McAdam Railway Station (Canadian Pacific) · Photo: WayneRay · Public domain
1historic place on the registers
History of McAdam · Canada’s heritage registers
Older housing stands out in McAdam: 70% predates 1961
For McAdam, that is 4 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Its 1 historic place is of the highest rank. That place is McAdam Railway Station (Canadian Pacific), a national historic site, from 1900.
Public 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.
How it began
How McAdam began, in 1869
The founding of McAdam came in 1869. That makes it 157 years old. The name of McAdam honours John McAdam.
Its oldest recorded station, McAdam Railway Station, dates from 1901. The municipality of McAdam has the date 1966 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
The highest rank in McAdam: one place
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
27 places of national importance within 100 km of McAdam
The mix: 26 National Historic Sites, 14 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 11 provincial or municipal listings. Fredericton, Saint Andrews and Maugerville hold most of them, among 15 towns. 55 places lie within 100 km.
Little new building in McAdam: 1.9% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Half of the homes standing in McAdam today were built before 1961. Only 7.5% of McAdam’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Few of McAdam’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 6.5%, the norm 15%.
70%
Before 1961
15%
1961–80
7.5%
1981–2000
6.5%
2001–15
1.9%
2016–21
McAdamTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
McAdam in brief
McAdam has 70% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including McAdam Railway Station (Canadian Pacific). Everything else is close to the norm: its past has one life on the record, Gregory Evans (1913); and its one place was designated in 1976.
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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
•
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.
•
Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
•
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.
•
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.
•
Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
Questions about McAdam’s history
How old are the homes in McAdam?
70% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Which places in McAdam have the highest designation?
Just one: McAdam Railway Station (Canadian Pacific).
What is the oldest building in McAdam?
McAdam Railway Station (Canadian Pacific) — its record dates it to 1900 (National Historic Site).
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.
1900
Top