Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Free Meeting House · Photo: knittymarie · CC BY-SA 2.0On the list: 11 provincial or municipal listings and 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Of the dated places, Free Meeting House is the oldest, from 1821. For every 10,000 residents Moncton has 1.4, ahead of 82% of Canadian towns. A further one sits a short way past the edge of town.
There are photos here of 11 of Moncton’s designated places. 2 of Moncton’s places also have old views on their own pages. You can start with Free Meeting House and “Victoria Park, New Brunswick”.
Victoria Park, New Brunswick
Saint George's Anglican Church
Magnetic Hill
Sunny Brae Rink
Federal Building, Dominion Public Building+6See all photosPhotos 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.
By date: 8 old photographs of the town, with the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
1902
1905
c. 1906
c. 1906
c. 1906
1908
1927
1931
c. 1940
1940Public 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.
As a municipality, Moncton carries the date 1766 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. Behind the name Moncton is Robert Monckton.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
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.
Their designations span 1985 to 1995. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. “Federal Building, Dominion Public Building” is the earliest, from 1934; the latest dates from 1948. Each one opens its own page.
The record covers 6 kinds of building and site. 2 places make churches and religious buildings the second group. At the head of the list: Free Meeting House and “Federal Building, Dominion Public Building”.
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Bank of Montreal Building is the earliest, from 1876; the latest dates from 1986. Each one opens its own page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
One of the 12 dated places is older than Confederation.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| The BendLocal historic place · 100 m outside the town |
Moncton’s largest group of homes, 25%, went up from 1961 to 1980. 24% of Moncton’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Moncton has 21% of its homes from before 1961.
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, 20 of 27, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. 6 Wikipedias cover Ivan Rand, the most of anyone here. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 27 births here before 1914. At 100, Gordon Perry outlived the rest, dying in 2003. The 20 best known are on the timeline.
Everyone born in Moncton → 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 of 92,500 to 113,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Victoria and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu have more. The typical town its size has 4. 5 of them have none.
Before 1961: 21% of Moncton’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. There are 14 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Free Meeting House heads them. Just 2 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Ivan Rand (1884), Clifford William Robinson (1866) and Harry Scott (1887) are the best known of its historic lives. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1985 and 1995.
Free Meeting House.
Free Meeting House (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1821.
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 80 further listings in Moncton show up only as Wikidata numbers.
Before 1961: 21% of its homes; 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).
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