List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Alberta

This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in the province of Alberta. There are 60 National Historic Sites designated in Alberta, 14 of which are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ).^[1][2] The first three sites in Alberta were designated in 1923 and are as follows: the site of rival trading posts Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton, the site of the Frog Lake Massacre and the site of the first outpost of the North-West Mounted Police in Western Canada at Fort Macleod.^[3]

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

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Site	Date(s)	Designated	Location	Description	Image
Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin [4]	1922 (completed)	1992	Abbot Pass 51°21′50.6″N 116°17′24.75″W / 51.364056°N 116.2902083°W	An alpine hut located at an elevation of 2925 metres in the Alberta Rockies, near the continental divide in Banff National Park, near its boundary with Yoho National Park in British Columbia
Áísínai'pi [5]		2004	Milk River 49°4′55″N 111°37′1″W / 49.08194°N 111.61694°W	Also known as Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, it serves as both a nature preserve and protection for a large number of aboriginal rock carvings and paintings
Athabasca Pass [6]	1811 (first documented by non-Aboriginal people)	1971	Jasper National Park 52°22′35″N 118°11′00″W / 52.37639°N 118.18333°W	A major point on the fur trade route between Rupert's Land and the Columbia District, used by the York Factory Express
Atlas No. 3 Coal Mine [7]	1936 (opened)	2001	Drumheller 51°19′43.07″N 112°28′57.04″W / 51.3286306°N 112.4825111°W	An exceptionally well-preserved coal-mining landscape
Banff Park Museum [8]	1903 (completed)	1985	Banff National Park 51°10′25.57″N 115°34′17.9″W / 51.1737694°N 115.571639°W	A rustic log-faced building set prominently within a landscaped park in the Banff townsite, containing early botanical and zoological exhibits from Banff National Park in early twentieth-century glass cases
Banff Springs Hotel [9]	1928 (completed)	1988	Banff National Park 51°09′52.2″N 115°33′47.7″W / 51.164500°N 115.563250°W	A former railway hotel constructed in Scottish Baronial style at the base of Sulphur Mountain, built to replace a wooden 1888 hotel which burned down in 1926
Bar U Ranch [10]	1882 (established)	1989	Longview 50°25′11″N 114°14′0″W / 50.41972°N 114.23333°W	A historic ranch in the Alberta foothills
Beaulieu [11]	1891 (completed)	1992	Calgary 51°02′26″N 114°04′42″W / 51.04043°N 114.07835°W	Known as Lougheed House, a mansion in Calgary's Beltline district originally built for Senator James Alexander Lougheed
Blackfoot Crossing [12]	1877 (treaty)	1925	Cluny 50°48′15″N 112°54′23″W / 50.80417°N 112.90639°W	A traditional meeting place on the Blackfoot reserve, where representations of the Crown and the Siksika, Northern Peigan, Kainai, Nakoda and Tsuu T'ina peoples met to sign Treaty 7 in 1877
British Block Cairn [13]	1400 CE (ca.)	1973	Canadian Forces Base Suffield 50°36′30.24″N 110°35′32.28″W / 50.6084000°N 110.5923000°W	A large boulder cairn surrounded by a ring of stones, an important example of Niitsitapi cultural heritage
Brooks Aqueduct [14]	1914 (completed)	1983	Brooks 50°31′44.04″N 111°51′18″W / 50.5289000°N 111.85500°W	A landmark irrigation project built by the Canadian Pacific Railway, spanning a 3.2 kilometer valley and irrigating a section of south-eastern Alberta
Calgary City Hall [15]	1911 (completed)	1984	Calgary 51°2′46″N 114°3′26″W / 51.04611°N 114.05722°W	A four-storey sandstone building with central clock tower, designed in the Romanesque Revival style and serving as the focal point of Calgary's city hall complex
Cave and Basin [16]	1859 (first documented by non-Aboriginal people)	1981	Banff National Park 51°10′12″N 115°35′20.76″W / 51.17000°N 115.5891000°W	The site of natural thermal mineral springs around which Canada's first national park, Banff National Park, was established
Coleman [17]	1903 (establishment of townsite)	2001	Crowsnest Pass (municipality) 49°38′7″N 114°30′11″W / 49.63528°N 114.50306°W	A preserved coal-mining landscape in one of the most important coal producing centres in the Crowsnest Pass, the greatest coalfield in Alberta and southeastern British Columbia
Earthlodge Village[18]	1740 (c.)	1972	Gleichen 50°47′4″N 112°51′25″W / 50.78444°N 112.85694°W	Earthwork defensive fortifications, unique in Canada, constructed by an unidentified people
First Oil Well in Western Canada [19]	1902	1965	Waterton Lakes National Park 49°4′15.53″N 113°59′12.37″W / 49.0709806°N 113.9867694°W	First commercially productive oil well in Western Canada
Fort Assiniboine [20]	1823 (fort established)	1935	Woodlands County 54°20′1″N 114°46′19″W / 54.33361°N 114.77194°W	A trading post established by the Hudson's Bay Company which served as a stopping point along the Klondike Trail
Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton [21][22]	1795 (Fort Augustus built), 1796 (first Fort Edmonton built)	1923	Fort Saskatchewan 53°42′58″N 113°13′15″W / 53.71611°N 113.22083°W	The site of rival trading posts established by the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, described as being a "musket-shot" apart
