Photo: Peter Giesbrecht · CC BY-SA 3.0Older housing stands out in Aylmer: 33% predates 1961
For Aylmer, that is 1.9 times the typical town’s share, 18%. The registers count 7 places within 25 km of Aylmer; the closest, Former Canada Southern Railway Station, St. Thomas, Ontario, is 16 km away. Central Elgin, 14 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
From 1669 on: the dated places within 25 km of Aylmer
The area here stretches to 25 km around Aylmer: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Oldest of all: Port Stanley, Central Elgin, 1669. 7 dated places within 25 km make up the record. Before Confederation: 3.
Aylmer’s surroundings: 7 historic places within 25 km
Of the 3 of the highest rank, the nearest is St. Thomas City Hall, 17 km away. “Former Canada Southern Railway Station, St. Thomas, Ontario” in St. Thomas is the nearest, 16 km away. They belong to 4 towns, chiefly St. Thomas, Central Elgin and Bayham.
The 7 nearest, within 25 km
| Former Canada Southern Railway Station, St. Thomas, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1874 · 16 km away, in St. Thomas |
| St. Thomas City HallNational Historic Site · 1898–1900 · 17 km away, in St. Thomas |
| Old St. Thomas ChurchOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1824 · 18 km away, in St. Thomas |
| Port Burwell Marine Museum and Historic LighthouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1840 · 20 km away, in Bayham |
| Port StanleyNational Historic Site · 1669–1670 · 22 km away, in Central Elgin |
| Port Stanley Breakwater LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1911 · 23 km away, in Central Elgin |
| Annandale House (Tillsonburg Museum)National Historic Site · 1881–1883 · 24 km away, in Tillsonburg |
5.9% of Aylmer’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Half of the homes standing in Aylmer today were built before 1981. Few of Aylmer’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 10%, the norm 15%. 25% of Aylmer’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Aylmer compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,300 to 8,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Goderich, McNab/Braeside and Saint-Roch. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have none.
Aylmer and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aylmer | 8,371 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Malahide | 9,995 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Central Elgin | 15,230 | 1 | 1 | 1669 |
| Bayham | 7,935 | 1 | 0 | 1840 |
| St. Thomas | 49,388 | 4 | 1 | 1824 |
Aylmer in brief
Aylmer has 33% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. The rest is about typical: Charles Vance Millar (1854) is its person of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
Questions about Aylmer’s history
How many historic places does Aylmer have on the registers?
Not inside Aylmer. The closest is Former Canada Southern Railway Station, St. Thomas, Ontario in St. Thomas, 16 km away.
How old are the homes in Aylmer?
33% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).