This is a list of National Historic Sites in Manitoba (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Manitoba). There are 58 National Historic Sites designated in the province, eight of which are administered by Parks Canada.[1] [2] This list uses names designated by the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board, which may differ from other names for these sites.
Numerous National Historic Events also occurred across Manitoba, and are identified at places associated with them using the same style of federal plaques that marks National Historic Sites. Several National Historic Persons are commemorated throughout the province in the same way. The markers do not indicate which designation—a Site, Event, or Person—a subject has been given.
| Site | Date(s) | Designated | Location | Description | Image | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1816 (battle) | 1920 | Winnipeg 49.9319°N -97.1211°W | The site of a violent conflict between a group of Métis led by Cuthbert Grant and a party of Red River settlers led by Governor Robert Semple | |||
| 1941 (completed) | 2001 | Brandon 49.9044°N -99.9442°W | A well-preserved example of a British Commonwealth Air Training Plan hangar from the Second World War, still in its original location | |||
| Brockinton[3] | 800 AD (c.) | 1973 | Melita 49.1475°N -101.0297°W | An archaeological site with evidence of three distinct cultures: a bison kill and butchering pound circa 800 AD, a Duck Bay culture occupation about 1100–1350, and the first excavated evidence in Canada of the Williams culture from about 1600 | ||
| Brookside Cemetery | 1878 | 2023 | Winnipeg 49.9205°N -97.2224°W | Largest and one of the oldest cemeteries in the West, noted for its picturesque design and Field of Honour | ||
| Camp Hughes[4] | 1909 (established) | 2011 | North Cypress 49.8837°N -99.5513°W | More than 38,000 Canadians trained at this camp during the First World War, many of whom fought at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 | ||
| 1906 (completed) | 1982 | Winnipeg 49.9047°N -97.1317°W | A four-storey former railway station; its landmark Beaux-Arts design and elaborate Tyndall stone detailing reflect the early 20th century growth and importance of both the Canadian Pacific Railway and Winnipeg as Western Canada's transportation hub | |||
| 1956 (established) | 1988 | Churchill 58.7342°N -93.8203°W | A former facility for the launching, tracking and retrieval of rockets; long Canada's foremost upper atmosphere research centre | |||
| 1912 (completed) | 1976 | Winnipeg 49.8986°N -97.1386°W | A 10-storey office building; a good example of an early Sullivan-inspired skyscraper; also part of the Early Skyscrapers in Winnipeg NHSC | |||
| 1895 (completed) | 1990 | Winnipeg 49.8858°N -97.1419°W | A red-brick house with a large wooden verandah, originally built for Hugh John Macdonald; a good example of the Queen Anne Revival style in Canada | |||
| Dominion Exhibition Display Building II | 1913 (completed) | 1999 | Brandon 49.8314°N -99.9575°W | A wooden exhibition building; the only known surviving building constructed for the Dominion Exhibition held annually from 1879 to 1913 | ||
| Early Skyscrapers in Winnipeg | 1912-18 (period of construction) | 1981 | Winnipeg 49.8969°N -97.1383°W | A group of three tall commercial buildings (Union Trust Tower, the Confederation Building, and the Bank of Hamilton building) within the Exchange District. Reflective of the Chicago School, the group typifies Winnipeg's early skyscrapers, which marked the beginning of the city's modern urban core. | ||
| 1880 (established) | 1996 | Winnipeg 49.8989°N -97.1404°W | A dense, turn-of-the-century warehousing and business centre, comprising about 150 buildings; contains a number of architecturally significant buildings illustrating Winnipeg's key role as a gateway to Western Canada between 1880 and 1913 | |||
| First Homestead in Western Canada | 1872 (completed) | 1945 | Portage la Prairie 50.0625°N -98.2856°W | The site of the first homestead in Western Canada, established under the federal government's new survey system | ||
| Former Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School[5] | 1915 | September 1, 2020 | Long Plain First Nation 49.9623°N -98.323°W | A rare surviving example of a residential school, where the federal government and certain churches and religious organizations worked together to assimilate Indigenous children as part of a broad set of efforts to destroy Indigenous cultures and identities and suppress Indigenous histories. | ||
| 1904 (completed) | 1996 | Winnipeg 49.8989°N -97.1394°W | A 10-storey tower with a single-storey annex; the first skyscraper in Western Canada, representative of the key role played by finance in the expansion of the west | |||
| 1741 (established) | 1943 | Winnipegosis 51.655°N -99.9219°W | The site of a fort built by Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye in the fall of 1741 at the request of the Cree and Assiniboine peoples | |||
