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Borduas, Paul-Émile National Historic Person (NHS)
Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
Munitions Production at Defence Industries Limited Factories National Historic Event (NHS)
Ajax, Ontario
Gaspard, Dr. Dominique François (NHS)
TBD,
The Canadian Corps of Commissionaires National Historic Event (NHS)
TBD,
Blockhouse Point Lighthouse (HL)
Rocky Point, Prince Edward Island
The Blockhouse Point Lighthouse is a wooden square-tapered tower with an attached two-storey lightkeeper’s residence. Built in 1876, the lighthouse achieves a height of 12.8 metres (42 feet) from base...
Jackson, Albert Calvin National Historic Person (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
Bryce, Peter Henderson National Historic Person (NHS)
TBD, N/A
Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes National Historic Event (NHS)
TBD, N/A
Cumyow, Won Alexander National Historique Person (NHS)
TBD, British Columbia
McGill, Dr. Frances Gertrude National Historic Person (NHS)
TBD,
Rockhead, Rufus Nathaniel National Historique Person (NHS)
Montréal, Quebec
Arrival of Vietnamese Refugees in Canada National Historic Event (NHS)
Montréal, Quebec
Montferrand, Jos (Joseph Montferrand dit Favre) National Historic Person (NHS)
Mattawa, Ontario
Creation of Canada's Permanent Military Force (1871–1883) National Historic Event (NHS)
Kingston, Ontario
Shiibaashka’igan - The Jingle Dress National Historic Event (NHS)
TBD,
Shaganash Island Lighthouse (HL)
Thunder Bay, Ontario
The Shaganash Island Lighthouse is a 9.4 metres (30.5 feet) tall, square-tapered wooden lighthouse situated on Island No.10, just west of Shaganash Island, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Located...
Exclusion of Chinese Immigrants, 1923–1947 National Historic Event (NHS)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Black Migrations to Sierra Leone (1792 and 1800) National Historic Event (NHS)
TBD,
Broussard dit Beausoleil, Joseph National Historic Person (NHS)
Moncton, New Brunswick
Catherwood, Ethel National Historic Person (NHS)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Celebrations of Emancipation Day National Historic Event (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
Casgrain, Thérèse National Historic Person (NHS)
TBD, Quebec
Humphrey, John P. National Historic Person (NHS)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia National Historic Event (NHS)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Peters, Thomas National Historic Person (NHS)
Digby, Nova Scotia
Tackaberry Skates National Historic Event (NHS)
Brandon, Manitoba
Seacow Head Lighthouse (HL)
Fernwood, Prince Edward Island
Seacow Head Lighthouse is located at the entrance to Bedeque Bay and the Summerside Harbour. One of the oldest standing lighthouses in the Maritimes, the tapered, octagonal lighthouse measures 18.3 me...
Ware, John National Historic Person (NHS)
Longview, Alberta
Caissie Point Lighthouse (HL)
Dundas (Cap-de-Caissie), New Brunswick
The Caissie Point Lighthouse is a 13.9 metres (46 feet) square, tapered, wooden lighthouse located in the village of Cap-de-Caissie on the southeastern shore of New Brunswick. Constructed in 1872, the...
Margaretsville Lighthouse (HL)
Margaretsville, Nova Scotia
Margaretsville Lighthouse is a 9.7 m square tapered light tower featuring white painted shingles with a black horizontal daymark. It is a coastal light that sits on a small point that projects into th...
Pointe à Jérôme Front Range Lighthouse (HL)
Bouctouche, New Brunswick
The Pointe à Jérôme Front Range Lighthouse is a 6.3-metre (20.6 feet) square, tapered, wooden tower. Located near the town of Bouctouche, New Brunswick on the north side of Bouctouche Harbour, the lig...
Le Jeune, Olivier National Historic Person (NHS)
Québec, Quebec
Breaking Racial Barriers in the National Hockey League National Historic Event (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
Cooley, Chloe National Historic Person (NHS)
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Stewart, John National Historic Person (NHS)
Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island
Smith, Marie Rose (Delorme) National Historic Person (NHS)
Pincher Creek, Alberta
Burlington Canal Main Lighthouse (HL)
Hamilton, Ontario
The Burlington Canal Main Lighthouse is a 16.7 metre (55 feet) tall, circular, tapered, limestone tower with an iron lantern and catwalk. The lighthouse marks the entrance to the Burlington Canal. It ...
Brier Island Lighthouse (HL)
Digby, Nova Scotia
The Brier Island Lighthouse is an 18-metre (59 feet) tapered, octagonal, reinforced- concrete tower that is surmounted by a red octagonal lantern. Located on the westernmost tip of the 7-kilometre lon...
