This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in Kingston, Ontario. There are 20 National Historic Sites designated in Kingston,[1] including the Rideau Canal which extends from Ottawa and traverses 202 kilometres (126 mi) to Kingston. Six of the sites are administered by Parks Canada: Bellevue House, Fort Henry, Kingston Fortifications, Murney Tower, Rideau Canal and Shoal Tower.[2] Fort Henry and Fort Frontenac were both designated in 1923 and were the first sites designated in Kingston.
National Historic Sites located elsewhere in Ontario are listed at List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Ontario.
This list uses names designated by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, which may differ from other names for these sites.
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| Site | Date(s) | Designated | Location | Description | Image |
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| Ann Baillie Building [3][4] | 1904 (completed) | 1997 | Kingston |
One of the first purpose-built nurses’ residences in Canada, the building represents the professionalization of nursing in Canada in the early 20th-century, and now serves as the Museum of Health Care | |
| Bellevue House [5][6] | 1841 (completed) | 1995 | Kingston |
A noted example of Italianate architecture in the Picturesque manner in Canada, and the former residence of John A. Macdonald, a Father of Confederation and the first Prime Minister of Canada | |
| Elizabeth Cottage [7][8] | 1843 (completed) | 1993 | Kingston |
A representative example of a 19th-century Gothic Revival villa | |
| Fort Frontenac [9][10] | 1673 (original fort completed) | 1923 | Kingston |
Originally a French trading post that served as a gateway to the West, the base of Robert de LaSalle’s explorations and a French outpost against the Iroquois and English forces | |
| Fort Henry [11][12] | 1840 (completed) | 1923 | Kingston |
British fort that served as the principal fortification among a series of military works designed to defend Kingston, its harbour and dockyard and the entrance to the Rideau Canal | |
| Frontenac County Court House [13][14] | 1858 (completed) | 1980 | Kingston |
Representative of the large-scale court houses erected in Ontario after 1850, when the Municipal Act was amended to give increased power to counties to construct court houses on a monumental scale to accommodate various county functions | |
| Kingston City Hall [15][16] | 1844 (completed) | 1961 | Kingston |
A prominent example of the Neoclassical style in Canada, with a landmark tholobate and dome; its scale and design are reflective of Kingtson's status at the time of construction as capital of the Province of Canada | |
| Kingston Customs House [17][18] | 1859 (completed) | 1971 | Kingston |
A limestone former customs house; an excellent example of the architectural quality of mid-19th-century public buildings designed in the British classical tradition | |
| Kingston Dry Dock [19][20] | 1892 (completed) | 1978 | Kingston |
An important construction and repair facility for ships on the Great Lakes; noted for the Second World War naval vessels, notably corvettes, built in this dry dock | |
| Kingston Fortifications [21][22] | 1840 (completed) | 1989 | Kingston |
A fortification system consisting of five installations (Fort Henry NHSC, Fort Frederick, Murney Tower NHSC, Shoal Tower NHSC and Cathcart Tower), crucial to the 19th century defense of Kingston and the terminus of the Rideau Canal | |
| Kingston General Hospital [23][24] | 1833-1924 (completion of historic buildings) | 1995 | Kingston |
A complex of limestone buildings, built between 1833 and 1924, set in a campus of more recent hospital buildings; the oldest public hospital in Canada still in operation, with facilities illustrative of health care in Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries | |
| Kingston Navy Yard [25] | 1788 (established) | 1928 | Kingston |
The site of a Royal Navy Dockyard from 1788 to 1853 | |
| Kingston Penitentiary [26][27] | 1835 (established) | 1990 | Kingston |
Canada’s oldest reformatory prison, with a layout that served as a model for other federal prisons for more than a century; its massive stone wall and north gate are an imposing local landmark | |
| Murney Tower [28][29] | 1846 (completed) | 1930 | Kingston |
A martello tower located on Murray Point on the west shore of Kingston Harbour; also a component of the Kingston Fortifications National Historic Site of Canada | |
| Old Kingston Post Office [30][31] | 1859 (completed) | 1971 | Kingston |
A two-storey, limestone building built in the Neoclassical style, illustrative of the popularity of neoclassical elements in the mid-19th century and the eclecticism of early Victorian architecture in Canada | |
| Point Frederick Buildings [32][33] | 1973 | Kingston |
A peninsula upon which a major British naval base was located during the War of 1812; an assemblage of architecturally significant structures used by the Royal Military College of Canada | ||
| Rideau Canal [34][35] | 1837 (completed) | 1925 | Ottawa to Kingston |
Built for the British government by Lieutenant-Colonel John By as a defensive work in the event of war with the United States, the canal is the best preserved example of a 19th century slack water canal in North America, with most of its original structures intact | |
| Roselawn [36][37] | 1841 (completed) | 1969 | Kingston |
A two-storey neoclassical house, now used as a conference centre by Queen's University; at one time the centre of a large estate, it is representative of the large 19th-century country houses built for affluent Kingstonians just beyond the (then) city outskirts | |
| Shoal Tower [38][39] | 1847 (completed) | 1930 | Kingston |
A martello tower located on a shoal in Kingston harbour; a component of the Kingston Fortifications NHSC, and symbolic of Kingston's military and naval significance in the 19th century | |
| Sir John A. Macdonald Gravesite [40][41] | 1891 (burial) | 1938 | Kingston |
The burial place of Sir John A. Macdonald, a Father of Confederation and the first Prime Minister of Canada, in Cataraqui Cemetery |
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