Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1931–1932Building 51
Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.011historic places on the registers
History of Quinte West · Canada’s heritage registers
The registers record 11 historic places in Quinte West
Go back to 1931 in Quinte West and you reach Building 51, the oldest of its places. For the municipality itself, Wikidata has January 1, 1998, which can be an incorporation or a merger rather than a founding. Relative to its size Quinte West has 2.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 87% of Canadian towns. Designations here include 11 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings.
Historic places
11
2.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
11
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1931
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
27%
typical town: 18%
Through time
Back in time: Quinte West, 1900–1913
On one line by date: 6 old photographs of the town. A tap on any picture opens it with its credit.
c. 1900
c. 1900
c. 1900
c. 1907
c. 1912
1913Public 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 Quinte West’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
The 11, by tier
11 Other federal designations
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. 11 places, placed by their register’s municipality, have no point and aren’t on the map.
Other federal designations
Federal heritage in Quinte West: 11 more places
They were designated between 1991 and 2004. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. The oldest, Building 51, dates from 1931; the newest from 1961. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1932–1933Building 22
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1933–1935Building 29
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1933–1935Officer's Quarters
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1936–1937Building 21
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1936–1937Officers' Mess
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1937–1938Building 23
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1937–1938Building 56CFB Trenton
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1939–1940VIP Private Married Quarters18 Caribou Crescent
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1953–19549 Hangar84 North Star Drive
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1961–196310 Hangar52 North Star Drive, 8 Wing, CFB Trenton
What’s designated
Quinte West’s record leans to forts and military buildings: 82%
Next come public buildings: 2. At the head of the list: Building 51 and Building 22.
Forts and military buildings9
Public buildings2
Kinds read from each place’s name and the functions its register gives; a building keeps the kind it was built as.
How old
In Quinte West, the wars and the Depression left the most behind
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
British North America 1760–18660
After Confederation 1867–19130
Wars and Depression 1914–19459
Since 1946 1946 on2
When designated
1995 was Quinte West’s big year on the registers
The places by the year of their designation.
1995 · 8
198020002020
It began with Building 51 in 1991. In 1995 alone, 8 were designated. Nothing has been added since 2011.
Just outside
Just outside Quinte West
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
Just outside Quinte West: 1
| Trent – Severn WaterwayNational Historic Site · 100 m outside the town |
Homes by age
27% of Quinte West’s homes are older than 1961, against a usual 18%
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 make up 6.6% of Quinte West’s, above the typical 4.1%. The busiest building years in Quinte West were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 35% of today’s homes. Half of the homes standing in Quinte West today were built before 1981.
27%
Before 1961
35%
1961–80
20%
1981–2000
12%
2001–15
6.6%
2016–21
Quinte WestTypical 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
Quinte West’s people of the past, born 1818–1892
Of them all, William Bleasdell Cameron lived longest: 89 years, until 1951. Before 1914, 8 births here made the record. Best known is George Copway, with articles in 5 Wikipedia languages. The years before Confederation gave 4 of the 8.
George Copway
Alexander Robertson
William Frederick Meyers
William Bleasdell Cameron
William Henry Ireland
Charles Archibald MacLellan
William Alexander Fraser
Angus McGill Mowat
1800182518501875190019251950
George Copway1818–1869 · Ojibwe writer
AR
Alexander Robertson1838–1888 · Canadian politician
WF
William Alexander Fraser1886–1962 · Canadian politician
Angus McGill Mowat1892–1977
William Bleasdell Cameron1862–1951 · Canadian survivor of the Frog Lake Massacre
WI
William Henry Ireland1883–1962 · Ontario (Canada) merchant and politician
Charles Archibald MacLellan1885–1961 · American painter
WM
William Frederick Meyers1848–1912 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Quinte West → 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
Quinte West has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 48,500 to 52,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Quinte West11
Only Rimouski has more. The middle one has 0. 9 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Quinte West and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quinte West | 50,385 | 11 | 0 | 1931 |
| Belleville | 62,914 | 4 | 2 | 1856 |
| Brighton | 12,900 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Quinte West in brief
Quinte West has 27% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 11 historic places in all. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Count them by kind and forts and military buildings lead, 82%.
Of the 11 with a date, 9 come from the wars and the Depression. Its people of the past include George Copway (1818), Alexander Robertson (1838) and William Alexander Fraser (1886). More than half went on the registers in a single year, 1995: 8 of 11.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
Questions about Quinte West’s history
How many historic places does Quinte West have on the registers?
11 historic places inside Quinte West, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Quinte West?
Building 51 — its record dates it to 1931 (Recognized Federal Heritage Building).
How old are the homes in Quinte West?
27% 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).