Grand Passage Lighthouse (HL)
Digby, Nova Scotia
The Grand Passage Lighthouse is an 8.5 metre (28 feet) square, reinforced-concrete tower located on the northern tip of Brier Island, Nova Scotia. The lighthouse marks the northern entrance to Grand P...
Peter Island Lighthouse (HL)
Peter Island, Nova Scotia
The Peter Island Lighthouse is a tapered, wooden, octagonal tower standing 13.4 metres (43.9 feet) in height. Located on the small, uninhabited Peter Island, it marks the southern entrance to the Gran...
Nahnebahwequay National Historic Person (NHS)
TBD, Ontario
Dixon, George National Historic Person (NHS)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Examination Unit (1941–1945) National Historic Event (NHS)
Ottawa, Ontario
Former Muscowequan Indian Residential School National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Muskowekwan First Nation, Saskatchewan
Warning: Reading about Residential Schools might be triggering or distressing. A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former Residential School student...
Former Shingwauk Indian Residential School National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Warning: Reading about Residential Schools might be triggering or distressing. A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former Residential School student...
Molson, John National Historic Person (NHS)
Montréal, Quebec
Sable Island Humane Establishment (1801–1958) National Historic Event (NHS)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Turner, The Right Honourable John Napier National Historic Person (NHS)
TBD,
Former Paris Town Hall National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Paris, Ontario
The Former Paris Town Hall National Historic Site of Canada is a two-and-a-half-storey rectangular building covered in brick with stone inserts. It features a side tower, which originally housed a bel...
Pierpoint, Richard National Historic Person (NHS)
Fergus, Ontario
Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential School National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
Warning: Reading about Residential Schools might be triggering or distressing. A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former Residential School student...
Former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Warning: Reading about Residential Schools might be triggering or distressing. A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former Residential School student...
Todd, Frederick Gage National Historic Person (NHS)
Montréal, Quebec
Gains, Larry National Historic Person (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
The Enslavement of African People in Canada (c.1629–1834) National Historic Event (NHS)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
West Indian Domestic Scheme, 1955-1967 National Historic Event (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
Place du Portage, Phase IV (FHBRO)
Gatineau, Quebec
Place du Portage, Phase IV is an imposing reinforced concrete Late Modern megastructure with High-Tech and Brutalist influences. It consists of stepped masses of differing heights and scales, roof ter...
Cape George Lighthouse (Bras d'Or Lake) (HL)
St. Peter's, Nova Scotia
The Cape George Lighthouse is an 8.2 metre (27 feet) tall, wooden, square tapered tower which guides mariners into St. Peters Inlet from Bras d’Or Lake, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. There ar...
Annandale Rear Range Lighthouse (HL)
Annandale, Prince Edward Island
The Annandale Rear Range Lighthouse is a 19.8 metre (65 feet) tapered, wooden tower which guides vessels into the Boughton River from the Northumberland Strait. It was constructed in 1901 to replace t...
Adams, Thomas National Historic Person (NHS)
Ottawa, Ontario
Tse'K'wa National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Fort St. John, British Columbia
Tse’K’wa National Historic Site of Canada is an archaeological site situated just north of the community of Fort St. John in the Peace River Regional District of British Columbia. The site is within t...
Rawson, Donald Strathearn National Historic Person (NHS)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
German U-Boat Attacks At Bell Island (1942) National Historic Event (NHS)
Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
Meshikamau-shipu Travel Route National Historic Event (NHS)
Upatshuan, Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland National War Memorial National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
The Newfoundland National War Memorial National Historic Site of Canada is located in downtown St. John’s, directly across from Harbourside Park, formerly King’s Beach. The memorial features five bron...
Enragée Point Lighthouse (HL)
Chéticamp Island, Nova Scotia
The Enragée Point Lighthouse is an octagonal, tapered, reinforced-concrete lighthouse built in 1956. The lighthouse measures 13.3 metres (44 feet) and overlooks the Gulf of the St. Lawrence from its ...
Labelle, Curé Antoine National Historic Person (NHS)
Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
Spadina National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
Spadina National Historic Site of Canada is located on a 5.7-acre (2.31 hectare) plot of land on the brow of Davenport Hill in the Casa Loma district of Toronto. It is a large, eclectic 55-room Edward...
David Dunlap Observatory National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Richmond Hill, Ontario
David Dunlap Observatory National Historic Site of Canada consists of four buildings on a 40-hectare campus. It includes: the Observatory Building, the Administration Building, Elms Lea (Director’s Ho...
Ducks Unlimited Canada National Historic Event (NHS)
Stonewall, Manitoba
Early Commercial Radio Broadcasting in Canada, 1918-1932 National Historic Event (NHS)
Montréal, Quebec
Historic Village of Val-Jalbert National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Chambord, Quebec
The Historic Village of Val-Jalbert National Historic Site of Canada covers an area of roughly 1.88 km2 located halfway between Chambord and Roberval in the Regional County Municipality (RCM) of Domai...
