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Italianate and Gothic Revival mix at Toronto's Mary Perram House (1876), a National Register property.

Romanesque entryway to the Rupert Simpson House (1899) in Toronto, listed on the National Register.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places is an online, searchable database that includes listings of historic places important to communities, cities, provinces, territories, and the nation. Also called the National Register of Historic Places, it is part of the Historic Places Initiative, a national program through which local, provincial, territorial and federal governments enable people to learn about, value, safeguard and enjoy the country's historic places.

The National Register does not connote national historic significance, though several National Historic Sites are listed. Rather, it is a nationwide register of properties, many of which are of local significance.

Administered by Parks Canada, provinicial, territorial and civic governments contribute listings to the National Register through a nomination process. As such, it is a flexible compendium of sites and structures which have been recognized as historic through any one of several programs. Evaluation of a site is left to the these authorities, but the Register includes background information prepared by them, including references to the legal authority used for historic designation. Administrators say the Register is flexible enough to work with the range of heritage programs across the country, while being uniform enough to make searching for recognized historic places possible. ^[1] Currently, the Register holds ca. 3,000 listings, with a goal of including the roughly 17,000 historic sites across the country.

A National Register listing does not put any additional legal constraints on property owners. Listing recognizes and celebrates the importance of a historic place to its community, province or territory, or to the nation. The register does not impose its own criteria but bases listing on federal, provincial, territorial or local designations of historic places, "a reflection of the community-based approach to heritage conservation in Canada." ^[2]

• Historic Preservation
• List of Canadian national parks
• List of national historic sites of Canada
• National landmark
• Pingo National Landmark
• National Register of Historic Places of the United States
• List of heritage registers

• Canada's Historic Places The Canadian Register of Historic Places
• Newfoundland and Labrador's Provincial Register of Historic Places

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