| 1872 (established) | 1937 | Emerson 49.0306°N -97.2019°W | Buildings used as the main camp for the North American Boundary Commission in 1872, and then used by the North-West Mounted Police in preparing for the "March West" in 1875; representative of Canada's assertion of sovereignty over Manitoba and the North-West Territories in the 1870s | |||
| 1913 (completed) | 1981 | Winnipeg 49.8878°N -97.1367°W | One of a series of Château-style hotels built by Canadian railway companies in the early 20th century to encourage tourists to travel the country's transcontinental routes | |||
| 1738 (established) | 1925 | Portage la Prairie 49.9511°N -98.3272°W | ||||
| Forts Rouge, Garry, and Gibraltar | 1738 (Rouge established)1807 (Gibraltar est.) 1821 (Garry est.) | 1924 | Winnipeg 49.8879°N -97.1353°W 49.8993°N -97.1257°W | The sites of three fur trade forts once located near the forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers (the north gate of Fort Garry II is the only surviving above-ground remains); representative of the three phases of the fur trade | ||
| 1851 (completed) | 1958 | Winnipeg 49.8878°N -97.1231°W | A convent built for the Grey Nuns and the first mission house of its kind in Western Canada; an outstanding example of Red River frame construction, and the oldest convent in use on the Canadian Prairies at the time of its designation | |||
| 1884 (completed) | 1990 | Winnipeg 49.8925°N -97.1422°W | A noted example of Victorian High Gothic architecture in Canada; a landmark church in central Winnipeg which has witnessed the evolution of the area from open prairie to commercial core. | |||
| 1922 to 1941 (period of construction) | 1995 | Shellmouth-Boulton 50.9439°N -101.2492°W | A row of five wooden elevators lined up parallel to the railway tracks; rare surviving prairie icons from the "golden age of grain" | |||
| Linear Mounds | 900 AD (c.) | 1973 | Melita 49.1158°N -101.0178°W | A site containing some of the best-preserved tumuli belonging to the Devil's Lake-Sourisford Burial Complex | ||
| 1830 (established) | 1950 | Selkirk 50.1122°N -96.9319°W | A Hudson's Bay Company fort comprising a number of restored and reconstructed buildings within and outside its stone walls; a major supply centre for the fur trade in Western Canada and the location of the signing of Treaty 1 | |||
| 1905 (completed) | 2008 | Winnipeg 49.8902°N -97.111°W | The -storey wood-frame house where Gabrielle Roy was born and lived for almost 30 years; the house inspired Roy's writing and she described and idealized it in several of her works | |||
| 1970 (completed) | 2009 | Winnipeg 49.8986°N -97.1367°W | ||||
| 1919 (completed) | 1991 | Winnipeg 49.8931°N -97.1428°W | A movie palace designed by C. Howard Crane; representative of the cultural impact of movie theatres in the 1920, and of the battle between the Allen and Famous Players chains for film-distribution supremacy in Canada | |||
| Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern) | 1905 (completed) | 1976 | Miami 49.3697°N -98.2439°W | A wooden railway station located in a rural community; a rare surviving example of a Canadian Northern Railway station | ||
| 1866 (c.) (completed) | 1962 | St. Andrews 50.0561°N -96.9881°W | A two-storey limestone structure on one of the original river lots, built to house a school to educate the daughters of settlers and Hudson's Bay Company officials: a noted example of mid 19th-century Red River architecture | |||
| 1884 (completed) | 1981 | Neepawa 50.2289°N -99.465°W | A two-storey buff brick building, the construction of which in the late-19th century secured Neepawa's place as the most prominent town in the district; representative of civic buildings of the period that were built to serve a number of public uses, in this case being the county and municipal offices, a courthouse, police station and theatre | |||
| 1876 (established) | 1989 | Rhineland 49.0744°N -97.4825°W | A living illustration of a Mennonite village on the Canadian Prairies, with the community's communal and self-sufficient values reflected in its development and architectural forms | |||
| 1825 (established) | 1932 | Norway House 53.9897°N -97.8172°W | The remnants of a former Hudson's Bay Company fort near the banks of the Nelson River; the company's principal inland depot for the fur trade and the site where Treaty 5 was signed in 1875 | |||
| 1914 (completed) | 1985 | Winnipeg 49.8989°N -97.1378°W | A former vaudeville theatre; one of the finest theatres built in Canada in this period for live theatrical performances | |||
| 1898 (completed) | 1983 | Portage la Prairie 49.9725°N -98.2864°W | Constructed as the town's post office, customs house and inland revenue office, now the city hall; representative of small urban post offices by Thomas Fuller | |||
| Prince of Wales Fort (Fort Churchill) | 1731 (established) | 1920 | Churchill 58.7972°N -94.2132°W | |||
| 1914 (completed) | 2009 | Winnipeg 49.8773°N -97.1593°W | ||||
| 1968 (completed) | 2000 | Winnipeg 50.09°N -96.9342°W | Winnipeg is located on a floodplain at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, and the floodway diverts excess waters harmlessly around the city; an outstanding engineering achievement both in terms of function and impact | |||
