Photo: Art Anderson · CC BY-SA 3.0Older housing stands out in Centre Hastings: 32% predates 1961
For Centre Hastings, that is 1.8 times the typical town’s share, 18%. The registers count 8 places within 50 km of Centre Hastings; the closest, Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk), is 33 km away. The nearest town with a top designation is Belleville, 32 km away. Records name 2 people born in Centre Hastings before 1914; the first is Harold Edward Welsh.
Within 50 km of Centre Hastings, the record goes back to 1787
Reaching 50 km out from Centre Hastings: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Within 50 km, building dates exist for 8 places. 5 are older than 1867. Oldest of all: Carrying Place of the Bay of Quinte, Picton, 1787.
33 km from Centre Hastings: Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk), the nearest on the registers
Within 50 km there are 8 in all. Their towns number 6: Belleville, Havelock and Quinte West first. The mix: 6 National Historic Sites, a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station.
The 8 nearest, within 50 km
| Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 33 km away, in Belleville |
| Glanmore / Phillips-Faulkner HouseNational Historic Site · 1882–1884 · 34 km away, in Belleville |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1909 · 35 km away, in Belleville |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Havelock, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1930 · 35 km away, in Havelock |
| Trent – Severn WaterwayNational Historic Site · 1830–1921 · 43 km away, in Quinte West |
| Christ Church, Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the MohawkNational Historic Site · 1843–1844 · 43 km away, in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory |
| Napanee Town HallNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 46 km away, in Greater Napanee |
| Carrying Place of the Bay of QuinteNational Historic Site · 1787 · 48 km away, in Picton |
32% of Centre Hastings’s homes were built before 1961
Centre Hastings has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 19%, where most towns have 15%. Few of Centre Hastings’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 20%, the norm 27%. New building in Centre Hastings runs at the usual pace: 3.6% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Centre Hastings and its neighbours
Centre Hastings in brief
Counted by age, 32% of Centre Hastings’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed; and Harold Edward Welsh (1896) and Roscoe Lewis Robson (1897) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- 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 grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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 Centre Hastings’s history
How many historic places does Centre Hastings have on the registers?
Nothing inside Centre Hastings; Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk) in Belleville, 33 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Centre Hastings?
32% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).