Prince, Thomas George "Tommy" National Historic Person (NHS)
TBD, Manitoba
Winnipeg Falcons Hockey Club National Historic Event (NHS)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Monastery, Servantes de Jésus-Marie Congregation (FHBRO)
Gatineau, Quebec
The Servantes de Jésus-Marie Congregation Monastery (the Monastery) is located on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River in the Hull sector of Gatineau. The Monastery is a red-brick, three-story convent ...
Freshwater Institute (FHBRO)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Freshwater Institute houses the offices and laboratories of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. It is a large, raw concrete building in the Late Modern and Brutalist styles, consisting of several asymmet...
Duvernay, Ludger National Historic Person (NHS)
Verchères, Quebec
Pegahmagabow, Francis National Historic Person (NHS)
Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario
Onondeyoh (Frederick Ogilvie Loft) National Historic Person (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
Miners' Union Hall National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Rossland, British Columbia
Miners’ Union Hall National Historic Site of Canada is a handsome timber building in the late-Victorian Gothic Revival Style prominently located in downtown Rossland, British Columbia. Located within ...
The Residential School System National Historic Event (NHS)
Multiple plaque locations,
Vancouver Japanese Language School National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver Japanese Language School National Historic Site of Canada is located in Japantown, in the Downtown East Side neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. Built in 1928, this two-storey, fla...
de Gannes-Cosby House National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
De Gannes-Cosby House National Historic Site of Canada is located on St. George Street, the primary residential and business thoroughfare in downtown Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. This rare surviving ...
Margaree Harbour Front Range Lighthouse (HL)
Inverness, Nova Scotia
Margaree Harbour Front Range Lighthouse is a traditional, square tapered wooden tower, standing 6.8 metres (22 feet). It is one of a pair of secondary range lighthouses constructed in 1900 to guide ve...
Margaree Harbour Rear Range Lighthouse (HL)
Inverness, Nova Scotia
Margaree Harbour Rear Range Lighthouse is a traditional, square tapered wooden tower, standing 10.15 metres (33 feet). It is one of a pair of secondary coastal range lighthouses constructed in 1900 to...
Place du Portage, Phase III (FHBRO)
Gatineau, Quebec
Place du Portage, Phase III (the third of the four-stage Portage Complex) is a Late Modern megastructure consisting of six connected towers that vary in height, in two stepped blocks, one on either si...
Kwisitis Visitor Centre (FHBRO)
Ucluelet, British Columbia
The two-storey Kwisitis Visitor Centre at Pacific Rim National Park Reserve possesses an irregular plan and elevation, aspects of which produce the appearance of a series of smaller buildings designed...
Construction of the Prince Edward Island Railway National Historic Event (NHS)
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway) National Historic Person (NHS)
Hastings, Ontario
Kahgegagahbowh was an early Anishinaabe author of popular non-fiction books in the late 1840s and early 1850s, which expressed pride in his nation, engaged with Victorian and Romantic literatures to c...
Hart Massey House National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Ottawa, Ontario
Hart Massey House National Historic Site of Canada is located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa. It is a two-storey, detached residential building. Elevated on thin steel columns, the house comprises a serie...
Truro Old Normal College National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Truro, Nova Scotia
Truro Old Normal College National Historic Site of Canada is located in the heart of downtown Truro, a town in central Nova Scotia less than 100 km northeast of Halifax. Clad in red brick with contras...
Ouimet, Léo-Ernest National Historic Person (NHS)
Montréal, Quebec
Park House National Historic Site of Canada (NHS)
Amherstburg, Ontario
Park House National Historic Site of Canada is an attractive one-and-a-half storey house of “French framed” construction, typical of 18th century French Canadian dwellings in the Detroit River region....
Isaacs Harbour Lighthouse (HL)
Guysborough County, Nova Scotia
The Isaacs Harbour Lighthouse is a 12.8 metre (42 feet), two-storey combined lighthouse and keepers’ dwelling which guides vessels into Isaacs Harbour. Located on the southeast coast of Nova Scotia, i...
Bayswater Lighthouse (HL)
Bayswater, New Brunswick
The Bayswater Lighthouse is a traditional, square tapered wooden tower, standing 8.8 metres (29 feet). It was constructed in 1913, and has been deactivated since 2005. The lighthouse is located on a s...
Early Science in Canada’s North and the Hudson’s Bay Company (1768 – ca. 1810) National Historic Event (NHS)
Churchill, Manitoba
Expo 67 National Historic Event (NHS)
Montreal, Quebec
Frye, Northrop National Historic Person (NHS)
Toronto, Ontario
Grannan, Mary National Historic Person (NHS)
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Hind, Henry Youle National Historic Person (NHS)
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
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