Fort Calgary [23]	1875 (established)	1925	Calgary 51°2′43″N 114°2′45″W / 51.04528°N 114.04583°W	A fort established by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary
Fort Chipewyan [24]	1788 (established)	1930	Wood Buffalo 58°42′44″N 111°08′54″W / 58.71222°N 111.14833°W	One of the oldest European settlements in Alberta, established by the North West Company when it built a trading post there in 1788
Fort Dunvegan [25]	1805 (established)	1947	Dunvegan 55°55′25″N 118°35′40″W / 55.92361°N 118.59444°W	Site of a trading post established by the North West Company
Fort Edmonton III [26]	1830 (established)	1959	Edmonton 53°32′1.37″N 113°30′23.51″W / 53.5337139°N 113.5065306°W	The final Hudson's Bay Company fort to bear the "Fort Edmonton" name, evolved into present-day Edmonton; reconstructed commencing in 1969
Fort Fork [27]	1792 (established)	1928	Peace River 56°8′15″N 117°28′30″W / 56.13750°N 117.47500°W	Starting point of Alexander MacKenzie's route to Pacific, 1793
Fort Macleod [28]	1874 (established)	1923	Fort Macleod 49°43′32.1″N 113°23′51.1″W / 49.725583°N 113.397528°W	A fort established in 1874 on an island on the Oldman River, it was the first outpost of the North-West Mounted Police in Western Canada, and served as NWMP headquarters between 1874 and 1878
Fort Vermilion [29]	1788 (first fort established), 1828 (fort moved), 1908 (Old Bay House completed)	1968	Fort Vermilion 58°23′4″N 116°2′26″W / 58.38444°N 116.04056°W	The "Old Bay House" is the only Hudson’s Bay Company factor’s house on its original location in Alberta, the last remaining structure of the fort that evolved into the present-day hamlet of Fort Vermilion
Fort Whoop-Up [30][31]	1869 (established)	1963	Lethbridge 49°41′31″N 112°51′24″W / 49.69194°N 112.85667°W	Originally named Fort Hamilton, the Fort Whoop-Up trading post became the centre of the illegal whisky trade in the region, contributing to the formation of the North-West Mounted Police in 1874 to police Canada's western territories
Frog Lake [32]	1885 (uprising)	1923	Frog Lake 53°49′52″N 110°21′31″W / 53.831186°N 110.358696°W	Site of the Frog Lake Massacre, a Cree uprising during the North-West Rebellion prompted by what seemed to be unfair treaties by the Canadian government and the dwindling buffalo population
Government House in Edmonton, Alberta [33]	1911 (completed)	2012	Edmonton 53°32′29.88″N 113°32′38.1″W / 53.5416333°N 113.543917°W	Served as official residence of Alberta's first six Lieutenant Governors; its imposing exterior, prominent location and distinctive architecture symbolize Alberta's new provincial status and Edmonton’s new role as capital in the early 20th century
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump [34]	3500 BCE (ca.) (usage began), 1880s (first documented by non-Aboriginal people)	1968	Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 49°42′0″N 113°38′0″W / 49.70000°N 113.63333°W	A buffalo jump located where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains begin to rise from the prairie, used for 5,500 years by the indigenous peoples of the plains to kill buffalo by driving them off the 11 metre high cliff (A UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of Technology [35]	1922 (completed)	1987	Calgary 51°03′43″N 114°05′29″W / 51.06194°N 114.09139°W	A three-storey educational building prominently situated on the brow of the Bow River valley, constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style, representative of the growth of post-secondary educational institutions in Canada in the early twentieth century
Howse Pass [36]	1807 (first European exploration)	1978	Blaeberry River and Banff National Park 51°48′53.53″N 116°46′20.31″W / 51.8148694°N 116.7723083°W	An early nineteenth-century transportation route through the Canadian Rockies
Jasper House [37]	1830 (completed)	1924	Jasper National Park 53°8′48.51″N 117°59′3.1″W / 53.1468083°N 117.984194°W	Archaeological remains of a fur trade post that served as a major destination for travellers using the Athabasca and the Yellowhead passes and the First Nations route through the Smoky River Pass.
Jasper Park Information Centrev [38]	1914 (completed)	1992	Jasper National Park 52°52′38.32″N 118°4′51.01″W / 52.8773111°N 118.0808361°W	A rustic fieldstone park building, symbolic of early architecture within Canada's national parks
Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage [39]	1889 (established)	1984	Lac Ste. Anne County 53°42′40″N 114°23′49″W / 53.71111°N 114.39694°W	First Roman Catholic mission to be established by the renowned priest, Albert Lacombe
Leduc-Woodbend Oilfield [40]	1946 (established)	1990	Leduc 53°19′46.45″N 113°43′31.01″W / 53.3295694°N 113.7252806°W	Site of a major crude oil discovery in Alberta, which led to the post-World War II boom in petroleum exploration and development in Western Canada
Maligne Lake Chalet and Guest House[41]	1935 (built)	2015	Jasper National Park 52°43′47″N 117°38′23″W / 52.729652°N 117.639632°W	Rustic lodge evokes early mountain tourism and the role of guides, outfitters and railroads in the development of national parks
Medalta Potteries [42]	1912 (established)	1985	Medicine Hat 50°1′55″N 110°38′58″W / 50.03194°N 110.64944°W	Early twentieth century beehive kilns and manufacturing buildings; the first western Canadian manufacturer to ship goods east of the Great Lakes
