Former Intercolonial Railway Station, Sussex, New Brunswick · Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0
1historic place on the registers
History of Sussex · Canada’s heritage registers
38% of Sussex’s homes were built before 1961
The typical town has 18%: Sussex has 2.2 times the share. Canada’s heritage registers list 1 historic place inside the town. Measured against its size, 2 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 86% of Canadian towns. It is Former Intercolonial Railway Station, Sussex, New Brunswick, a heritage railway station begun in 1913.
Sussex got its start in 1786. It has been 240 years since then. For the municipality of Sussex itself, Wikidata records January 1903, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
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.
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Sussex
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
New homes are rare in Sussex: 1.5% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Over half of the homes in Sussex were already standing by 1981. Sussex built little from 1981 to 2000: 17% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 27% of Sussex’s, about the typical 27%.
38%
Before 1961
27%
1961–80
17%
1981–2000
16%
2001–15
1.5%
2016–21
SussexTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Born in Sussex, 1849 to 1906
There are 5 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. Best known is William Pugsley, with articles in 6 Wikipedia languages. Longest lived was Richard Chapman Weldon, 76 years in all (1925). 3 of the 5 were born in the years before Confederation.
Richard Chapman Weldon
William Pugsley
Ora P. King
Jack Miller
Joe Lamb
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William Pugsley1850–1925 · Canadian politician
Richard Chapman Weldon1849–1925 · Canadian politician
JL
Joe Lamb1906–1982 · Canadian ice hockey player
JM
Jack Miller1899–1957 · Canadian athlete
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Ora P. King1865– · Former Canadian politician
Everyone born in Sussex → 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 its size
Sussex has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,000 to 5,000 residents, by places on the registers.
The pre-1961 share of Sussex’s homes is 38%, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. Among the lives from its past: William Pugsley (1850), Richard Chapman Weldon (1849) and Joe Lamb (1906). The other figures are unremarkable: its designation dates from 1994.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
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Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
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People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
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The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
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Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
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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.
Questions about Sussex’s history
How old are the homes in Sussex?
38% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Sussex have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Sussex.
What is the oldest building in Sussex?
Former Intercolonial Railway Station, Sussex, New Brunswick, a Heritage Railway Station, begun in 1913.
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.
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