Photo: Richard apple · CC BY-SA 3.0Before 1961: 33% of the homes in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
For Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, that is 1.9 times the typical town’s share, 18%. 38 places on the heritage registers lie within 100 km of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, the nearest Huron County Gaol, 12 km away. Heritage of the first rank begins 13 km away, in Goderich.
Around Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, within 100 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
Out to 100 km from Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
The chart rests on 33 dated places within 100 km. 10 go back before 1867. The oldest is Middlesex County Court House in Central London, from 1827.
38 places on Canada’s registers lie 100 km or less from Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
The record reaches back to 1827 with Middlesex County Court House, 100 km away. Nearest comes Huron County Gaol, 12 km off, in Goderich. They belong to 17 towns, chiefly Central London, Port Elgin and Waterloo.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Huron County GaolNational Historic Site · 1839–1842 · 12 km away, in Goderich |
| Goderich Branch, Huron County LibraryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1904 · 13 km away, in Goderich |
| Goderich Train StationDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1900 · 13 km away, in Goderich |
| Point Clark LighthouseNational Historic Site · 1856–1860 · 28 km away, in Huron-Kinloss |
| McNab Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1877–1878 · 73 km away, in Port Elgin |
| Stratford City HallNational Historic Site · 1898–1900 · 73 km away, in Stratford |
| Gallery StratfordDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1883 · 74 km away, in Stratford |
| Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Stratford, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914 · 74 km away, in Stratford |
| St. Marys Junction Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1858–1859 · 74 km away, in St. Marys |
| TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1855–1860 · 75 km away, in Port Elgin |
| St. MarysDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 75 km away, in St. Marys |
| ParkhillNational Historic Site · 76 km away, in Parkhill |
10% of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 21% of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh’s, against 27% in the typical town. Count back from today and half of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh’s homes are older than 1981. Building from 1981 to 2000 gave Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh 23% of its homes, near the usual 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh | 7,052 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Goderich | 8,412 | 3 | 1 | 1839 |
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh in brief
In Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, 33% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: it has no historic place, against 1 for the middle town its size.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- 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.
- 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.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
Questions about Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh’s history
How many historic places does Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh have on the registers?
None inside Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh yet. The nearest, Huron County Gaol, carries the highest designation, 12 km away in Goderich.
How old are the homes in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh?
The 2021 Census dates 33% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 2 more listings in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
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).