| 1936 (completed) | 1992 | Riding Mountain National Park 50.6828°N -99.5556°W | ||||
| 1881 (completed) | 1976 | Winnipeg 49.8192°N -97.1361°W | A squared log house set on the east side of the Red River, where Louis Riel was laid in state after his execution in 1885; representative of Métis river lots, a form of prairie settlement | |||
| 1909 (completed) | 1991 | Winnipeg 49.8806°N -97.1469°W | A five-storey red brick apartment building; a noted example of the Queen Anne Revival style and turn-of-the-century apartment design | |||
| 1969 | Churchill 58.7661°N -94.2628°W | |||||
| Souris-Assiniboine Posts | 1793 (establishment) | 1927 | Wawanesa 49.5994°N -99.6839°W | A major supply centre for the fur trade located at the confluence of the Souris and Assiniboine Rivers, where the Hudson's Bay, North West, and XY companies built at least seven forts between 1793 and 1824 | ||
| 1849 (completed) | 1970 | St. Andrews 50.0667°N -96.9764°W | The oldest surviving stone church in Western Canada which once served as a centre of Anglican missionary activity in Rupert's Land; the earliest example of Gothic Revival architecture in the West | |||
| 1854 (originally completed) | 1962 | St. Andrews 50.0664°N -96.9775°W | A two-storey, stone house, first built as a residence for the Anglican parish priest; illustrative of Hudson's Bay Company architecture, which adapted building techniques from Scotland to the Canadian frontier | |||
| 1910 (completed) | 1990 | Lockport 50.0844°N -96.9397°W | A 270adj=midNaNadj=mid bridge-dam spanning the Red River; largest movable dam of its type ever constructed, and possibly the only surviving dam of its type in the world | |||
| 1905 (completed) | 1984 | Winnipeg 49.8928°N -97.1206°W | Built during a period of rapid growth in St. Boniface, it is an outstanding example of a town hall in Western Canada; its large size and formal Classical Revival style was thought to convey the dominance, stability and optimism as a visual symbol of the small city | |||
| 1928 (completed) | 1997 | Winnipeg 49.8842°N -97.1242°W | A five-storey brick building originally built as a nursing school and residence; constructed in a period of growing recognition of nursing as a profession and it continues to commemorate the contribution of nurses to medicine and the role of women as health care professionals | |||
| St. Michael's Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church | 1899 (completed) | 1987 | Stuartburn 49.0717°N -96.7406°W | A Byzantine-style wooden church built by the first group of immigrants to Canada from Bukovina, making it the first permanent Ukrainian Orthodox church erected in Canada; representative of early Ukrainian ecclesiastical architecture in Canada, and commemorative of the cultural heritage and skilled craftsmanship the first Ukrainians brought to their new country | ||
| 4000 BC (c.) | 1974 | Winnipeg 49.8867°N -97.1283°W | A recreational and commercial gathering place at a river junction that historically has served as an important transportation point; a cultural landscape that bears witness to 6,000 years of human activity, including being used as a meeting place, fishing camp, trading place and settlement | |||
| 1938 (completed) | 1996 | Springfield 50.0039°N -96.7728°W | A Kievan-style Ukrainian church whose domes present a distinctive silhouette on the surrounding flat prairie; one of the most ambitious and accomplished of the "Prairie Cathedrals" designed by the Reverend Philip Ruh | |||
| Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Resurrection | 1939 (completed) | 1997 | Dauphin 51.1417°N -100.0614°W | A large multi-domed concrete church built by the Dauphin Block Ukrainians, planned by Philip Ruh and decorated by Theodore Baran, all based on models in Kiev and Byzantine-style iconography; a memorable expression of the pride and cultural values of the Ukrainian Canadians and a lasting and sophisticated symbol of their roots | ||
| 1919 (completed) | 2009 | Winnipeg 49.9178°N -97.1486°W | ||||
| 1911 (completed) | 1976 | Winnipeg 49.8889°N -97.1342°W | A Beaux-Arts railway terminal; one of Western Canada's largest railway stations, the construction of which symbolized the confidence of the railway companies and the government in the growth of the West | |||
| 1907 (completed) | 1991 | Winnipeg 49.8958°N -97.1436°W | A noted example of a surviving early legitimate theatre in Canada, unique in the country due to the Chicago influences in its design; associated with political rallies in its early years, particularly related to the labour and women's suffrage movements | |||
| 1897 (established) | 1997 | Gilbert Plains 51.3072°N -100.4506°W | Ten log buildings with associated fields and orchards that collectively represent one of the earliest and best preserved examples of a Ukrainian farm in Canada | |||
| 1916 (completed) | 1981 | Winnipeg 49.8867°N -97.1467°W | A three-storey, Beaux-Arts court house of sculpted grey limestone, located directly across from the Manitoba Legislative Building; its siting and classically inspired design symbolize the importance of Manitoba's court system | |||
| 1684 (established) | 1936 | York Factory 57.0028°N -92.3047°W | ||||