LocalProvincially Registered Property · 1810Uniacke Estate Museum ParkPhoto: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0 · Commons file
Lawrence House · Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.02historic places on the registers
History of Enfield · Canada’s heritage registers
Enfield: 2 historic places on Canada’s heritage registers
Go back to 1810 in Enfield and you reach Uniacke Estate Museum Park, the oldest of its places. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from 1861, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding. Per resident Enfield has more than 77% of Canadian towns: 0.7 for every 10,000 people. Counted by designation, there are 2 provincial or municipal listings.
Historic places
2
0.7 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
2
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1810
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
17%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Enfield’s historic places in 2 photos
Photos show both of the places Enfield’s registers name. First come Lawrence House and Uniacke Estate Museum Park.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The map
Where Enfield’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 2, by tier
2 Provincial and local listings
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.
Provincial and local listings
On provincial and local lists in Enfield: 2 places
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. The oldest, Uniacke Estate Museum Park, dates from 1810; the newest from 1870. Each one opens its own page.
LocalProvincially Registered Property · 1870Lawrence HousePhoto: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0 · Commons file
Around the town
49 places of national importance within 50 km of Enfield
By designation: 46 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, 38 National Historic Sites and 18 provincial or municipal listings. Nearest comes Fultz House, 31 km off, in Lower Sackville. Oldest of them is D'Anville's Encampment (1746), 39 km off.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Fultz HouseMunicipally Registered Property · 1865 · 31 km away, in Lower Sackville |
| Scott Manor HouseProvincially Registered Property · 34 km away, in Bedford |
| Bedford PetroglyphsNational Historic Site · 34 km away, in Bedford |
| Van Steenburgh and Polaris Buildings at The Bedford Institute of OceanographyRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1962–1963 · 38 km away, in Austinville |
| AfricvilleNational Historic Site · 1830 · 39 km away, in Windsor Park |
| D'Anville's EncampmentNational Historic Site · 1746 · 39 km away, in Clayton Park West |
| Building No. 4Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1916–1917 · 40 km away, in Austinville |
| Greenvale SchoolMunicipally Registered Property · 1915 · 40 km away, in Austinville |
| Quaker Whaler HouseMunicipally Registered Property · 1786 · 40 km away, in Austinville |
| Wellington HouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1852–1861 · 41 km away, in North End |
| Hydrostone DistrictNational Historic Site · 1917 · 41 km away, in North End |
| Carall Building S-17Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1941–1945 · 41 km away, in North End |
Homes by age
A growing town: 6.4% of Enfield’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Before 1961: 17% of Enfield’s homes, near the usual 18%. The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 32% of Enfield’s homes. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 20% of Enfield’s, against 15% in the typical town.
17%
Before 1961
25%
1961–80
32%
1981–2000
20%
2001–15
6.4%
2016–21
EnfieldTypical 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
1816 to 1900: the people Enfield gave its past
13 of the 19 were born in the decades after Confederation. The widest known is Silas McLellan: 8 Wikipedia editions. Before 1914, 19 births here made the record. Longest lived was Harry Herbert Miller, 89 years in all (1968).
Joseph Salter
Elizabeth Frame
Archibald Frame
Francis Parker McHeffey
George Wilbert Smith
Edmund Henry Horne
Albert Parsons
Annie Hennigar
Ezra Churchill Henniger
Willard Miller
Harry Herbert Miller
Murray Macneill
Leland Payson Bancroft
Frank Parker Day
Clare Gass
Willard O'Brien
Silas McLellan
Guy Murray Logan
George B. Cole
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Silas McLellan1897–1974 · Canadian marathon runner
Harry Herbert Miller1879–1968 · United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
EF
Elizabeth Frame1820–1904 · Canadian historian
Frank Parker Day1881–1950 · Canadian writer
Joseph Salter1816–1901 · Canadian businessman
Edmund Henry Horne1865–1953 · Canadian businessman
AP
Albert Parsons1869–1948 · Canadian politician
EH
Ezra Churchill Henniger1873–1959 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Enfield → 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
Enfield has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 26,600 to 27,400 residents, by places on the registers.
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Ahead of it: La Prairie and Sainte-Thérèse. Their median is 0. For 9, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Enfield and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield | 26,960 | 2 | 0 | 1810 |
| Indian Brook 14 | 1,225 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dutch Settlement | 6,234 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Enfield in brief
Inside Enfield there are 2 historic places. Just 2 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Silas McLellan (1897), Harry Herbert Miller (1879) and Elizabeth Frame (1820) lead its people of the past. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 17% of the total, against 18% in the typical town.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- 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.
Questions about Enfield’s history
How many historic places does Enfield have on the registers?
2 historic places inside Enfield, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Enfield?
Uniacke Estate Museum Park, a Provincially Registered Property, begun in 1810.
Why might a heritage building in Enfield be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 2 more listings in Enfield, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
How old are the homes in Enfield?
17% 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).