Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: evoluc · CC BY-SA 2.0Among the places are 2 provincial or municipal listings. Only a few towns match Memramcook per resident: 5.3 for every 10,000, ahead of 95% of Canadian towns. The oldest dated place, Sainte-Anne Chapel, goes back to 1842.
Each of Memramcook’s designated places has a photo. Two worth a look first: Monument-Lefebvre and Saint-Thomas de Memramcook Church. 3 different photographers shared them on Wikimedia Commons.
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.
It was in 1700 that Memramcook was founded. It has been 326 years since then. Memramcook was incorporated as a town in 1995.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Memramcook”, revision 1377752032 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. They date from 1842 (Sainte-Anne Chapel) to 1855. Each one opens its own page.
Count back from today and half of Memramcook’s homes are older than 1981. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 3.4% of Memramcook’s, about the typical 4.1%. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Memramcook 27% 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.
Most of them, 11 of 16, came into the world in the years before Confederation. Amand Landry comes first, born in 1805. The last born is Cléophas Léger, in 1913. By Wikipedia’s reach, Philomène Belliveau leads, with 4 articles.
Everyone born in Memramcook → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 5,600 to 5,700 residents, by places on the registers.
The typical town its size has 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memramcook | 5,616 | 3 | 1 | 1842 |
| Dorchester | 1,130 | 3 | 1 | 1831 |
| Hillsborough | 1,569 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Hillsborough | 1,414 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Dieppe | 35,986 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sackville | 6,572 | 3 | 1 | 1855 |
| Coverdale | 5,167 | 0 | 0 | — |
Housing in Memramcook includes 30% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, Monument-Lefebvre among them. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Philomène Belliveau (1854), Thomas-Jean Bourque (1864) and David-Vital Landry (1866) are the best known of its historic lives. The other figures are unremarkable: its one place was designated in 1994.
It is Monument-Lefebvre.
30% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Sainte-Anne Chapel (Provincial heritage place): the first construction date on its record is 1842.
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).
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