City of Mount Pearl heritage site · 1914Admiralty House Museum & Archives
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.01historic place on the registers
History of Mount Pearl · Canada’s heritage registers
Mount Pearl’s past, on the record: 1 historic place
Mount Pearl’s one place is Admiralty House Museum & Archives, a city of mount pearl heritage site begun in 1914. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is 1834: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which. Before 1961: just 6.8% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. Scaled to its population, Mount Pearl’s 0.4 per 10,000 residents beats 73% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
0.4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1914
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
6.8%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Mount Pearl’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
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.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Mount Pearl: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Within 10 km of Mount Pearl: 21 places on the registers
They belong to 2 towns, chiefly St. John's and Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove. Fort Townshend, 9.1 km off, is the oldest: 1773. Among them are 14 National Historic Sites and 7 provincial or municipal listings.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ChurchNational Historic Site · 1864–1882 · 8 km away, in St. John's |
| Former Newfoundland Railway HeadquartersNational Historic Site · 1901–1904 · 8.3 km away, in St. John's |
| George Street United ChurchCity of St. John's heritage site · 8.5 km away, in St. John's |
| Water Street Historic DistrictNational Historic Site · 1847–1917 · 8.9 km away, in St. John's |
| Fort TownshendNational Historic Site · 1773–1780 · 9.1 km away, in St. John's |
| St. John's Ecclesiastical DistrictCity of St. John's heritage district · 9.2 km away, in St. John's |
| St. John the Baptist Anglican CathedralNational Historic Site · 1847–1851 · 9.2 km away, in St. John's |
| Basilica of St. John the BaptistNational Historic Site · 1839–1856 · 9.3 km away, in St. John's |
| St. John's Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1900–1905 · 9.3 km away, in St. John's |
| Masonic TempleCity of St. John's heritage site · 9.3 km away, in St. John's |
| Petty Harbour Generating StationProvincial or municipal listing · 9.4 km away, in Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove |
| Former Bank of British North AmericaNational Historic Site · 1848–1851 · 9.4 km away, in St. John's |
Homes by age
Mount Pearl built the most from 1981 to 2000, 40% of today’s homes
38% of Mount Pearl’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, more than the typical town’s 27%. From 2016 on, Mount Pearl built only 3.2% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Mount Pearl’s homes are older than 2001.
6.8%
Before 1961
38%
1961–80
40%
1981–2000
12%
2001–15
3.2%
2016–21
Mount PearlTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
Mount Pearl and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pearl | 24,266 | 1 | 0 | 1914 |
| Paradise | 26,155 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St. John's | 128,693 | 35 | 25 | 1697 |
| Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove | 1,005 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's | 9,167 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Conception Bay South | 29,725 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove | 2,601 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Mount Pearl in brief
Mount Pearl holds 1 historic place on Canada’s registers. The census dates only 6.8% of its homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, one historic place is about usual for its size (the median is 1).
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Mount Pearl’s history
How many historic places does Mount Pearl have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Mount Pearl.
What is the oldest building in Mount Pearl?
Admiralty House Museum & Archives (City of Mount Pearl heritage site): the first construction date on its record is 1914.
How old are the homes in Mount Pearl?
6.8% 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).