Photo: Community Archives · CC0Tweed from 1905 to 1936, in 4 old pictures
Homes from before 1961 make up 38% of Tweed’s stock, above the 18% of the typical town. The registers count 9 places within 50 km of Tweed; the closest, Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk), is 34 km away. For the highest designations, the closest town is Belleville, 34 km off. Of the 3 people born in Tweed before 1914, James Thomas Gordon came first.
Back in time: Tweed, 1905–1936
In order of date: 4 old photographs of the town. Swipe along the strip; each picture opens at full size.
c. 1905
c. 1908
c. 1930
c. 1936Public 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.
Within 50 km of Tweed, the record goes back to 1792
Out to 50 km from Tweed, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
Old Hay Bay Church, in Greater Napanee, goes back furthest, to 1792. The bars count 8 dated places within 50 km. Before Confederation: 5.
The closest heritage to Tweed is Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk), 34 km off
By age, Old Hay Bay Church leads, from 1792, at 47 km. Within 50 km there are 9 in all. They stand in 6 towns, Belleville, Greater Napanee and Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory among them.
The 9 nearest, within 50 km
| Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 34 km away, in Belleville |
| Glanmore / Phillips-Faulkner HouseNational Historic Site · 1882–1884 · 36 km away, in Belleville |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1909 · 36 km away, in Belleville |
| Napanee Town HallNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 37 km away, in Greater Napanee |
| Christ Church, Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the MohawkNational Historic Site · 1843–1844 · 37 km away, in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory |
| Mazinaw PictographsNational Historic Site · 47 km away, in North Frontenac |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Havelock, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1930 · 47 km away, in Havelock |
| Old Hay Bay ChurchNational Historic Site · 1792–1793 · 47 km away, in Greater Napanee |
| Trent – Severn WaterwayNational Historic Site · 1830–1921 · 48 km away, in Quinte West |
Tweed added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2.7%, where most towns have 4.1%
More than half of Tweed’s housing predates 1981. 23% of Tweed’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%. In Tweed, 24% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
3 lives that began in Tweed before 1914
At the other end is Review Raja, from 1901. Bert Wemp lived longest, to 87, dying in 1976. 4 Wikipedias cover Bert Wemp, the most of anyone here. It starts with James Thomas Gordon, born in 1859.
Everyone born in Tweed → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
How Tweed compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,500 to 6,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Kings County, Subdivision D, Mont-Joli, Battlefield, Pontiac and West Broadway. The middle one has 0. 11 of them have none.
Tweed and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tweed | 6,504 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Centre Hastings | 5,170 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Madoc | 2,467 | 0 | 0 | — |
Tweed in brief
Counted by age, 38% of Tweed’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The town’s people of the past are Bert Wemp (1889), James Thomas Gordon (1859) and Review Raja (1901). For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Tweed’s history
How many historic places does Tweed have on the registers?
Nothing inside Tweed; Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk) in Belleville, 34 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Tweed?
The 2021 Census dates 38% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).