Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
The Old Place
Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1864
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Architect/designer
- William Critchlow Harris
- Notice of registration date
- 17 March 1993
- Civic address
- 9752 Main Street
- Community
- Canning
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.15801, -64.42589
- File number
- Prov_file_172
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its historical association with Sir Frederick Borden, physician, Member of Parliament and Minister of Militia and Defence, and because it is one of the finest examples of the residential work of the architect, William Critchlow Harris.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of The Old Place include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood construction;
- round, squat tower, with steeply pitched, conical roof;
- corner dormers;
- broad, shallow arched window openings;
- wood shingle cladding;
- large hall, from which the stairway rises;
- large, rustic stone fireplace, with inglenook adjacent;
- prominent location on a main street surrounded by mature trees.
Nearby in the register
- Loomer-Goodwin Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Jonathan Shearman House (formerly Eaton House)residence3 mi
- Canard Burial Groundscemetery3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.