FedHeritage Lighthouse · 1881Rocky Point LighthouseSouthside DrivePhoto: Martin Cathrae from Charlottetown, PE, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Commons file
Rocky Point Lighthouse · Photo: Martin Cathrae from Charlottetown, PE, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Harbour Breton · Canada’s heritage registers
Harbour Breton’s past, on the record: 1 historic place
Rocky Point Lighthouse, from 1881, is Harbour Breton’s heritage lighthouse. Local registers add 11 more places, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds their numbers and little else.
Historic places
1
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1881
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
22%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Harbour Breton’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal 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.
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Harbour Breton
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Homes by age
Harbour Breton added no homes from 2016 to 2021, where most towns have 4.1%
More of Harbour Breton’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 39%. 22% of Harbour Breton’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Harbour Breton built little from 2001 to 2015: 9.4% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
22%
Before 1961
39%
1961–80
30%
1981–2000
9.4%
2001–15
0%
2016–21
Harbour BretonTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
Harbour Breton in brief
Older stock first: 22% of homes in Harbour Breton were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all. Beyond that, its one place was designated in 2016.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Harbour Breton’s history
How many historic places does Harbour Breton have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Harbour Breton, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Harbour Breton?
By its record, Rocky Point Lighthouse, from 1881 (Heritage Lighthouse).
Why might a heritage building in Harbour Breton be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 11 further listings in Harbour Breton show up only as Wikidata numbers.
How old are the homes in Harbour Breton?
The 2021 Census dates 22% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).