This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in Hamilton, Ontario. There are 15 National Historic Sites designated in Hamilton,^[1] of which one (HMCS Haida) is administered by Parks Canada.^[2] Burlington Heights was designated in 1929 and was the first site designated within what are now the boundaries of Hamilton.

National Historic Sites located elsewhere in Ontario are listed at List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Ontario.

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 [edit]

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Site	Date(s)	Designated	Location	Description	Image
Battle of Stoney Creek [3]	1813 (battle)	1960	Stoney Creek 43°13′02″N 79°45′58″W / 43.217271°N 79.766244°W / 43.217271; -79.766244 (Battle of Stoney Creek)	The site of a British victory that marked a turning point in the War of 1812, representing the most advanced position achieved by American forces in the Niagara campaign
Burlington Heights [4][5]	1813-14 (wartime activities)	1929	Hamilton 43°16′14″N 79°53′10″W / 43.27056°N 79.88611°W / 43.27056; -79.88611 (Burlington Heights)	An assembly point and supply depot for the defence of the Niagara Peninsula and support of the navy on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812
Dundurn Castle [6][7]	1835 (completed)	1984	Hamilton 43°16′10″N 79°53′05″W / 43.269481°N 79.884649°W / 43.269481; -79.884649 (Dundurn Castle)	Picturesque-style villa of magnate Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet
Erland Lee (Museum) Home [8][9]	1808 (completed)	2002	Hamilton 43°12′24″N 79°43′18″W / 43.20667°N 79.72167°W / 43.20667; -79.72167 (Erland Lee (Museum) Home)	A Carpenter Gothic farmhouse recognized as the birthplace of an important national and international women's movement, where the constitution of the first Women’s Institute was drafted
Former Hamilton Customs House [10][11]	1860 (completed)	1990	Hamilton 43°15′58.91″N 79°52′1.97″W / 43.2663639°N 79.8672139°W / 43.2663639; -79.8672139 (Former Hamilton Customs House)	A former customs house now serving as the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre; a noted example of Italianate architecture, which was popular in Canada from the 1840s to the 1870s
Former Hamilton Railway Station (Canadian National) [12][13]	1931 (completed)	2000	Hamilton 43°15′58.91″N 79°52′1.97″W / 43.2663639°N 79.8672139°W / 43.2663639; -79.8672139 (Former Hamilton Railway Station (Canadian National))	Built by Canadian National Railway, the railway station is a rare surviving example of an interwar station built according to the tenets of the City Beautiful movement; it served as an important immigration gateway after the Second World War
Griffin House [14][15]	1827 (completed)	2008	Hamilton 43°14′9.42″N 80°0′11.26″W / 43.2359500°N 80.0031278°W / 43.2359500; -80.0031278 (Griffin House)	A rare surviving example of a four-room house typical in Upper Canada in the early 19th century; was owned by Enerals Griffin, a Black immigrant from Virginia who settled here in 1834, and the house is associated with Black settlement in British North America and the Underground Railroad
Hamilton Waterworks [16][17]	1859 (completed)	1977	Hamilton 43°15′22.45″N 79°46′14.51″W / 43.2562361°N 79.7706972°W / 43.2562361; -79.7706972 (Hamilton Waterworks)	Built to deliver large quantities of clean water for safe drinking and fire control to rapidly expanding Hamilton, the waterworks is a rare surviving example of a Victorian industrial complex that is largely architecturally and functionally intact
HMCS Haida [18][19]	1942 (constructed)	1984	Hamilton 43°16′31″N 79°51′19″W / 43.27531°N 79.85538°W / 43.27531; -79.85538 (HMCS Haida)	Last of the World War II Tribal-class destroyers; moored and open to the public as a museum ship at Hamilton Harbour
John Weir Foote Armoury [20][21]	1888 (completed)	1989	Hamilton 43°15′42.76″N 79°51′58.42″W / 43.2618778°N 79.8662278°W / 43.2618778; -79.8662278 (John Weir Foote Armoury)	Named after John Weir Foote, the north section of the building is representative of the second evolutionary stage in drill hall construction in Canada (in the 1870s to 1890s)
McQuesten House / Whitehern [22][23]	1848 (completed)	1962	Hamilton 43°15′17″N 79°52′20″W / 43.2546°N 79.8721°W / 43.2546; -79.8721 (McQuesten House / Whitehern)	The two-storey neoclassical home of Thomas McQuesten, now serving as a museum; a superior and intact example of mid-19th-century residential architecture in Ontario
Royal Botanical Gardens [24][25][26]	1920s (established)	1993	Hamilton 43°17′27.54″N 79°52′30.71″W / 43.2909833°N 79.8751972°W / 43.2909833; -79.8751972 (Royal Botanical Gardens)	Comprising 1,100 hectares (2,700 acres) clustered around Burlington Bay, it is one of Canada’s most important botanical gardens, and is the international registration authority for cultivar names of lilacs; named Canada’s "National Focal Point" for plant conservation targets under the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity
Sandyford Place [27][28]	1856 (completed)	1975	Hamilton 43°15′6.98″N 79°52′23.72″W / 43.2519389°N 79.8732556°W / 43.2519389; -79.8732556 (Sandyford Place)	A row of stone terrace houses, typical of the construction style in Hamilton at a time when Scottish settlers sought to recreate the stone terraces of Scottish towns; a good example of the housing erected for merchants in the mid-19th century
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church / Former St. Andrew's Church [29][30]	1857 (completed)	1990	Hamilton 43°15′17″N 79°52′13″W / 43.254761°N 79.870282°W / 43.254761; -79.870282 (St. Paul's Presbyterian Church / Former St. Andrew's Church)	An excellent representative example of the Gothic Revival style in a small, urban parish church
Victoria Hall [31][32]	1888 (completed)	1995	Hamilton 43°15′20″N 79°52′02″W / 43.255691°N 79.867267°W / 43.255691; -79.867267 (Victoria Hall)	A three-and-a-half-storey, commercial building with a hand-made, galvanized sheet-metal façade on the front of its upper storeys; a very rare example of an in-situ, hand-made, sheet-metal façade in Canada, and one of the most architecturally accomplished of the surviving sheet metal façades in the country

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