This is a list of National Historic Sites (French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in the province of Prince Edward Island. There are 22 National Historic Sites designated in Prince Edward Island, five of which are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon).[1] [2] The first National Historic Site to be designated in Prince Edward Island was Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers in 1933.
Numerous National Historic Events also occurred in P.E.I., and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which 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.
This list uses names designated by the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board, which may differ from other names for these sites.
| Site | Date(s) | Designated | Location | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alberton Court House[3] | 1878 (completed) | 1981 | Alberton 46.8125°N -64.0685°W | A simple wooden hall evocative of a pioneer church, now used as the local museum; representative of the six circuit courthouses, all built according to a standard plan after the passage of Prince Edward Island's County Courts Act in 1873 | |
| All Souls' Chapel[4] | 1888 (completed) | 1990 | Charlottetown 46.234°N -63.1327°W | A small chapel built of rust-red, Prince Edward Island sandstone, attached to St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral; known as an exceptional example of the High Victorian Gothic Revival style in Canada, and for its 18 interior mural paintings by Robert Harris | |
| Apothecaries Hall[5] | 1900 (completed) | 1969 | Charlottetown 46.2347°N -63.1281°W | A three-storey brick building in which an apothecary shop operated from 1810 to 1986, making it one of the oldest continually operated pharmacies in Canada | |
| Ardgowan[6] | 1850 (completed) | 1966 | Charlottetown 46.252°N -63.1263°W | The residence of William Henry Pope, a Father of Confederation; the Popes billetted George Brown and hosted a luncheon for delegates here during the Charlottetown Conference | |
| Charlottetown City Hall[7] | 1888 (completed) | 1984 | Charlottetown 46.2353°N -63.1296°W | A Romanesque Revival style town hall, the design of which symbolizes the growth and prosperity of Prince Edward Island and its capital in the late 19th century | |
| Confederation Centre of the Arts[8] | 1964 (completed) | 2003 | Charlottetown 46.2345°N -63.1268°W | A Brutalist style multi-purpose cultural centre containing a theatre, art gallery and public library; built as a memorial to the Fathers of Confederation who met at the Charlottetown Conference, the facility is representative of the wave of cultural complexes built in the 1960s and 1970s in Canada | |
| Dalvay-by-the-Sea[9] | 1899 (completed) | 1990 | Prince Edward Island National Park 46.4149°N -63.0733°W | A summer residence built for Alexander McDonald, president of Standard Oil of Kentucky; now a hotel, it is a noted example of the Queen Anne Revival style in Canadian domestic architecture | |
| Dundas Terrace[10] | 1889 (completed) | 1990 | Charlottetown 46.2302°N -63.1275°W | A wooden three-and-a-half-storey apartment building; a noted example of the Queen Anne Revival style in Canadian apartment building architecture | |
| Fairholm[11] | 1839 (completed) | 1992 | Charlottetown 46.2384°N -63.1272°W | A brick villa a carriage house built for Thomas Heath Haviland, Sr.; an excellent and rare surviving example of a Picturesque villa in Atlantic Canada | |
| Farmers' Bank of Rustico[12] | 1863 (completed) | 1959 | North Rustico 46.4233°N -63.2834°W | A stone building that housed one of the first people's banks in the country, offering loans to residents in the predominantly Acadian farming community; its establishment heralded the development of the credit union movement in Canada | |
| Former Summerside Post Office[13] | 1887 (completed) | 1983 | Summerside 46.3933°N -63.7906°W | A stone post office with Gothic and Romanesque elements; representative of the small urban post offices erected by the Department of Public Works in smaller urban centres during Thomas Fuller's term as Chief Architect; current town hall | |
| Government House[14] | 1834 (completed) | 1971 | Charlottetown 46.2312°N -63.1362°W | The official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, it sits on a more extensive property called Fanningbank. It is a finely-proportioned frame structure of Canada in the neoclassical style | |
| Great George Street Historic District[15] | 1990 | Charlottetown 46.2338°N -63.1245°W | A wide six-block street that begins at the waterfront and ends at Province House; the view up Great George Street from Peake's Quay contains many elements that the Fathers of Confederation would have experienced on their way to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864 | ||
| Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers[16] | 1732 (establishment) | 1933 | Brudenell 46.1819°N -62.5603°W | Jean Pierre Roma established a fishing and trading post on this site in 1732, which was destroyed by New Englanders in 1745 after the Siege of Louisbourg; symbolic of the French presence on Île Saint-Jean (later named Prince Edward Island) | |
| Kensington Railway Station[17] | 1904 (completed) | 1976 | Kensington 46.4378°N -63.6389°W | A fieldstone station with a high gable roof and sheltered platforms, originally built for the Prince Edward Island Railway; commemorates development of the railways in the Maritimes and a rare surviving example of a railway station in Prince Edward Island | |
| L.M. Montgomery's Cavendish[18] | 2004 | Cavendish 46.4877°N -63.3818°W | A cultural landscape near Cavendish that author Lucy Maud Montgomery made famous in her Anne of Green Gables books | ||
| Province House[19] | 1847 (completed) | 1966 | Charlottetown 46.2349°N -63.1261°W | A neoclassical legislative building that served as the site of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864, the first meeting that led to Canadian Confederation | |
| Shaw's Hotel[20] | 1860 (lodge completed) | 2003 | Brackley Beach 46.4239°N -63.1916°W | A two-and-a-half-storey main lodge, with two large barns and twenty-five cottages sitting on a 8ha site; operating as a tourist resort for more than 150 years, the site is evocative of the early years of tourism in Canada | |
| Skmaqn—Port-la-Joye—Fort Amherst[21] [22] | 1720 (established) | 1958 | Rocky Point 46.1972°N -63.1369°W | A hilly landscape on the west side of the channel entrance to Charlottetown harbour, with remnants of an 18th-century fort built by the French and later occupied by the British; the site was the seat of government and port of entry for settlers to Île Saint-Jean/Prince Edward Island | |
| St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic Basilica[23] | 1907 (completed) | 1990 | Charlottetown 46.2336°N -63.1254°W | St. Dunstan's is the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island and the mother church of the diocese; it was elevated to the status of Basilica in 1929; a noted example of the High Victorian Gothic Revival style in Canada | |
| Strathgartney Homestead | 1861 (completed) | 1996 | Bonshaw 46.2009°N -63.3547°W | A 13ha remnant of the 200ha estate of Robert Bruce Stewart, a nineteenth-century landowner; illustrative of the land tenure system that dominated Prince Edward Island until the passage of the Land Purchase Act of 1875 | |
| Tryon United Church[24] | 1881 (completed) | 1990 | Tryon 46.2413°N -63.502°W | A wooden church designed for a Methodist congregation by William Critchlow Harris; now a United Church, it is an exceptional example of the Gothic Revival style in Canadian architecture. | |