Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Homes from before 1961 make up 46% of Hartland’s stock, above the 18% of the typical town. 7 places on the heritage registers lie within 25 km of Hartland, the nearest Hartland Covered Bridge, 1.5 km away. The old pictures of Hartland, 2 of them, date from 1865 to 1910. Heritage of the first rank begins 7.8 km away, in Wakefield.
Oldest first: 2 old photographs of the town. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.
1865
1910Public 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.
William Orser founded Hartland in 1790. It has been 236 years since then. A single date stands for Hartland as a municipality on Wikidata, 1813, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
In 1874, the place received the name Hartland.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Hartland, New Brunswick”, revision 1377786856 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Out to 25 km from Hartland, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
Old Carleton County Court House, in Woodstock, is the oldest (1833). 6 places within 25 km carry a construction date. 2 predate Confederation.
The first one out is Hartland Covered Bridge, 1.5 km away in Wakefield. Their towns number 3: Woodstock, Wakefield and Florenceville-Bristol first. Oldest of them is Old Carleton County Court House (1833), 15 km off.
| Hartland Covered BridgeNational Historic Site · 1901–1902 · 1.5 km away, in Wakefield |
| Old Carleton County Court HouseProvincial heritage place · 1833 · 15 km away, in Woodstock |
| L. P. Fisher Public LibraryLocal historic place · 1914 · 17 km away, in Woodstock |
| Government of Canada BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1955–1956 · 17 km away, in Woodstock |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1904–1906 · 17 km away, in Woodstock |
| Connell HouseNational Historic Site · 1839–1841 · 17 km away, in Woodstock |
| Florenceville BridgeLocal historic place · 18 km away, in Florenceville-Bristol |
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 5.4% of Hartland’s, against 15% in the typical town. Count back from today and half of Hartland’s homes are older than 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Hartland 24% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
3 people on the record were born here before 1914. The longest life was Samuel M. Stephenson’s: 76 years, to 1907. Samuel M. Stephenson is the most written about, in 6 languages.
Everyone born in Hartland → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Of the homes standing in Hartland, 46% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Its history in lives: Samuel M. Stephenson (1831), Bill Jones (1887) and Andy Tommy (1911).
Inside Hartland, none so far. At 1.5 km, Hartland Covered Bridge in Wakefield is the nearest, with the top designation.
Before 1961: 46% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Hartland, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets no page.
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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).