Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0Heritage within reach of Hampton: 28 places, 50 km or closer
The nearest town to Hampton with a top designation is Quispamsis, 16 km away. 2 people on record were born in Hampton before 1914, William Herman Rulofson the earliest.
Hampton’s surroundings: 28 historic places within 50 km
Among them are 16 National Historic Sites, 6 provincial or municipal listings and 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. At 12 km, Trinity Church and Rectory in Kingston is the closest. The record reaches back to 1631 with Fort La Tour, 34 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Trinity Church and RectoryNational Historic Site · 1787–1790 · 12 km away, in Kingston |
| St. Luke's Anglican ChurchNational Historic Site · 1833–1834 · 15 km away, in Quispamsis |
| Rothesay Railway Station (European and North American)National Historic Site · 1858–1861 · 20 km away, in Rothesay |
| Cathedral of the Immaculate ConceptionLocal historic place · 1865 · 33 km away, in Saint John |
| Former Intercolonial Railway Station, Sussex, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1915 · 33 km away, in Sussex |
| St. John's Anglican Church / Stone ChurchNational Historic Site · 1823–1827 · 33 km away, in Saint John |
| Saint John County Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1826–1830 · 33 km away, in Saint John |
| Number 2 Mechanics' Volunteer Company Engine HouseNational Historic Site · 1840–1842 · 33 km away, in Saint John |
| Loyalist HouseNational Historic Site · 1810–1818 · 33 km away, in Saint John |
| Imperial / Bi-Capitol TheatreNational Historic Site · 1912–1924 · 33 km away, in Saint John |
| Saint John City MarketNational Historic Site · 1874–1877 · 33 km away, in Saint John |
| Admiral Beatty HotelLocal historic place · 33 km away, in Saint John |
Near Hampton, within 50 km: built places from 1631 on
Places as far as 50 km from Hampton, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Fort La Tour, in Saint John, goes back furthest, to 1631. 27 dated places within 50 km make up the record. 13 predate Confederation.
Hampton built the most from 1961 to 1980, 31% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Hampton’s homes are older than 2001. 22% of Hampton’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. From 2016 on, Hampton built 4.9% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Hampton and its neighbours
Hampton in brief
Before 1961: 18% of Hampton’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed; and John Peters Humphrey (1905) and William Herman Rulofson (1826) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- 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.
- 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 tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
Questions about Hampton’s history
How many historic places does Hampton have on the registers?
Not within Hampton. Its nearest is a top designation: Trinity Church and Rectory, 12 km away in Kingston.
How old are the homes in Hampton?
The 2021 Census dates 18% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Hampton be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Hampton 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).