LocalRegistered Heritage Place · 1890Holy Trinity Anglican ChurchPhoto: Thelma A Phillips · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Holy Trinity Anglican Church · Photo: Thelma A Phillips · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Alberton · Canada’s heritage registers
Alberton’s past, on the record: 1 historic place
In Alberton that place is Holy Trinity Anglican Church, a registered heritage place, from 1890. Outside the boundary but close by, there is one more. 21 further listings on provincial or municipal registers are known only through Wikidata, so they have no page of their own.
Historic places
1
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1890
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
19%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Alberton’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Alberton: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Alberton’s surroundings: 7 historic places within 25 km
They stand in 4 towns, Tignish, Alberton and O'Leary among them. The first one out is Alberton Court House, 4.7 km away in Alberton. By age, “St. Brigid's Church, Prince Edward Island” leads, from 1873, at 15 km.
The 7 nearest, within 25 km
| Alberton Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1877–1879 · 4.7 km away, in Alberton |
| Alberton Railway StationDesignated heritage place · 4.7 km away, in Alberton |
| O'Leary railway stationDesignated heritage place · 13 km away, in O'Leary |
| St. Brigid's Church, Prince Edward IslandRegistered Heritage Place · 1873 · 15 km away, in Central Prince |
| Immaculate Conception ChurchRegistered Heritage Place · 17 km away, in Tignish |
| St. Simon & St. Jude ChurchRegistered Heritage Place · 18 km away, in Tignish |
| Convent of Notre Dame-des-AngesRegistered Heritage Place · 18 km away, in Tignish |
Just outside Alberton: 1
| Northport Rear Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 700 m outside the town |
Homes by age
The biggest share of Alberton’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 30%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 20% of Alberton’s, against 15% in the typical town. 19% of Alberton’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. From 2016 to 2021 Alberton added 4.4% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%.
19%
Before 1961
30%
1961–80
27%
1981–2000
20%
2001–15
4.4%
2016–21
AlbertonTypical 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
From 1822 to 1887: lives that began in Alberton
4 people on the record were born here before 1914. Fame, by Wikipedia: George N. Gordon first, in 3 languages. At 99, Millie Gamble outlived the rest, dying in 1986.
George N. Gordon
Joseph-Octave Arsenault
James Gordon
Millie Gamble
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GG
George N. Gordon1822–1861 · Canadian missionary
JA
Joseph-Octave Arsenault1828–1897 · Canadian politician
MG
Millie Gamble1887–1986 · Canadian photographer
JG
James Gordon1832–1872 · Scottish-Canadian missionary to the New Hebrides
Everyone born in Alberton → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Neighbours
Alberton and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alberton | 2,426 | 1 | 0 | 1890 |
| Alberton | 1,498 | 2 | 1 | 1877 |
| Miminegash | 1,166 | 0 | 0 | — |
| O'Leary | 2,878 | 0 | 0 | — |
| O'Leary | 1,021 | 1 | 0 | — |
In brief
Alberton in brief
Housing in Alberton includes 19% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all. Its people of the past include George N. Gordon (1822), Joseph-Octave Arsenault (1828) and Millie Gamble (1887).
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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.
- 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. 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. 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.
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
Questions about Alberton’s history
How many historic places does Alberton have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Alberton, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Alberton?
Holy Trinity Anglican Church — its record dates it to 1890 (Registered Heritage Place).
Why might a heritage building in Alberton be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 21 more listings in Alberton are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
How old are the homes in Alberton?
19% 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).