List of National Historic Sites of Canada in New Brunswick

This is a list of National Historic Sites of Canada (French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) in the province of New Brunswick. There are 62 National Historic Sites designated in New Brunswick, 8 of which are administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ). The first National Historic Sites to be designated in New Brunswick were Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland and Fort Gaspareaux in 1920.

This list uses names designated by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, which may differ from other names for these sites.

National Historic Sites

Site	Date(s)	Designated	Location	Description	Image
1 Chipman Hill	1854 (c.) (completed)	1984	Saint John	Symbolic of upper-middle class urban housing in Saint John during the mid-19th century; features a variety of decorative trompe-l'œil wall and ceiling murals
Arts Building	1827 (completed)	1951	Fredericton	A classically-inspired masonry structure at the University of New Brunswick; the oldest university building in Canada still in continuous use
Augustine Mound	500 (c.) BCE (established)	1975	Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation	A circular ritual site surrounding a burial mound; a sacred site representative of Mi'kmaq spirituality, exhibiting Adena burial rituals
Beaubears Island Shipbuilding	1790 (established)	2001	Miramichi	A 24-hectare (59-acre) site featuring the remains of an early 19th-century shipyard
Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home	1820 (completed)	1975	Lincoln	A large neoclassical country house associated with Robert Duncan Wilmot, a Father of Confederation
Boishébert	1756 (camp established)	1930	Miramichi	The site of a camp on Beaubears Island where Acadians, under the leadership of Charles Deschamps de Boishébert, sought refuge from 1756 to 1760 during the Expulsion of the Acadians
Carleton Martello Tower	1815 (completed)	1930	Saint John	A martello tower located across the harbour from downtown Saint John, built to protect the city from an American land attack during the War of 1812; representative of the type of coastal defence used by the British during the Napoleonic era
Chandler House / Rocklyn	1831 (completed)	1971	Dorchester	A Classical Revival-style house associated with Edward Barron Chandler, a Father of Confederation
Charlotte County Court House	1840 (completed)	1981	St. Andrews	A simple wood-frame courthouse with a pedimented portico; the best preserved example in New Brunswick of the typical mid-19th century Maritime courthouse
Christ Church Anglican	1856 (completed)	1990	Maugerville	A wooden church illustrative of the eccclesiological phase of Gothic Revival architecture in Canada
Christ Church Cathedral	1853 (completed)	1981	Fredericton	A cathedral whose spire is a landmark in the historic centre of Fredericton; one of the best examples of ecclesiological Gothic Revival architecture in Canada, and one which established an architectural pattern followed in the design of many churches in 19th-century Canada
Connell House	1840 (completed)	1975	Woodstock	A Greek Revival wooden mansion distinguished by a double-height columned verandah; in the early 19th century, large homes inspired by classical temples were common in the United States, but comparatively rare in Canada
Denys Fort / Habitation	1600s (c.) (established)	1952	Shippagan	Archaeological remains of a 17th-century French trading post
Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland	1751 (established)	1920	Aulac	A star-shaped fort that defended French interests in the Chignecto isthmus; after its capture by the British in 1755, the fort repulsed an attack by American revolutionary sympathizers in 1776, which contributed to keeping Nova Scotia in the British Empire
Fort Charnisay	1645 (established)	1923	Saint John	The site of a succession of military forts between 1645 and 1775 due to its strategic position on the western edge of the city’s harbour and overlooking the Saint John River; today the site is marked by a cairn and a boulder
Fort Gaspareaux	1751 (established)	1920	Port Elgin	An archaeological site containing traces of a French fort; symbolic of the struggle between France and Britain for North America in the 1750s
Fort Howe	1777 (established)	1966	Saint John	The partial reconstruction of a fort that guarded Saint John from the American Revolutionary War through to the War of 1812; the fort's designation as a National Historic Park in 1914 marked the beginning of Canada's emerging system of National Historic Sites
