Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Panmure Head Lighthouse · Photo: chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0Canada’s heritage registers list 2 historic places inside Three Rivers, one with the highest designation. Relative to its size the figure is 2.1 per 10,000 residents, more than in 87% of Canadian towns. The list takes in a heritage lighthouse. Wikidata knows 72 more provincial or municipal listings here that get no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article.
7 former municipalities came before the present municipality. On Wikidata the municipality of Three Rivers dates to September 28, 2018, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Charlottetown, Belfast and West River hold most of them, among 7 towns. Count to 50 km and there are 22. Great George Street Historic District, 40 km off, is the nearest of 12 top-tier places.
| Cape Bear LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1881 · 23 km away, in Murray River, Part 1 |
| Wood Islands LighthouseDesignated heritage place · 1876 · 28 km away, in Belfast |
| St. Peters Harbour LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1878 · 31 km away, in Morell |
| Souris East LighthouseDesignated heritage place · 1881 · 33 km away, in Souris |
| Point Prim LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1845 · 35 km away, in Belfast |
| Great George Street Historic DistrictNational Historic Site · 1864 · 40 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Blockhouse Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1876–1877 · 40 km away, in West River |
| St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic BasilicaNational Historic Site · 1896–1908 · 40 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Province HouseNational Historic Site · 1839–1848 · 40 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Dundas TerraceNational Historic Site · 1889–1890 · 40 km away, in Charlottetown |
| FairholmNational Historic Site · 1839–1840 · 40 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Apothecaries HallNational Historic Site · 1900–1901 · 40 km away, in Charlottetown |
More of Three Rivers’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 29%. At 26%, Three Rivers’s share of pre-1961 homes is above the typical town’s 18%. Half of the homes standing in Three Rivers today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The widest known is Andrew Archibald Macdonald: 8 Wikipedia editions. Andrew Archibald Macdonald carries a national designation as a historic person. At the other end is John Augustine Macdonald, from 1913. Of them all, James McEachern lived longest: 88 years, until 1969.
Everyone born in Three Rivers → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 9,300 to 9,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Boischatel, Downtown Commercial Core and La Pêche. The typical town its size has 0. 9 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Rivers | 9,322 | 2 | 1 | 1732 |
| Murray River, Part 1 | 1,638 | 0 | 0 | — |
The 2021 Census dates 26% of Three Rivers’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 2 historic places, one with the highest designation, led by “Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers, P. E. I.”. Just 3 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Among the lives from its past: Andrew Archibald Macdonald (1829), Augustine Colin Macdonald (1837) and James David Stewart (1874). Everything else is close to the norm: the designations ran from 1933 to 2015.
By its record, Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers, P. E. I., from 1732 (National Historic Site).
Just one: Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers, P. E. I..
26% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 72 more listings in Three Rivers, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
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).
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