LocalDesignated heritage placeO'Leary railway stationPhoto: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Commons file
O'Leary railway station · Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.01historic place on the registers
History of O'Leary · Canada’s heritage registers
1 historic place on the heritage registers in O'Leary
Before 1961: 33% of O'Leary’s homes, where most towns have 18%. Building from 2016 to 2021 gave it 6.6% of its homes, where most towns have 4.1%.
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
Homes built before 1961
33%
typical town: 18%
Through time
Looking back at O'Leary
One picture from before 1950: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Open it full screen with a tap.
1914Public 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 O'Leary’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
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 O'Leary: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The heritage closest to O'Leary: West Point Lighthouse, at 16 km
They are 4 provincial or municipal listings, a heritage lighthouse and a National Historic Site. Alberton Court House, 17 km off, is the one top-tier place. Count to 25 km and there are 6.
The 6 nearest, within 25 km
| West Point LighthouseDesignated heritage place · 1876 · 16 km away, in O'Leary |
| Northport Rear Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1885 · 16 km away, in Alberton |
| St. Brigid's Church, Prince Edward IslandRegistered Heritage Place · 1873 · 16 km away, in Central Prince |
| Alberton Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1877–1879 · 17 km away, in Alberton |
| Alberton Railway StationDesignated heritage place · 17 km away, in Alberton |
| Holy Trinity Anglican ChurchRegistered Heritage Place · 1890 · 20 km away, in Alberton |
Homes by age
33% of O'Leary’s homes were built before 1961
More than half of O'Leary’s housing predates 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave O'Leary 22% of its homes, near the usual 27%. In O'Leary, 26% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
33%
Before 1961
22%
1961–80
26%
1981–2000
12%
2001–15
6.6%
2016–21
O'LearyTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
O'Leary and its neighbours
In brief
O'Leary in brief
Before 1961: 33% of O'Leary’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- 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.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- 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.
- 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 O'Leary’s history
How many historic places does O'Leary have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside O'Leary.
How old are the homes in O'Leary?
The 2021 Census dates 33% 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).