Medicine Hat Clay Industries [43]		1999	Medicine Hat 50°1′53″N 110°39′3″W / 50.03139°N 110.65083°W	A cultural landscape illustrating the factors (local clay beds, access to railway transportation, vast supplies of natural gas to fire the kilns) that led to Medicine Hat’s emergence as the largest supplier of clay products west of Ontario
Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall [44]	1918 (completed)	1989	Calgary 51°02′45″N 114°05′20″W / 51.04583°N 114.08889°W	A large-scale drill hall, the scale and prominent location of which exemplify the national pride that greeted Canada's strong performance in the South African War and the First World War
Nordegg [45]	1911 (mine established)	2001	Nordegg 52°28′30″N 116°4′24″W / 52.47500°N 116.07333°W	An important coal mining landscape, with many mining and related resources still existing on site
Notre Dame des Victoires / Lac La Biche Mission [46]	1853 (established)	1989	Lac La Biche 54°49′15″N 112°5′44″W / 54.82083°N 112.09556°W	An important Roman Catholic mission, established by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, which served as the hub of various portage routes
Old Women's Buffalo Jump [47]		1960	Cayley	An aboriginal bison drive in use for more than 1500 years
Palace Theatre [48]	1921 (completed)	1996	Calgary	A movie palace designed by internationally renowned theatre architect C. Howard Crane, and one of four surviving movie theatres in Canada built by the Allen Chain
Prince of Wales Hotel [49]	1927 (completed)	1992	Waterton Lakes National Park 49°03′32″N 113°54′13″W / 49.05889°N 113.90361°W	A landmark hotel constructed in the rustic-design style, representing the golden age of railway resort development in Canada's national parks
Rocky Mountain House [50]	1799 (established)	1926	Rocky Mountain House, Alberta 52°21′41″N 114°58′14″W / 52.361495°N 114.970471°W	An archaeological site that contains the remains of several early 19th-century fur trade forts known by the names of Rocky Mountain House (established by the North West Company) and Acton House (established by the Hudson's Bay Company)
Rundle's Mission [51]	1847 (established)	1963	Pigeon Lake 53°01′30″N 114°04′01″W / 53.025°N 114.067°W	The site of the first Protestant mission in the Canadian Prairies
Skoki Ski Lodge [52]	1936 (completed)	1992	Banff National Park 51°31′23″N 116°04′35″W / 51.52306°N 116.07639°W	A rustic ski lodge resort, representing the early visual identity of Canada's mountain parks and of the early days of tourism in Banff National Park
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church [53]	1914 (completed)	1990	Medicine Hat 50°2′43″N 110°40′50″W / 50.04528°N 110.68056°W	A noted example of Gothic Revival architecture in Alberta
Stephen Avenue [54]	1880 (established)	2002	Calgary 51°02′44″N 114°03′47″W / 51.0456°N 114.0630°W	A late-nineteenth-century retail streetscape in downtown Calgary
Stirling Agricultural Village [55]	1899 (established)	1997	Stirling	The best surviving example of a Mormon agricultural village in Canada, following the Plat of Zion model
Suffield Tipi Rings [56]		1973	Cypress County	Various sets of archaeological remains relating to the cultural occupations by the Niitsitapi, featuring tipi rings, medicine wheels and other rock arrangements
Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station [57]	1957 (completed)	1982	Banff National Park 51°07′25″N 115°33′20″W / 51.12361°N 115.55556°W	Canada’s most important cosmic ray observatory from the 1950s
Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [58]	1923 (completed)	1992	Cardston	A monumental modern temple in historic Mormon centre
Territorial Court House [59]	1904 (completed)	1980	Fort Macleod	The oldest court house in Alberta and one of the few buildings surviving from the period of Territorial administration of the Canadian Prairies
Treaty Nº 7 Signing Site [60]	1877 (treaty signed)	1925	Wheatland County	The site where representatives of the Siksika, Pekuni, Kainai, Nakoda and Tsuu T’ina peoples met with representatives of the Crown to sign Treaty No. 7 in September 1877
Turner Valley Gas Plant [61]	1914 (established)	1995	Turner Valley	A petroleum industrial complex comprising 22 metal buildings and related infrastructure, and the site of two early gas wells that established the Turner Valley as the most important oil field in Alberta
Turner Valley Oilfield [62]	1914 (established)	1990	Turner Valley	The first major oil field in Alberta
Victoria Settlement [63]	1863 (established)	2001	Smoky Lake	A cultural landscape illustrating major themes in the development of the Canadian Prairies, including the rise of the fur trade, the establishment of the Métis river lot system, the arrival of missions, prairie agricultural development and the arrival of eastern European immigrants
Wetaskiwin Court House [64]	1909 (completed)	1980	Wetaskiwin	A court house symbolic of the rapid growth of the justice system in Alberta, typifying court house design during this formative period in the growth of western Canada
Yellowhead Pass [65]		1971	Jasper National Park 52°53′33″N 118°27′50″W / 52.89250°N 118.46389°W	An important transportation route through the Canadian Rockies

