Photo: P199 · Public domain72 registered heritage sites stand within 25 km of Cumberland
The closest top-tier heritage to Cumberland is in Manor Park, 20 km away. The 2021 Census dates 21% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.
Near Cumberland, within 25 km: 35 places of national rank
The mix: 22 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, 21 National Historic Sites and 14 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings. Their towns number 13: Centretown, Lowertown West and New Edinburgh first. At 4.3 km, Masson railway station in Bassin-de-la-Lièvre is the closest.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Masson railway stationHeritage Railway Station of Canada · 4.3 km away, in Bassin-de-la-Lièvre |
| Maison CosgroveMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1850–1860 · 13 km away, in L'Ange-Gardien |
| Maison CorriganMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1860 · 14 km away, in L'Ange-Gardien |
| Powell HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 17 km away, in Greenbelt (east) |
| Site patrimonial du Quartier-du-MoulinCited heritage site (Québec) · 19 km away, in Du Moulin |
| Beechwood CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873–1874 · 21 km away, in Manor Park |
| VIA Rail Station, Ottawa, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1965–1967 · 21 km away, in Riverview |
| Église anglicane Saint-John-in-the-WildernessMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1899–1902 · 22 km away, in L'Ange-Gardien |
| StornowayRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1913–1915 · 22 km away, in Manor Park |
| Rideau CottageRecognized federal heritage building of Canada · 1867 · 22 km away, in New Edinburgh |
| Rideau Hall and Landscaped GroundsNational Historic Site · 1838–1839 · 23 km away, in New Edinburgh |
| Laurier HouseNational Historic Site · 1878–1879 · 23 km away, in Sandy Hill |
Within 25 km of Cumberland, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
The area here stretches to 25 km around Cumberland: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
66 places within 25 km have a date. 20 go back before 1867. The earliest is Commissariat Building in Centretown, begun in 1827.
Cumberland’s homes are mostly newer: 13% predate 1961, where most towns have 18%
19% of Cumberland’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. The busiest building years in Cumberland were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 28% of today’s homes. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 19% of Cumberland’s, against 27% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Cumberland compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,100 to 6,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Haultain, Saint-Césaire and Sioux Lookout. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Cumberland and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland | 6,139 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bassin-de-la-Lièvre | 10,571 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Cardinal Creek | 11,676 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Fallingbrook | 17,836 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Vallée-de-la-Lièvre | 15,388 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Queenswood - Chatelaine | 4,537 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Portobello South | 29,960 | 0 | 0 | — |
Cumberland in brief
Few of its homes are old, 13% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Cumberland’s history
How many historic places does Cumberland have on the registers?
Inside Cumberland, none so far; Masson railway station, 4.3 km away in Bassin-de-la-Lièvre, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Cumberland?
13% 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).