Heritage Lighthouse · 1916–1917Pointe à Jérôme Front Range Lighthouse18 Pointe à Jérôme Road
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Wellington · Canada’s heritage registers
Wellington’s past, on the record: 1 historic place
Wellington’s entry is Pointe à Jérôme Front Range Lighthouse (1916), a heritage lighthouse. Relative to its size Wellington has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 89% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
2.9 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1916
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
18%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Wellington’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
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.
Other federal designations
One more federal designation in Wellington
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
One place of the highest rank within 50 km of Wellington
Between them, 7 towns share them, mainly Moncton, Bouctouche and O'Leary. Musée de Kent in Bouctouche is the nearest, 2.6 km away. Among them are 18 provincial or municipal listings, 3 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and a heritage lighthouse.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Musée de KentProvincial heritage place · 2.6 km away, in Bouctouche |
| Saint Lawrence Anglican ChurchLocal historic place · 1867 · 3.8 km away, in Bouctouche |
| Caissie Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1872–1873 · 25 km away, in Dundas |
| West Point LighthouseDesignated heritage place · 1876 · 28 km away, in O'Leary |
| Collège Saint-LouisLocal historic place · 1874 · 34 km away, in Saint-Louis de Kent |
| Shediac railway stationLocal historic place · 34 km away, in Shediac |
| Magnetic HillLocal historic place · 43 km away, in Moncton |
| O'Leary railway stationDesignated heritage place · 44 km away, in O'Leary |
| Léopold-Taillon BuildingLocal historic place · 1948 · 45 km away, in Moncton |
| Sunny Brae RinkLocal historic place · 1920 · 45 km away, in Moncton |
| Gulf Fisheries CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1948–1949 · 45 km away, in Moncton |
| Free Meeting HouseNational Historic Site · 1821–1822 · 46 km away, in Moncton |
Homes by age
Wellington built the most from 1961 to 1980, 39% of today’s homes
From 2016 on, Wellington built 4.5% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. Like the typical town (18%), Wellington has 18% of its homes from before 1961. Count back from today and half of Wellington’s homes are older than 1981.
18%
Before 1961
39%
1961–80
23%
1981–2000
17%
2001–15
4.5%
2016–21
WellingtonTypical 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
Wellington has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,400 to 3,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Wellington1
The typical town its size has 0. For 15, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Wellington and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | 3,458 | 1 | 0 | 1916 |
| Bouctouche | 2,678 | 2 | 0 | 1867 |
| Saint Mary | 2,083 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Richibucto | 2,457 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Antoine | 1,880 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cocagne | 2,982 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Wellington in brief
Before 1961: 18% of Wellington’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. The other figures are unremarkable: its designation dates from 2022.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
Questions about Wellington’s history
How many historic places does Wellington have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Wellington.
What is the oldest building in Wellington?
Pointe à Jérôme Front Range Lighthouse (Heritage Lighthouse): the first construction date on its record is 1916.
How old are the homes in Wellington?
18% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).