Photo: Not specified · Public domainIn a 50 km circle around Peel: 10 places on the registers
From Peel, look 17 km away, to Wakefield, for the nearest place of the highest designation. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 2.1% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
Peel’s surroundings: 10 historic places within 50 km
By designation: 4 provincial or municipal listings, 3 National Historic Sites and 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. At 9.4 km, Florenceville Bridge in Florenceville-Bristol is the closest. Of the 3 of the highest rank, the nearest is Hartland Covered Bridge, 12 km away.
The 10 nearest, within 50 km
| Florenceville BridgeLocal historic place · 9.4 km away, in Florenceville-Bristol |
| Hartland Covered BridgeNational Historic Site · 1901–1902 · 12 km away, in Wakefield |
| Diggity SiteProvincial heritage place · 24 km away, in Kent |
| Old Carleton County Court HouseProvincial heritage place · 1833 · 26 km away, in Woodstock |
| L. P. Fisher Public LibraryLocal historic place · 1914 · 29 km away, in Woodstock |
| Government of Canada BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1955–1956 · 29 km away, in Woodstock |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1904–1906 · 29 km away, in Woodstock |
| Connell HouseNational Historic Site · 1839–1841 · 29 km away, in Woodstock |
| Mehtawtik (Meductic) VillageNational Historic Site · 45 km away, in Southampton |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Aroostook, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1906–1907 · 47 km away, in Tobique 20 |
From 1833 on: the dated places within 50 km of Peel
The nearest historic places to Peel, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
Old Carleton County Court House, in Woodstock, goes back furthest, to 1833. Dated places within 50 km: 7. 2 are older than 1867.
Old houses stand out in Peel: 25% predate 1961, where most towns have 18%
Over half of the homes in Peel were already standing by 1981. The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 33% of Peel’s homes. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 26% of Peel’s, about the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Peel and its neighbours
Peel in brief
Peel has 25% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- 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.
Questions about Peel’s history
How many historic places does Peel have on the registers?
Not inside Peel. The closest is Florenceville Bridge in Florenceville-Bristol, 9.4 km away.
How old are the homes in Peel?
25% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).