Maison Hamilton · Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
5historic places on the registers
History of New Carlisle · Canada’s heritage registers
An older town: 46% of New Carlisle’s homes predate 1961
Most towns have 18%, so New Carlisle has 2.6 times as much. The registers put 5 historic places inside its boundary, one of them of the highest rank. The earliest construction date, 1838, belongs to Maison Thompson. Designations here include 3 municipal citations and a heritage railway station.
New Carlisle now and then, in 3 photos and 2 old views
Among them: Maison Hamilton and Centre culturel et d’interprétation Kempffer. There are photos here of 3 of New Carlisle’s designated places. Of the places pictured in New Carlisle, Maison Hamilton is the oldest, from 1852.
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
New Carlisle between 1866 and 1890
In order of date: 2 old photographs of the town. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
1875190019251950Before ConfederationConfederation to 1900Boom yearsThe wars and betweenAfter the war
Public 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.
How it began
New Carlisle’s first recorded year: 1877
Wikidata holds February 1, 1877 as the start of the municipality of New Carlisle, a date that can just as well be an incorporation. The name of New Carlisle honours Carlisle, city in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. Before 1969, New Carlisle went by New-Carlisle.
The first railway station on record, New Carlisle railway station, opened in 1947. In 1877 the municipality took over from Cox.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsOther federal designationsProvincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 5, by tier
1 Highest designations1 Other federal designations3 Provincial and local listings
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in New Carlisle with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Leading by designation: Maison René-Lévesque and “VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, New Carlisle, Quebec”.
Houses4
Stations, lighthouses and bridges1
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Provincial and local listings
On provincial and local lists in New Carlisle: 3 places
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The oldest, Maison Thompson, dates from 1838; the newest from 1868. Each one opens its own page.
Municipal citation (Québec) · 1838Maison Thompson105 boulevard Gérard-D.-Levesque
How old
For New Carlisle, most dated places belong to the years before Confederation
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
British North America 1760–18662
After Confederation 1867–19132
Wars and Depression 1914–19450
Since 1946 1946 on1
2 of the 5 dated places are older than Confederation.
Homes by age
46% of New Carlisle’s homes were built before 1961
From 2016 on, New Carlisle built 4.2% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. Only 9.2% of New Carlisle’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Few of New Carlisle’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 18%, the norm 23%.
46%
Before 1961
23%
1961–80
18%
1981–2000
9.2%
2001–15
4.2%
2016–21
New CarlisleTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Counted by age, 46% of New Carlisle’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 5 historic places, one with the highest designation, with Maison René-Lévesque first. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: people of its past such as Clarence Hamilton (1833) and Thomas Donnelly (1874); and its places were designated between 1994 and 2012.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
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The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
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Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
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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.
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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.
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Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
Questions about New Carlisle’s history
How old are the homes in New Carlisle?
46% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Which places in New Carlisle have the highest designation?
Just one: Maison René-Lévesque.
What is the oldest building in New Carlisle?
By its record, Maison Thompson, from 1838 (Municipal citation (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.
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