamboat
• St. Paul's Anglican Church — Fine example of Gothic Revival design, 1902
• Tr'ochëk — Aboriginal cultural landscape
• Yukon Hotel — The Binet Block stood at the southern end of a business district extending north to King Street; 1898

[edit] France — 2

• Beaumont-Hamel — Represents Newfoundland's accomplishment, contribution and sacrifice in World War I
• Vimy Ridge — Represents Canada's accomplishment, contribution and sacrifice in World War I. The land for the site of the memorial (about 1 km²) was granted in perpetuity to Canada by France in 1922.

[edit] External links

• Map of the entire National Historic Sites of Canada system plan
• List of the 155 National Historic Sites that are administered by Parks Canada
• Searchable directory of all designations of National Historic Significance of Canada (including sites, people, and events)