See also

• History of Alberta
• Provincial historic sites of Alberta

References

1. "Alberta - National Historic Sites of Canada". Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
2. The National Historic Sites of Canada administered by Parks Canada are as follows: Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin, Athabasca Pass, Banff Park Museum, Bar U Ranch, Cave and Basin, First Oil Well in Western Canada, Frog Lake, Howse Pass, Jasper House, Jasper Park Information Centre, Rocky Mountain House, Skoki Ski Lodge, Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station, and Yellowhead Pass. See Alberta - National Historic Sites of Canada administered by Parks Canada
3. Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada, Parks Canada
4. Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
5. Áísínai'pi. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
6. Athabasca Pass. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
7. Atlas No. 3 Coal Mine. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
8. Banff Park Museum. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
9. Banff Springs Hotel. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
10. Bar U Ranch. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
11. Beaulieu. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
12. Blackfoot Crossing. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada.
13. British Block Cairn. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
14. Brooks Aqueduct. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
15. Calgary City Hall. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
16. Cave and Basin. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
17. Coleman. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
18. Earthlodge Village. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
19. First Oil Well in Western Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
20. Fort Assiniboine. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
21. Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
22. "Fort Edmonton and Fort Augustus". Alberta Online Encyclopedia. Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
23. Fort Calgary. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
24. Fort Chipewan. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
25. Fort Dunvegan. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
26. Fort Edmonton III. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada.
27. Fort Fork. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
28. Fort Macleod. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
29. Fort Vermilion. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
30. History, Fort Whoop-up National Historic Site - Founded by Scoundrels
31. Fort Whoop-Up. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
32. Frog Lake. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
33. Government House in Edmonton, Alberta. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
34. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada.
35. Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
36. Howse Pass. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
37. Jasper House. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
38. Jasper Park Information Centre. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
39. Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
40. Leduc-Woodbend Oilfield. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
41. Parks Canada news release, March 17, 2015
42. Medalta Potteries. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
43. Medicine Hat Clay Industries. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
44. Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
45. Nordegg. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
46. Notre Dame des Victoires / Lac La Biche Mission. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
47. Old Women's Buffalo Jump. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada.
48. Palace Theatre. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
49. Prince of Wales Hotel. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
50. Rocky Mountain House. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
51. Rundle's Mission. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
52. Skoki Ski Lodge. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
53. St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
54. Stephen Avenue. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
55. Stirling Agricultural Village. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
56. Suffield Tipi Rings. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
57. Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
58. Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
59. Territorial Court House. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
60. Treaty No. 7 Signing Site. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
61. Turner Valley Gas Plant. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
62. Turner Valley Oilfield. Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. Parks Canada.
63. Victoria Settlement. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
64. Wetaskiwin Court House. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
65. Yellowhead Pass. Canadian Register of Historic Places.