National Historic Site · 1820–1821Belmont House / R. Wilmot HomeHighway 102 / Thatch Road
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain1historic place on the registers
History of Lincoln · Canada’s heritage registers
One place in Lincoln, at the top of the registers
It is Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home, a national historic site begun in 1820. Its housing is mostly newer: 5.8% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. It is Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home, a national historic site begun in 1820.
Historic places
1
1.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1820
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
5.8%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Lincoln’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest 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.
Highest designations
One place in Lincoln with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Within 25 km of Lincoln: 24 places on the registers
Its 14 places of national rank start with William Brydone Jack Observatory, at 12 km. The first one out is Drill Hall - D15, 12 km away in Oromocto. Oldest of them is Fort Nashwaak (Naxoat) (1691), 13 km off.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Drill Hall - D15Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1954–1955 · 12 km away, in Oromocto |
| William Brydone Jack ObservatoryNational Historic Site · 1851–1852 · 12 km away, in Fredericton |
| Arts BuildingNational Historic Site · 1826–1828 · 12 km away, in Fredericton |
| Drill Hall - H12Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1954–1955 · 12 km away, in Oromocto |
| Barrack Block - H23Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1959 · 12 km away, in Oromocto |
| Junior Ranks Quarters -D23Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1959 · 12 km away, in Oromocto |
| Barrack Block - H21Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1959 · 12 km away, in Oromocto |
| Christ Church CathedralNational Historic Site · 1845–1854 · 13 km away, in Fredericton |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Fredericton, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1923–1924 · 13 km away, in Fredericton |
| Christ Church AnglicanNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 13 km away, in Maugerville |
| New Brunswick Legislative BuildingProvincial heritage place · 1882 · 13 km away, in Fredericton |
| Beaverbrook Art GalleryLocal historic place · 1959 · 13 km away, in Fredericton |
Homes by age
New homes stand out in Lincoln: 7.9% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
Lincoln’s largest group of homes, 37%, went up from 1981 to 2000. 32% of Lincoln’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Only 17% of Lincoln’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%.
5.8%
Before 1961
17%
1961–80
37%
1981–2000
32%
2001–15
7.9%
2016–21
LincolnTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Lincoln’s people of the past, born 1809–1900
At 85, John Glasier outlived the rest, dying in 1894. There are 4 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. Fame, by Wikipedia: John Glasier first, in 3 languages.
John Glasier
Seraphin R. Léger
Ewart C. Atkinson
Parker D. Mitchell
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John Glasier1809–1894 · Canadian politician
EA
Ewart C. Atkinson1892–1967 · Canadian politician
SL
Seraphin R. Léger1870– · Canadian politician
PM
Parker D. Mitchell1900–1963 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Lincoln → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns its size
Lincoln has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,000 to 8,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Lincoln1
The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have none.
Neighbours
Lincoln and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 8,093 | 1 | 1 | 1820 |
| New Maryland | 4,455 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Oromocto | 9,451 | 5 | 0 | 1954 |
| New Maryland | 3,198 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Burton | 5,424 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Starlight Village | 5,108 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Maugerville | 1,808 | 7 | 2 | 1856 |
In brief
Lincoln in brief
Lincoln holds 1 historic place on Canada’s registers, one with the highest designation, including Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are John Glasier (1809), Ewart C. Atkinson (1892) and Seraphin R. Léger (1870). Counted by age, only 5.8% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its designation dates from 1975.
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.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- 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.
Questions about Lincoln’s history
Which places in Lincoln have the highest designation?
Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home.
What is the oldest building in Lincoln?
Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1820.
How old are the homes in Lincoln?
5.8% predate 1961, where 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).