List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Nova Scotia

This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in the province of Nova Scotia. There are 87 National Historic Sites designated in Nova Scotia, of which 26 are administered by Parks Canada.

This list uses names designated by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, which may differ from other names for these sites.

National Historic Sites

Fortress of Louisbourg

Lunenburg Academy

St. John's Anglican Church (Lunenburg)

Sambro Island Light

Georges Island, Halifax Harbour

Grand Pré

Pier 21

HMCS Sackville

Province House

• Acacia Grove / Prescott House – Georgian home of horticulturalist Charles Ramage Prescott
• Admiralty House, Halifax – 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 – 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. Designated: 2005 Location: Fort Lawrence 45.848494, -64.266801
• Bedford Petroglyphs – Spiritually significant petroglyph site
• Black-Binney House – Palladian urban residence, 1819
• Bloody Creek – Site of two French-English combats, 1711 and 1757
• CSS Acadia – Pioneering research ship, Lead role in charting Hudson Bay, launched 1913
• Canso Islands – Site of fishing centre, 16th- to 19th century. Designated: 1925 Location: Canso Islands 45.344348, -60.971203
• 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
• Charles Fort – Site of Sir William Alexander's settlement, 1629–31. Designated: 1951 Location: Annapolis Royal 44.740801, -65.519907
• Covenanters' Church – Historic Presbyterian meeting house, circa 1804–11
• D'Anville's Encampment – French expedition to retake Louisbourg, 1746. Designated: 1925 Location: Halifax 44.674718, -63.646548
• Debert Palaeo-Indian Site – Archaeological remains of Aboriginal caribou hunting
• Fernwood – Gothic Revival villa, circa 1860
• Fort Anne – 1695–1708 fortifications. Designated: 1920 Location: Annapolis Royal 44.741243, -65.518534
• Fort Edward – Played a role in the struggle for predominance in North America, 1750–1812; oldest blockhouse in Canada and North America, 1750. Designated: 1920 Location: Windsor 44.995397,-64.132692
• Fort Lawrence – British fort, 1750–55. Designated: 1923 Location: Fort Lawrence 45°50'51"N 64°15'40"W
• Fort McNab – Fort built in 1889 to defend Halifax Harbour. Designated: 1965 Location: Halifax 44.6, -63.516667
• Fort Ste. Louis – Site of French fort, 1630
• Fort Sainte Marie de Grace – First permanent French settlement in Acadia, 1632. Designated: 1924 Location: LaHave 44.288315, -64.351349
• Fortress of Louisbourg – Reconstruction of 18th-century French fortress. Designated: 1920 Location: Louisbourg 45.892382, -59.986210
• Fraser Octagon House - Octagon house built in 1857 in Tatamagouche
• Georges Island – Harbour fortification; contains Fort Charlotte. Designated: 1965 Location: Halifax 44.640833, -63.559722
• Government House – Excellent, early, Palladian style vice-regal residence
• Attack at Grand Pre - 1747 battle
• Grand-Pré – Commemorates Acadian settlement and expulsion. Designated: 1982 Location: Grand-Pré 45.109444,-64.310278
• Grand-Pré Rural Historic District – Acadian / English planter settlement area with surviving land-use patterns
• Granville Block - Early influential demonstration that heritage conservation is a viable approach to urban planning and redevelopment
• Grassy Island Fort – Centre of English fishery in 18th century. Designated: 1962 Location: Grassy Island 45.337333, -60.973080
• Halifax Armoury – Large, urban, Romanesque Revival drill hall for the active militia, 1895–99
• Halifax Citadel – Restored British masonry fort, 1828–56. Designated: 1935 Location: Halifax 44.647398, -63.580241
• 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, North End, Halifax – 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, petroglyphs. Designated: 1992 Location: all of Kejimkujik National Park, except the Seaside Unit 44.379560, -65.306854
• 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, Halifax – 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 National Historic Site, Glace Bay – Site of first wireless station in Canada. Designated: 1939
• Marconi Wireless Station – First regular public transatlantic wireless service
• Melanson Settlement – Pre-expulsion Acadian farm community, 1664–1755. Designated: 1986 Location: Lower Granville 44.71126, -65.61116
• 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, Halifax – Unique concentration of gravestone art, from 1749
• Old Town Lunenburg Historic District – Homogeneous architectural ensemble on British model town plan; UNESCO World Heritage Site
• 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
• Sainte-Anne / Port Dauphin – Precursor of Louisbourg
• Sambro Island Lighthouse - Oldest surviving lighthouse in Canada, 1758
• 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 (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) – Lunenburg Historically significant Carpenter's Gothic Revival church, 1754–63
• St. Mary's Basilica, Halifax – 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
• Thinkers' Lodge - Site of scientific conference to discuss threat of nuclear weapons
• 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

See also

• History of Nova Scotia