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Lists of historic places in Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2022
Entity authorityQ3250865 ↗
Source-derived summary

The list of historic places in Canada contains heritage sites listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP), all of which are designated as historic places either locally, provincially, territorially, nationally, or by more than one level of government. For convenience, the list is divided by province or administrative entities. Since there are thousands of historic places in Canada, this is an editorial choice and not official.

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The public source identifies “Lists of historic places in Canada” as wikimedia list article. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lists, historic and places.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lists, historic and places providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lists of historic places in Canada” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.