TopNational Historic Site · 1892–1894Beinn Bhreagh Hall998 Beinn Bhreagh RoadPhoto: Ken Heaton · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Alexander Graham Bell · Photo: Skeezix1000 · CC BY-SA 3.07historic places on the registers
History of Victoria County, Subdivision B · Canada’s heritage registers
Heritage in Victoria County, Subdivision B: 7 historic places, 2 of the highest rank
The list takes in 4 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage lighthouse. For its size Victoria County, Subdivision B is rich ground: 16 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 99% of Canadian towns. The oldest dated place, Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church, goes back to 1883. Local registers add 4 more places, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds their numbers and little else.
Historic places
7
16 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
2
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Provincial and local listings
4
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1883
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
31%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Then and today: Victoria County, Subdivision B in 7 photos and 1 old pictures
Two to begin with: Alexander Graham Bell and Beinn Bhreagh Hall. Each of Victoria County, Subdivision B’s designated places has a photo. They come from 5 photographers.
Beinn Bhreagh Hall
Black Rock Point Lighthouse
St. Mark's Masonic Lodge
Gilbert H. Grosvenor Hall
Palais de justice du comté de Victoria+2See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
Old pictures of Victoria County, Subdivision B
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
c. 1897Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The map
Where Victoria County, Subdivision B’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsOther federal designationsProvincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 7, by tier
2 Highest designations1 Other federal designations4 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.
Highest designations
2 places in Victoria County, Subdivision B with the highest designation
Their designations span 1952 to 2017. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They date from 1892 (Beinn Bhreagh Hall) to 1954. Each one opens its own page.
TopNational Historic Site · 1954–1955Alexander Graham BellChebucto Street (Route 205)Photo: Skeezix1000 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Victoria County, Subdivision B
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
FedHeritage Lighthouse · 1978–1979Black Rock Point LighthouseBlack Rock Light RoadPhoto: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Commons file
Provincial and local listings
On provincial and local lists in Victoria County, Subdivision B: 4 places
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. They date from 1883 (Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church) to 1898. Each one opens its own page.
LocalProvincially Registered Property · 1883Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican ChurchPhoto: Gillian · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Commons file
LocalProvincially Registered Property · 1886Gilbert H. Grosvenor HallPhoto: Skeezix1000 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
LocalMunicipally Registered Property · 1889Palais de justice du comté de VictoriaPhoto: Skeezix1000 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
LocalMunicipally Registered Property · 1898St. Mark's Masonic LodgePhoto: BunkieBuilder · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
How old
In Victoria County, Subdivision B, the decades after Confederation left the most behind
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
British North America 1760–18660
After Confederation 1867–19135
Wars and Depression 1914–19450
Since 1946 1946 on2
Homes by age
A town of older homes: 31% of Victoria County, Subdivision B’s were built before 1961 (18% is typical)
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 make up just 2.7% of Victoria County, Subdivision B’s, below the typical 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Victoria County, Subdivision B’s homes are older than 1981. In Victoria County, Subdivision B, 30% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
31%
Before 1961
30%
1961–80
25%
1981–2000
12%
2001–15
2.7%
2016–21
Victoria County, Subdivision BTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
People of the past
People of Victoria County, Subdivision B’s past, 2 of them designated by Canada
The register links Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Graham Bell. By Wikipedia’s reach, John Alexander Douglas McCurdy leads, with 8 articles. Most of them, 3 of 6, came into the world in the years before Confederation. At the other end is Mabel H. Grosvenor, from 1905.
William Ross
Alexander Graham Bell
George W. Rice
Aulay MacAulay Morrison
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
A. A. MacLeod
Mabel H. Grosvenor
1800182518501875190019251950
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy1886–1961 · On Canada’s list since 1974 · Canadian politician
Mabel H. Grosvenor1905–2006 · American pediatrician
George W. Rice1855–1884 · Canadian photographer
AM
A. A. MacLeod1902–1970 · Canadian politician, steelworker, soldier, and human rights advocate
William Ross1824–1912 · Canadian politician
Aulay MacAulay Morrison1863–1942 · Canadian politician
AB
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922 · National historic person, 1977 · Remembered at Alexander Graham Bell
Everyone born in Victoria County, Subdivision B → Born before 1914, or named by one of the town’s historic places. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns its size
Victoria County, Subdivision B has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,200 to 4,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Victoria County, Subdivision B7
The middle one has 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
In brief
Victoria County, Subdivision B in brief
Housing in Victoria County, Subdivision B includes 31% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 7 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, including Beinn Bhreagh Hall. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places.
Most of its dated places come from the decades after Confederation: 5 of 7. Of its people of the past, the best known are John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (1886), Mabel H. Grosvenor (1905) and George W. Rice (1855). Everything else is close to the norm: the list grew between 1952 and 2017.
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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
Questions about Victoria County, Subdivision B’s history
Which places in Victoria County, Subdivision B have the highest designation?
They are Beinn Bhreagh Hall and Alexander Graham Bell.
How old are the homes in Victoria County, Subdivision B?
31% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
What is the oldest building in Victoria County, Subdivision B?
Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church (Provincially Registered Property): the first construction date on its record is 1883.
Why might a heritage building in Victoria County, Subdivision B be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 4 further listings in Victoria County, Subdivision B 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).