Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Bouctouche: 2 historic places on Canada’s heritage registers
Per resident Bouctouche outdoes 97% of Canadian towns, with 7.5 for every 10,000 people. The earliest construction date, 1867, belongs to Saint Lawrence Anglican Church. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from 1902, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding. On the list: 2 provincial or municipal listings.
Heritage Bouctouche
Among Bouctouche’s designated places, only Musée de Kent has a photo 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.
Back in time: Bouctouche, 1893–1930
2 old photographs of the town and the oldest view of one of its historic places, in date order. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.
1893
1924
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 Bouctouche’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
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.
2 more places Bouctouche or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Start with Saint Lawrence Anglican Church and Musée de Kent. Each one opens its own page.
LocalWithin 50 km of Bouctouche, one top designation
The nearest is Pointe à Jérôme Front Range Lighthouse, 4 km away in Wellington. Free Meeting House, 42 km off, is the oldest: 1821. Among them are 16 provincial or municipal listings, 3 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 2 heritage lighthouses.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Pointe à Jérôme Front Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1916–1917 · 4 km away, in Wellington |
| Caissie Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1872–1873 · 23 km away, in Dundas |
| West Point LighthouseDesignated heritage place · 1876 · 31 km away, in O'Leary |
| Shediac railway stationLocal historic place · 31 km away, in Shediac |
| Collège Saint-LouisLocal historic place · 1874 · 36 km away, in Saint-Louis de Kent |
| Magnetic HillLocal historic place · 39 km away, in Moncton |
| Léopold-Taillon BuildingLocal historic place · 1948 · 41 km away, in Moncton |
| Sunny Brae RinkLocal historic place · 1920 · 41 km away, in Moncton |
| Gulf Fisheries CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1948–1949 · 42 km away, in Moncton |
| Free Meeting HouseNational Historic Site · 1821–1822 · 42 km away, in Moncton |
| Moncton MuseumLocal historic place · 1973 · 42 km away, in Moncton |
| The BendLocal historic place · 42 km away, in Moncton |
Bouctouche built the most from 1961 to 1980, 34% of today’s homes
19% of Bouctouche’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. From 2016 to 2021 Bouctouche added 3.2% of its homes, less than the typical town’s 4.1%. Before 1961: 17% of Bouctouche’s homes, near the usual 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Bouctouche’s people of the past, born 1846–1912
By Wikipedia’s reach, K. C. Irving leads, with 7 articles. Before 1914, 8 births here made the record. Most of them, 7 of 8, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. The longest life here was K. C. Irving’s, 93 years, ending in 1992.
Everyone born in Bouctouche → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Bouctouche has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,700 to 2,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Emerson-Franklin has more. The middle one has 0. 9 of them have nothing on the registers.
Bouctouche and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouctouche | 2,678 | 2 | 0 | 1867 |
| Wellington | 3,458 | 1 | 0 | 1916 |
| Saint Mary | 2,083 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Antoine | 1,880 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cocagne | 2,982 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Richibucto | 2,457 | 0 | 0 | — |
Bouctouche in brief
All told, Bouctouche has 2 historic places. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. K. C. Irving (1899), Gilbert Anselme Girouard (1846) and Hervé Michaud (1912) are the best known of its historic lives. Few of its homes are old, 17% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Bouctouche’s history
How many historic places does Bouctouche have on the registers?
2 historic places inside Bouctouche, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Bouctouche?
Saint Lawrence Anglican Church (Local historic place): the first construction date on its record is 1867.
Why might a heritage building in Bouctouche be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Bouctouche shows up only as a Wikidata number.
How old are the homes in Bouctouche?
Before 1961: 17% of its homes; 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).