History of Quispamsis · Canada’s heritage registers
Heritage in Quispamsis: 1 historic place of the highest rank
Quispamsis’s entry is St. Luke's Anglican Church (1833), a national historic site. The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 4.4%. Scaled to its population, Quispamsis’s 0.5 per 10,000 residents beats 74% of Canadian towns. Local registers add one more place, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds its number and little else.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1833
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
4.4%
typical town: 18%
How it began
Quispamsis’s record begins in 1857
Trains arrived at Quispamsis in 1857. On Wikidata the municipality of Quispamsis dates to 1966, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation. Its charter made Quispamsis a village in 1966.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for 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 Quispamsis with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The highest designation, 15 times, within 25 km of Quispamsis
The oldest, Fort La Tour, dates from 1631, 19 km away. Nearest comes Rothesay Railway Station (European and North American), 4.5 km off, in Rothesay. Among them are 15 National Historic Sites, 6 provincial or municipal listings and 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings.
Quispamsis built the most from 1981 to 2000, 31% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Quispamsis’s homes are older than 2001. Quispamsis has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 30%, where most towns have 15%. From 2016 to 2021 Quispamsis added 5.8% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%.
4.4%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
31%
1981–2000
30%
2001–15
5.8%
2016–21
QuispamsisTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Inside Quispamsis there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, led by St. Luke's Anglican Church. Few of its homes are old, 4.4% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: it has one historic place, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and its designation dates from 1994.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
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The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
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The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
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People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
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The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
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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.
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Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
Questions about Quispamsis’s history
Which places in Quispamsis have the highest designation?
Just one: St. Luke's Anglican Church.
How old are the homes in Quispamsis?
4.4% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
What is the oldest building in Quispamsis?
St. Luke's Anglican Church (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1833.
Why might a heritage building in Quispamsis be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Quispamsis is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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.
