TopNational Historic Site · 1901–1902Hartland Covered BridgeRoute 105, south east side of bridgePhoto: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Commons file
Hartland Covered Bridge · Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Wakefield · Canada’s heritage registers
Wakefield’s 1 historic place is a top designation
Only a few towns match Wakefield per resident: 3.6 for every 10,000, ahead of 92% of Canadian towns. Hartland Covered Bridge, from 1901, is the town’s national historic site.
Historic places
1
3.6 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1901
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
23%
typical town: 18%
Through time
The old face of Wakefield
The oldest view of one of its historic places, made before 1950. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1901Public 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.
The map
Where Wakefield’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
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 Wakefield with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
6 historic places within 25 km of Wakefield
Their towns number 2: Woodstock and Florenceville-Bristol first. The first one out is Old Carleton County Court House, 10 km away in Woodstock. Connell House carries the top designation, 13 km away.
The 6 nearest, within 25 km
| Old Carleton County Court HouseProvincial heritage place · 1833 · 10 km away, in Woodstock |
| L. P. Fisher Public LibraryLocal historic place · 1914 · 13 km away, in Woodstock |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1904–1906 · 13 km away, in Woodstock |
| Connell HouseNational Historic Site · 1839–1841 · 13 km away, in Woodstock |
| Government of Canada BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1955–1956 · 13 km away, in Woodstock |
| Florenceville BridgeLocal historic place · 20 km away, in Florenceville-Bristol |
Homes by age
Wakefield added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2.2%, where most towns have 4.1%
The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 34% of Wakefield’s homes. 23% of Wakefield’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Over half of the homes in Wakefield were already standing by 2001.
23%
Before 1961
24%
1961–80
34%
1981–2000
18%
2001–15
2.2%
2016–21
WakefieldTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Wakefield has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,700 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Wakefield1
Only Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse and Victoria County, Subdivision A have more. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have none.
Neighbours
Wakefield and its neighbours
In brief
Wakefield in brief
Wakefield has 23% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, led by Hartland Covered Bridge. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. For the rest, its past has lives on the record such as Benjamin Franklin Smith (1865) and Aida McAnn Flemming (1896); and its one place was designated in 1977.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
Questions about Wakefield’s history
Which places in Wakefield have the highest designation?
It is Hartland Covered Bridge.
What is the oldest building in Wakefield?
Hartland Covered Bridge, a National Historic Site, begun in 1901.
How old are the homes in Wakefield?
23% predate 1961, where 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).