Photo: Diablo2003 · Public domainBathurst’s past, on the record: 1 historic place
Bathurst’s entry is Sacred Heart Cathedral (1886), a local historic place. Measured against its size, Bathurst’s 0.8 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 77% of Canadian towns. Local registers add one more place, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds its number and little else.
Places to see in Bathurst
Bathurst’s one designated place, Sacred Heart Cathedral, is pictured here.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Bathurst as it looked, 1915 to 1930
4 old photographs of the town, from oldest to latest. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.
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1925
1930Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
Where Bathurst’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
On a provincial or local list in Bathurst: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
LocalNear Bathurst, within 50 km: one place of national rank
Count to 50 km and there are 7. The first one out is Village Historique Acadien, 46 km away in Bertrand. Oldest of them is Maison Hamilton (1852), 50 km off.
The 7 nearest, within 50 km
| Village Historique AcadienProvincial heritage place · 46 km away, in Bertrand |
| Église Saint-IsidoreProvincial heritage place · 1908 · 46 km away, in Saint-Isidore |
| Site du patrimoine de l'Église-de-Saint-BonaventureCited heritage site (Québec) · 48 km away, in Bonaventure |
| Maison René-LévesqueClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1905 · 49 km away, in New Carlisle |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, New Carlisle, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1947–1948 · 50 km away, in New Carlisle |
| Centre culturel et d’interprétation KempfferMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1868 · 50 km away, in New Carlisle |
| Maison HamiltonMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1852 · 50 km away, in New Carlisle |
New homes are rare in Bathurst: 1.7% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
More than half of Bathurst’s housing predates 1981. Homes from before 1961 make up 25% of Bathurst’s housing; the typical town has 18%. The busiest building years in Bathurst were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 42% of today’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born in Bathurst, 1847 to 1911
Before 1914, 11 births here made the record. The widest known is Joe De Grasse: 14 Wikipedia editions. Longest lived was Kenneth Joseph Burbridge, 89 years in all (2000). Of the 11, 10 were born in the decades after Confederation.
Everyone born in Bathurst → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Bathurst has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 13,200 to 13,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Glebe-Dows Lake and Durand have more. The typical town its size has 0. 12 of them have none.
Bathurst and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bathurst | 13,331 | 1 | 0 | 1886 |
| Bathurst | 4,840 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beresford | 4,389 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Nigadoo | 1,102 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beresford | 6,543 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Petit-Rocher | 2,019 | 0 | 0 | — |
Bathurst in brief
In Bathurst, 25% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are Joe De Grasse (1873), Sam De Grasse (1875) and James Hamet Dunn (1874).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
Questions about Bathurst’s history
How many historic places does Bathurst have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Bathurst, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Bathurst?
By its record, Sacred Heart Cathedral, from 1886 (Local historic place).
How old are the homes in Bathurst?
The 2021 Census dates 25% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Bathurst be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Bathurst is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).