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Canadian National Railways (Intercolonial Railway) Station, Sackville, New Brunswick · Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0The record has a heritage railway station and a provincial or municipal listing. Scaled to its population Sackville’s record is long: 4.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 94% of Canadian towns. Before 1961: 33% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. Captain George Anderson House, begun in 1855, is the oldest by its record.
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
c. 1918Public 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.
Its oldest recorded station, Sackville railway station, dates from 1907. For the municipality of Sackville itself, Wikidata records 1762, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger.
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.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia 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.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
More than half of Sackville’s housing predates 1981. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 4.8% of Sackville’s, about the typical 4.1%. 26% of Sackville’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The longest life here was Frederick L. Estabrooks’s, 98 years, ending in 1974. Fame, by Wikipedia: Red Stuart first, in 6 languages. Marriner W. Merrill comes first, born in 1832. Of the 12, 9 were born in the decades after Confederation.
Everyone born in Sackville → 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 6,500 to 6,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sackville | 6,572 | 3 | 1 | 1855 |
| Sackville | 1,286 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dorchester | 1,130 | 3 | 1 | 1831 |
| Amherst | 10,072 | 4 | 0 | 1895 |
| Memramcook | 5,616 | 3 | 1 | 1842 |
Sackville’s homes from before 1961 come to 33%, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, with Hammond House first. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. Red Stuart (1900), Marriner W. Merrill (1832) and Josiah Wood (1843) lead its people of the past. Everything else is close to the norm: the list grew between 1990 and 1994.
The 2021 Census dates 33% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Hammond House.
By its record, Captain George Anderson House, from 1855 (Local historic place).
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 4 more listings in Sackville are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
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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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