Community Heritage Register

The Town of Ladysmith takes pride in preserving its history and heritage charm.

To safeguard heritage, the Town established a Community Heritage Register, which ensures that the community’s historic sites are officially documented on the British Columbia Register of Historic Places (BCRHP), the province’s authoritative list of locations formally recognized for their heritage significance by local or provincial governments.

Properties listed on the BCRHP may also be included on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP).

To date, there are more than 30 properties recognized as historic and listed on the Town’s Community Heritage Register. Many of the buildings on the list were transported to Ladysmith from Nanaimo at the turn of the last century.

Below is the full list of buildings and properties on the Ladysmith Community Heritage Register:

Name Address
 1st Avenue, West Side  Between Roberts and High Streets
 341 1st Avenue Building  341 1st Avenue
 516 1st Avenue Building  516 1st Avenue
 534 1st Avenue Building  534 1st Avenue
 Agricultural (Aggie) Hall and Sports Field  1110 1st Avenue
 Bayview Apartment Building  110 Esplanade
 Coburn/Verchere House  641 3rd Avenue
 Comox Logging and Railway Shops Building  610 Oyster Bay Drive
 Convent School  210 Buller Street
 Dragon City Restaurant Sign  322 Esplanade
 Eagles Hall  921 1st Avenue
 Island Hotel  440 1st Avenue
 Jessup's Drug Store  18 High Street
 Johnson's Shoes Building  528 1st Avenue
 Jones Hotel  12 Gatacre Street
 Knight's Clock  1st Avenue
 Ladysmith Arboretum  Transfer Beach Boulevard
 Ladysmith Cemetery  320 Christie Road
 Ladysmith Hotel  431 1st Avenue
 Ladysmith Railway Station  E&N Railway
 Ladysmith Town Hall  410 Esplanade
 Ladysmith Trading Company  410 1st Avenue
 Mainstreet Building  512 1st Avenue
 Masonic Hall  26 Gatacre Street
 Music Hall  18 Roberts Street
 Nicholson Block  436 1st Avenue
 Nicholson House  421 1st Avenue
 Old Telephone Office Building  422 Esplanade
 Small Shop  530 1st Avenue
 St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church  314 Buller Street
 Temperance Hotel  32 High Street
 The Old Post Office  340 Esplanade
 Traveller’s Hotel  422 1st Avenue