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Fort Nashwaak (Naxoat)	1691 (established)	1924	Fredericton	The site of a French fort that had once sat at the mouth of the Nashwaak River where it meets the Saint John River; the base of many raids against New England, one of which resulted in the Siege of Pemaquid in 1696
Fort Nerepis	1659 (fort established)	1930	Grand Bay–Westfield	A cairn marking the approximate site of a fortified Maliseet stronghold, and then a small French fort, at the confluence of the Nerepis River and Saint John River; the remains of the fortifications and their precise locations have never been found
Fredericton City Hall	1876 (completed)	1984	Fredericton	A three-storey, Second Empire style town hall; the oldest municipal hall in Atlantic Canada still used for civic administration
Fredericton Military Compound	1784 (established)	1960	Fredericton	An important grouping of British colonial-era military buildings, which has served as premises for both military and government institutions for over 200 years
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Greenock Church	1824 (completed)	1994	St. Andrews	A church noteworthy for its role in the development of Presbyterianism in New Brunswick; an excellent example of the Palladian style in Canadian church architecture
Gibson Family Plot	c. 1913 (begun)	2010	Fredericton	Headstones of Alexander "Boss" Gibson, his wife and their family members, totaling 27 stones, arranged in a circle. The central stones are intricately carved from white granite.
Hammond House	1889 (completed)	1990	Sackville	A house built for artist John A. Hammond and now located on the campus of Mount Allison University; an excellent example of the Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian domestic architecture
Hartland Covered Bridge	1921 (completed)	1980	Hartland	A wooden covered bridge crossing the Saint John River; the longest existing covered bridge in the world
Imperial / Bi-Capitol Theatre	1913 (completed)	1985	Saint John	An early 20th-century theatre facing onto King's Square; a nationally-significant example of a theatre built specifically for live performances
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Loyalist House	1817 (completed)	1958	Saint John	An excellent example of New England-style Federal architecture, and representative of the houses built by prosperous United Empire Loyalists; one of the oldest residences in the city and a survivor of the Great Fire, the house was maintained by five generations of the same family until 1959
Marine Hospital	1831 (completed)	1989	Miramichi	A sandstone building with a domed cupola, overlooking the Miramichi River; the oldest surviving marine hospital in Canada
Marysville Cotton Mill	1885 (completed)	1986	Fredericton	A four-storey, red-brick cotton mill building with a central tower; representative of the brick pier mills that were common in the Canadian textile industry
Marysville Historic District	1840 (c.) (established)	1993	Fredericton	A former industrial community on the banks of the Nashwaak River; a rare surviving example of a 19th-century, single-industry company town with both its plant and company housing intact
McAdam Railway Station (Canadian Pacific)	1901 (completed)	1976	McAdam	A stone, Chateau-style railway station and hotel; associated with the period of the rapid growth of the Canadian Pacific Railway and a rare surviving example of a combined station and hotel
Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic	1600s (c.)	1924	Meductic	The principal settlement of the Maliseet in the 17th century, and an important fur trading centre; the construction of the Mactaquac Dam in 1968 flooded the site, and the cairn marking the site was moved to nearby Fort Meductic Road
Minister's Island	1889 (estate established)	1996	St. Andrews	The picturesque summer estate and gentleman’s farm of William Cornelius Van Horne on a 280-hectare (690-acre) island in Passamaquoddy Bay
Minister's Island Pre-contact Sites	1000 (c.) BCE (established)	1978	St. Andrews	Archaeological sites containing the remains of four houses and a shell midden originating from a coastal winter settlement
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Monument Lefebvre	1856 (completed)	1994	Memramcook	Built in memory of Camille Lefebvre, who founded the first French language institution to confer university degrees in Atlantic Canada; now serves as an Acadian cultural centre
Number 2 Mechanics' Volunteer Company Engine House	1841 (completed)	1995	Saint John	The oldest remaining fire hall in Canada built to house hand-operated pumper fire engines; symbolic of the early phase in fire fighting in Canada when volunteer fire companies were the primary line of defence against fires in Victorian-era cities
