Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Algonquin Highlands, 23 historic places within 100 km
The nearest town to Algonquin Highlands with a top designation is Highlands East, 40 km away. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 5.9% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
23 places on Canada’s registers lie 100 km or less from Algonquin Highlands
Oldest of them is Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons Mission (1639), 95 km off. Closest of all is Wilberforce Red Cross Outpost, in Highlands East, 42 km off. Between them, 15 towns share them, mainly Peterborough, Tay and Orillia.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Wilberforce Red Cross OutpostNational Historic Site · 1914–1917 · 42 km away, in Highlands East |
| Woodchester VillaOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1882 · 44 km away, in Bracebridge |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Huntsville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1924–1925 · 45 km away, in Huntsville |
| Bethune Memorial HouseNational Historic Site · 1880–1881 · 52 km away, in Gravenhurst |
| Canal Lake Concrete Arch BridgeNational Historic Site · 1905–1906 · 63 km away, in Lindsay |
| Mnjikaning Fish WeirsNational Historic Site · 1650 · 73 km away, in Ramara |
| Stephen Leacock Museum / Old Brewery BayNational Historic Site · 1928–1929 · 74 km away, in Orillia |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Orillia, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 75 km away, in Orillia |
| Peterborough PetroglyphsNational Historic Site · 77 km away, in North Kawartha |
| Old Stone ChurchNational Historic Site · 1840–1854 · 79 km away, in Beaverton |
| Mission of St. Ignace IINational Historic Site · 1649 · 86 km away, in Tay |
| Saint-Louis MissionNational Historic Site · 1640 · 90 km away, in Tay |
The places within 100 km of Algonquin Highlands lean to the decades after Confederation
The nearest historic places to Algonquin Highlands, out to 100 km, by the first construction date on each record.
Dated places within 100 km: 20. 9 are older than 1867. Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons Mission, in Tay, goes back furthest, to 1639.
Most of Algonquin Highlands’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 29%
21% of Algonquin Highlands’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. Over half of the homes in Algonquin Highlands were already standing by 2001. In Algonquin Highlands, 27% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Algonquin Highlands compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,900 to 2,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Moosomin. Their median is 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.
Algonquin Highlands and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Highlands | 2,915 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Minden Hills | 7,841 | 0 | 0 | — |
Algonquin Highlands in brief
Older stock first: 21% of homes in Algonquin Highlands were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0. For the rest, one person of its past, Donald "Curly" Phillips (1884).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Questions about Algonquin Highlands’s history
How many historic places does Algonquin Highlands have on the registers?
None in Algonquin Highlands itself. The closest is Wilberforce Red Cross Outpost in Highlands East, 42 km away, a place of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Algonquin Highlands?
The 2021 Census dates 21% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).