Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Dory Shop Museum · Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Shelburne’s share is 2.9 times the typical 18%. Inside the town the registers count 1 historic place. There are also 17 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages.
A single date stands for Shelburne as a municipality on Wikidata, 1783, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. Shelburne took its legal form as a town in 1907.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Shelburne, Nova Scotia”, revision 1376853691 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
The nearest historic places to Shelburne, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
Within 50 km, 7 records give a date. 2 go back before 1867. The earliest is Fort St. Louis in Barrington, begun in 1629.
The radius of 50 km holds 7. Fort St. Louis, 33 km off, is the oldest: 1629. Nearest comes Lighthouse, 29 km off, in Barrington.
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1915–1916 · 29 km away, in Barrington |
| Barrington Woolen MillMunicipally Registered Property · 1968 · 30 km away, in Barrington |
| Old Barrington Meeting HouseNational Historic Site · 1765–1766 · 31 km away, in Barrington |
| Fort St. LouisNational Historic Site · 1629 · 33 km away, in Barrington |
| Port Mouton LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1937 · 45 km away, in Liverpool |
| Lighthouse (new)Classified Federal Heritage Building · 1923–1924 · 48 km away, in Barrington |
| Sainte Anne's Catholic ChurchMunicipally Registered Property · 1901 · 50 km away, in Argyle |
Half of the homes standing in Shelburne today were built before 1961. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 6.3% of Shelburne’s, against 15% in the typical town. Shelburne built little from 1981 to 2000: 14% of its homes, where most towns have 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Wilfred Dauphinee reached 97, the longest life here, ending in 2007. John Augustus Larson is the most written about, in 7 languages. There are 7 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. The decades after Confederation gave 4 of the 7.
Everyone born in Shelburne → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelburne | 1,797 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Shelburne | 4,542 | 0 | 0 | — |
Shelburne has 51% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place. Of its people of the past, the best known are John Augustus Larson (1892), Robert Irwin (1865) and John Oates Bower (1901).
The 2021 Census dates 51% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
1 historic place in Shelburne, from Canada’s heritage registers.
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 17 further listings in Shelburne show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).
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