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D.A. Gillies Building · Photo: P199 · CC BY 2.5That place is D.A. Gillies Building, a national historic site, from 1896. Arnprior has 0.9 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 78% of Canadian towns. More of its homes are old than in most towns: 31% before 1961, against 18%.
3 old photographs of the town, in date order. A tap on any picture opens it with its credit.
c. 1894
c. 1906
1939Public 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.
As a municipality, Arnprior carries the date 1851 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. The municipality of Arnprior was incorporated as a village in 1862.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Arnprior”, revision 1376159392 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Gillies Grove and House in McNab/Braeside is the nearest, 1.6 km away. They belong to 17 towns, chiefly Des Explorateurs, Les Golfs and Chelsea. The oldest, Saint James cemetery, dates from 1820, 49 km away.
| Gillies Grove and HouseNational Historic Site · 1937–1938 · 1.6 km away, in McNab/Braeside |
| Rosamond Woollen MillNational Historic Site · 1866–1901 · 26 km away, in Almonte |
| Diefenbunker / Central Emergency Government HeadquartersNational Historic Site · 1959–1962 · 26 km away, in Carp |
| Former Almonte Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1889–1892 · 26 km away, in Almonte |
| Prime Minister's CottageRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1925–1926 · 36 km away, in Pontiac |
| Herridge ChaletRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 36 km away, in Pontiac |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1921–1923 · 37 km away, in Carleton Place |
| Maison Bolton-McGrathMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1842 · 38 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Cimetière EdeyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 38 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Maison Delormey-EdeyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1890 · 38 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Maison James-Finlayson-TaylorMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1842–1843 · 39 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Maison William-McLeanMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1865 · 39 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
Arnprior has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 21%, where most towns have 15%. Few of Arnprior’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 19%, the norm 27%. Over half of the homes in Arnprior were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The line ends with Ernie Staveneau (1893). In 1848 came the earliest, James Hartney. Of them all, Fred Kelly lived longest: 87 years, until 1974.
Everyone born in Arnprior → 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 11,400 to 11,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Banff. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnprior | 11,459 | 1 | 1 | 1896 |
| McNab/Braeside | 8,340 | 1 | 1 | 1937 |
| Bristol | 1,151 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Kinburn | 2,639 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Fitzroy | 6,400 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Horton | 3,550 | 0 | 0 | — |
The pre-1961 share of Arnprior’s homes is 31%, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, with D.A. Gillies Building first. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. The town’s people of the past are James Hartney (1848), Fred Kelly (1887) and Ernie Staveneau (1893). The rest is about typical: its designation dates from 2024.
It is D.A. Gillies Building.
Before 1961: 31% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
D.A. Gillies Building, a National Historic Site, begun in 1896.
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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