Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Alexandria, Ontario · Photo: Dr. Sarcasmo · CC BY-SA 3.0Alexandria’s share is 2.2 times the typical 18%. Inside the town the registers count 1 historic place. Relative to its size the figure is 0.9 per 10,000 residents, more than in 79% of Canadian towns. VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Alexandria, Ontario, from 1916, is the town’s heritage railway station.
A single date stands for Alexandria as a municipality on Wikidata, 1792, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. The first railway station on record, Alexandria railway station, opened in 1917.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
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Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Between them, 24 towns share them, mainly Papineauville, Wendover and Saint-André-d'Argenteuil. Oldest of them is Coteau-du-Lac (1779), 40 km off. The first one out is Ruin of St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Church, 13 km away in South Glengarry.
| Ruin of St. Raphael's Roman Catholic ChurchNational Historic Site · 1815–1822 · 13 km away, in South Glengarry |
| Sir John Johnson HouseNational Historic Site · 1784–1793 · 20 km away, in South Glengarry |
| Bethune-Thompson House / White HouseNational Historic Site · 1784–1805 · 20 km away, in South Glengarry |
| Glengarry HouseNational Historic Site · 1792–1793 · 30 km away, in South Glengarry |
| Inverarden HouseNational Historic Site · 1816–1824 · 30 km away, in Cornwall |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Casselman, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1938–1940 · 31 km away, in Casselman |
| L'Orignal JailDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1825 · 35 km away, in Vankleek Hill |
| Ancien hôtel de ville de RigaudMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1834 · 35 km away, in Rigaud |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Rigaud, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1940–1941 · 36 km away, in Rigaud |
| Maison du patrimoine de GrenvilleMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1820 · 36 km away, in Grenville |
| Église Saint-MungoMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1836 · 37 km away, in Brownsburg-Chatham |
| Macdonell-Williamson HouseNational Historic Site · 1817–1820 · 37 km away, in East Hawkesbury |
Only 10% of Alexandria’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. More than half of Alexandria’s housing predates 1981. In Alexandria, 24% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
John David MacRae lived longest, to 91, dying in 1967. There are 11 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. Fame, by Wikipedia: George Cattanach first, in 13 languages. Of the 11, 9 were born in the decades after Confederation.
Everyone born in Alexandria → 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 of 10,700 to 10,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Eastern Passage and Contrecoeur. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
In Alexandria, 39% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. George Cattanach (1878), Charles-Hugues Gauthier (1843) and Annie MacDonald Langstaff (1887) lead its people of the past. Beyond that, its designation dates from 1994.
The 2021 Census dates 39% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
1 historic place inside Alexandria, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
By its record, VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Alexandria, Ontario, from 1916 (Heritage Railway Station).
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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