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History of Grand Manan · Canada’s heritage registers
Grand Manan has 3 historic places on the registers, one in the top tier
The list takes in a heritage lighthouse and a provincial or municipal listing. Scaled to its population Grand Manan’s record is long: 11 per 10,000 residents, more than 98% of Canadian towns. Homes from before 1961 make up 35% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town. The earliest construction date, 1840, belongs to St. Paul's Anglican Church.
Historic places
3
11 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1840
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
35%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Heritage Grand Manan through 3 photographs
All of Grand Manan’s designated places are pictured. The set opens with Seal Cove Smoked Herring Stands and Long Eddy Point Lighthouse.
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.
The map
Where Grand Manan’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsOther federal designationsProvincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 3, by tier
1 Highest designations1 Other federal designations1 Provincial and local listings
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.
Highest designations
One place in Grand Manan with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Grand Manan
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
FedHeritage Lighthouse · 1966–1967Long Eddy Point Lighthouse438 Whistle RoadPhoto: HazelAB · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Grand Manan: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
LocalHomes by age
Little new building in Grand Manan: 2.1% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Count back from today and half of Grand Manan’s homes are older than 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Grand Manan 22% of its homes, near the usual 27%. 27% of Grand Manan’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to the typical town’s 23%.
35%
Before 1961
22%
1961–80
27%
1981–2000
14%
2001–15
2.1%
2016–21
Grand MananTypical 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
Grand Manan has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,600 to 2,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Grand Manan3
The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
Grand Manan in brief
Older stock first: 35% of homes in Grand Manan were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, led by Seal Cove Smoked Herring Stands. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: the list grew between 1995 and 2016.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
Questions about Grand Manan’s history
How old are the homes in Grand Manan?
Before 1961: 35% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Grand Manan have the highest designation?
Seal Cove Smoked Herring Stands.
What is the oldest building in Grand Manan?
St. Paul's Anglican Church (Local historic place): the first construction date on its record is 1840.
Why might a heritage building in Grand Manan be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 6 further listings in Grand Manan show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).