Canada's Historic Places Explorer

Discover and explore historically significant places across Canada

— Total Places

— Earliest Record

Data collected by Shawn Graham from the Canadian Register of Historic Places, which is going offline in the Spring of 2026.
This site visualizes the metadata from the Register, and provides links to existing entries in the Register (for now).
Click on data facets to drill down into the data. Check the repository for the source code and instructions on how to add new visualizations.

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Geographic Distribution

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Places by Category Click to filter

Recognition Timeline Heritage designations over time

Recognition Authority Click to filter

Construction Era When places were built

Recognition Types by Province Click to filter

Topic Modeling: Evolving Heritage Values NMF-based topic discovery. Calculated when you hit 'Run Topic Model'. This can take some time, be patient.

Text Field:

Language:

Topics: 8

Iterations: 100

English documents: —

French documents: —

Unknown: —

Select options and click "Run Topic Model" to analyze heritage discourse over time.

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