TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1859–1860Hôtel de ville de Huntingdon23 rue KingPhoto: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Bureau d'enregistrement de Huntingdon · Photo: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.03historic places on the registers
History of Huntingdon · Canada’s heritage registers
Older housing stands out in Huntingdon: 56% predates 1961
Huntingdon has 3.2 times what the typical town has (18%). All told the heritage lists hold 3 historic places within the town, and 2 sit in the top tier. Scaled to its population the record is long: 10 per 10,000 residents, more than 98% of Canadian towns. Its oldest building on the record is Hôtel de ville de Huntingdon, from 1859.
Historic places
3
10 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
2
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
1
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1859
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
56%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
See all 2 of Huntingdon’s places with the highest designations
Look out for Bureau d'enregistrement de Huntingdon and Hôtel de ville de Huntingdon. All of Huntingdon’s designated places are pictured.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Through time
The old face of Huntingdon
One picture from before 1950: one old photograph of the town. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1910Public 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 Huntingdon’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 3, by tier
2 Highest designations1 Provincial and local listings
Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
2 places in Huntingdon with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Hôtel de ville de Huntingdon is the earliest, from 1859; the latest dates from 1922. Each one opens its own page.
TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1922Bureau d'enregistrement de Huntingdon25 rue KingPhoto: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Provincial and local listings
One more place Huntingdon or its province protects
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1915Édifice O'Connor64 rue ChâteauguayPhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Homes by age
A growing town: 7.1% of Huntingdon’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Only 0.8% of Huntingdon’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Huntingdon built little from 1981 to 2000: 9.5% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Half of the homes standing in Huntingdon today were built before 1961.
56%
Before 1961
25%
1961–80
9.5%
1981–2000
0.8%
2001–15
7.1%
2016–21
HuntingdonTypical 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
Huntingdon’s 8 natives of the years before 1914
The years before Confederation gave 6 of the 8. It starts with Thomas J. Higgins, born in 1831. By Wikipedia’s reach, William Henry McGarvey leads, with 4 articles. Émile Brunet closes the list, born in 1893.
Thomas J. Higgins
Charles Peers Davidson
William Henry McGarvey
James Robb
Robert Nelson Walsh
Edmond Baird Ryckman
James Thomas Brown
Émile Brunet
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William Henry McGarvey1843–1914 · Canadian businessman
James Robb1859–1929 · Canadian politician
Robert Nelson Walsh1864–1938 · Canadian politician
Charles Peers Davidson1841–1929 · Canadian judge
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Edmond Baird Ryckman1866–1934 · Canadian politician
Émile Brunet1893–1977 · Canadian sculptor
Thomas J. Higgins1831–1917 · United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
James Thomas Brown1871–1957 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Huntingdon → 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
Huntingdon has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,000 to 3,000 residents, by places on the registers.
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Only Stanstead and Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard have more. The typical town its size has 0. 12 of them have none.
Neighbours
Huntingdon and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntingdon | 3,001 | 3 | 2 | 1859 |
| Godmanchester | 1,590 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hinchinbrooke | 2,350 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Barbe | 1,993 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka | 2,162 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ormstown | 4,259 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Anicet | 2,854 | 1 | 1 | — |
In brief
Huntingdon in brief
Huntingdon has 56% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 3 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, including Hôtel de ville de Huntingdon. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are William Henry McGarvey (1843), James Robb (1859) and Robert Nelson Walsh (1864). For the rest, its places were designated between 1984 and 2009.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- Québec’s register. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Huntingdon’s history
How old are the homes in Huntingdon?
Before 1961: 56% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Huntingdon have the highest designation?
These: Hôtel de ville de Huntingdon and Bureau d'enregistrement de Huntingdon.
What is the oldest building in Huntingdon?
Hôtel de ville de Huntingdon — its record dates it to 1859 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada). Québec register data: Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, CC BY 4.0.
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec (MCC, Données Québec) · 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).