Heritage Lighthouse · 1872–1873Caissie Point Lighthouse89 Lighthouse Drive
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain1historic place on the registers
History of Dundas · Canada’s heritage registers
Canada’s registers list 1 historic place in Dundas
Caissie Point Lighthouse, from 1872, is Dundas’s heritage lighthouse. Dundas has 2.1 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 86% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
2.1 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1872
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
12%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Dundas’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Other federal designations
One more federal designation in Dundas
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Leave Dundas and the first historic place is Shediac railway station, 11 km away
4 places lie within 25 km. Saint Lawrence Anglican Church, 20 km off, is the oldest: 1867. Their towns number 3: Bouctouche, Shediac and Wellington first.
The 4 nearest, within 25 km
| Shediac railway stationLocal historic place · 11 km away, in Shediac |
| Saint Lawrence Anglican ChurchLocal historic place · 1867 · 20 km away, in Bouctouche |
| Pointe à Jérôme Front Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1916–1917 · 20 km away, in Wellington |
| Musée de KentProvincial heritage place · 20 km away, in Bouctouche |
Homes by age
Pre-1961 homes are scarce in Dundas: 12%, against a usual 18%
19% of Dundas’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 40% of Dundas’s homes. New building in Dundas runs at the usual pace: 3.7% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%.
12%
Before 1961
40%
1961–80
25%
1981–2000
19%
2001–15
3.7%
2016–21
DundasTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Dundas has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,700 to 4,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Dundas1
Only Château-Richer, Guysborough and Shippagan have more. The middle one has 0. 12 of them have none.
Neighbours
Dundas and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundas | 4,733 | 1 | 0 | 1872 |
| Cocagne | 2,982 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Shediac | 5,699 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Shediac | 9,849 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Antoine | 1,880 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Dundas in brief
Dundas has 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 3 have more historic places. Its housing is young: only 12% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, its designation dates from 2022.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
Questions about Dundas’s history
How many historic places does Dundas have on the registers?
1 historic place in Dundas, from Canada’s heritage registers.
What is the oldest building in Dundas?
Caissie Point Lighthouse, a Heritage Lighthouse, begun in 1872.
How old are the homes in Dundas?
Before 1961: 12% 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).