Old Government House	1828 (completed)	1958	Fredericton	The stone Palladian-style official residence of the Lieutenant Governor; the location of a historic 1866 meeting between Governor Arthur Gordon and Premier Albert James Smith which paved the way for the colony's entry into Confederation
Ordnance Building	1842 (built)	2015	St. John	Rare colonial-era military ordnance building, it survived the Great Fire of 1877
Oxbow	1000 BCE (c.) (community established)	1982	Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation	A site where stratified archaeological resources are buried in the silts and gravels of the Little Southwest Miramichi River bank; a unique cultural record of a 3000-year Mi’kmaq community
Partridge Island Quarantine Station	1830 (established)	1974	Saint John	One of two major quarantine stations in Canada in the 19th century, established to protect the citizenry from contagious diseases carried by passengers and crews of in-coming ships
Prince William Streetscape	1877 (construction after Great Fire)	1981	Saint John	A concentration of architecturally notable late 19th-century public and commercial buildings within a two-block area
Rothesay Railway Station (European and North American)	1860 (completed)	1976	Rothesay	A railway station with stationmaster's quarters on the second storey; commemorates the development of railways in the Maritimes and is a good surviving example of a number two standard station designed by the European and North American Railway
Saint John City Market	1876 (completed)	1986	Saint John	A rare and notable surviving example of a 19th-century market building
Saint John County Court House	1829 (completed)	1974	Saint John	A neoclassical court house typical of early-19th-century, British public buildings in Canada; representative of the judicial system in the province
Seal Cove Smoked Herring Stands	1870 (established)	1995	Grand Manan Island	54 wooden buildings surrounding a cove bounded by breakwaters; a cultural landscape once typical of the Maritimes, but increasingly rare today, and evocative of the Atlantic herring fishery
St. Andrews Blockhouse	1813 (completed)	1962	St Andrews	One of the few surviving Canadian examples of a War of 1812 blockhouse; built by the citizens of St. Andrews to protect the town from American raiders
St. Andrews Historic District	1783 (town founded)	1962	St Andrews	A grid of sixty blocks comprising the original part of the present town; a fine example of a town in Canada that still reflects an 18th-century British colonial town plan
St. Anne's Chapel of Ease	1847 (completed)	1989	Fredericton	A small Gothic Revival stone church reflective of the influence of the principles of the Cambridge Camden Society in Canada
St. John's Anglican Church / Stone Church	1826 (completed)	1989	Saint John	An early Anglican church; one of the earliest examples of this first phase of the Gothic Revival style in Canada, known as Romantic Gothic Revival
St. Luke's Anglican Church	1833 (completed)	1994	Quispamsis	A wooden church that represents one of the best examples of an Anglican church in Canada that reflects the architectural traditions of James Gibbs and Christopher Wren
St. Paul's United Church	1886 (completed)	1990	Fredericton	A former Presbyterian, now United, church; it is an excellent example of the High Victorian Gothic Revival style in Canada
St. Stephen Post Office	1887 (completed)	1983	St. Stephen	A Romanesque Revival building constructed for the local post office, customs offices and internal revenue offices, and having served as the town hall since 1965, it is a fine example of the small urban post offices designed by Thomas Fuller
Tilley House	1810 (completed)	1965	Gagetown	A clapboard house that was the birthplace and boyhood home of Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, a Father of Confederation
Tonge's Island	1678 (established as capital)	1925	Sackville	A settlement established in 1676 by Michel Leneuf de la Vallière, which served as the capital of Acadia from 1678 to 1684
Trinity Church and Rectory	1789 (completed)	1977	Kingston	The oldest surviving Anglican church in New Brunswick and a rare Maritimes example of a church and rectory surviving as a unit
William Brydone Jack Observatory	1851 (completed)	1954	Fredericton	A wooden, octagonal tower that was the first astronomical observatory in Canada
Wolastoq (Saint John River)		2011	Section of the Saint John River between Edmundston and the Bay of Fundy	A river that played an important role in 10,000 years of Maliseet history and 400 years of European settlement
York County Court House	1858 (completed)	1980	Fredericton	The earliest surviving New Brunswick court house constructed of brick

See also

• History of New Brunswick
• List of historic places in New Brunswick
• Heritage Conservation Act (New Brunswick)