Photo: ...some guy · CC BY 2.0The heritage near Alnwick: 10 places in a 50 km radius
From Alnwick, look 36 km away, to Miramichi, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Just beyond the boundary, the registers place one more.
3 places of the highest rank within 50 km of Alnwick
Their towns number 5: Miramichi, Hardwicke and Newcastle first. MacDonald Farm in Newcastle is the nearest, 23 km away. Within 50 km there are 10 in all.
The 10 nearest, within 50 km
| MacDonald FarmProvincial heritage place · 23 km away, in Newcastle |
| Escuminac Disaster MemorialProvincial heritage place · 27 km away, in Hardwicke |
| Middle IslandProvincial heritage place · 32 km away, in Miramichi |
| Lighttower; Point EscuminacRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1965–1966 · 33 km away, in Hardwicke |
| Église Saint-IsidoreProvincial heritage place · 1908 · 34 km away, in Saint-Isidore |
| St. Michael's BasilicaLocal historic place · 1922 · 35 km away, in Miramichi |
| Marine HospitalNational Historic Site · 1830–1832 · 37 km away, in Miramichi |
| Beaubears Island ShipbuildingNational Historic Site · 1790–1791 · 44 km away, in Miramichi |
| BoishébertNational Historic Site · 1756–1760 · 45 km away, in Miramichi |
| The Enclosure Provincial ParkProvincial heritage place · 46 km away, in Southesk |
Just outside Alnwick: 1
| Girouard Shipwreck SiteProvincial heritage place · 2.8 km outside the town |
Within 50 km of Alnwick, the record goes back to 1756
Reaching 50 km out from Alnwick: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
6 places within 50 km carry a construction date. 3 go back before 1867. Oldest of all: Boishébert, Miramichi, 1756.
Alnwick keeps more old homes than most towns: 28% from before 1961, against 18%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 9.6% of Alnwick’s, against 15% in the typical town. New building has been slow in Alnwick: 2.5% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. More of Alnwick’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 31%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Alnwick compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,700 to 3,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only East Hawkesbury and Georgian Bay have more. Their median is 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Alnwick and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alnwick | 3,767 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Esgenoôpetitj 14 | 1,326 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Neguac | 1,733 | 0 | 0 | — |
Alnwick in brief
Of the homes standing in Alnwick, 28% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0. The rest is about typical: its past has one life on the record, William Stafford Anderson (1884).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
Questions about Alnwick’s history
How many historic places does Alnwick have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Alnwick; MacDonald Farm, in Newcastle, is 23 km away.
How old are the homes in Alnwick?
28% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).