LocalDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1840Port Burwell Marine Museum and Historic LighthousePhoto: Peter Giesbrecht · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Port Burwell Marine Museum and Historic Lighthouse · Photo: Peter Giesbrecht · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Bayham · Canada’s heritage registers
An older town: 37% of Bayham’s homes predate 1961
For Bayham, that is 2.1 times the typical town’s share, 18%. All told, the heritage lists hold 1 historic place within the town. Measured against its size, 1.3 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 81% of Canadian towns. Port Burwell Marine Museum and Historic Lighthouse, from 1840, is the town’s designated heritage property (part iv).
Historic places
1
1.3 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1840
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
37%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Bayham’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
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.
Provincial and local listings
One more place Bayham or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The heritage closest to Bayham: Annandale House (Tillsonburg Museum), at 16 km
They belong to 13 towns, chiefly Central London, Simcoe and St. Thomas. Southwold Earthworks, 45 km off, is the oldest: 1450. The registers hold 28 within 50 km.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Annandale House (Tillsonburg Museum)National Historic Site · 1881–1883 · 16 km away, in Tillsonburg |
| Backhouse Grist MillNational Historic Site · 1798–1799 · 30 km away, in Simcoe |
| Former Canada Southern Railway Station, St. Thomas, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1874 · 31 km away, in St. Thomas |
| St. Thomas City HallNational Historic Site · 1898–1900 · 31 km away, in St. Thomas |
| Old St. Thomas ChurchOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1824 · 32 km away, in St. Thomas |
| Port StanleyNational Historic Site · 1669–1670 · 33 km away, in Central Elgin |
| Port Stanley Breakwater LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1911 · 34 km away, in Central Elgin |
| Fort NorfolkNational Historic Site · 1814–1816 · 40 km away, in Simcoe |
| Lynnwood/Campbell-Reid HouseNational Historic Site · 1850–1852 · 43 km away, in Simcoe |
| Aeolian HallDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1884 · 44 km away, in East London |
| Christ Church (Anglican)Designated heritage property (part IV) · 1863 · 44 km away, in Central London |
| WaverleyDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1882 · 44 km away, in South London |
Homes by age
37% of Bayham’s homes were built before 1961
More than half of Bayham’s housing predates 1981. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 3.5% of Bayham’s, about the typical 4.1%. Bayham built little from 1961 to 1980: 21% of its homes, where most towns have 27%.
37%
Before 1961
21%
1961–80
22%
1981–2000
16%
2001–15
3.5%
2016–21
BayhamTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Born in Bayham before the First World War: 3 lives
Fame, by Wikipedia: Mary Dignam first, in 10 languages. Henry Thomas Godwin comes first, born in 1853. The last born is Earl Hutchinson, in 1888. Earl Hutchinson reached 88, the longest life here, ending in 1976.
Henry Thomas Godwin
Mary Dignam
Earl Hutchinson
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Mary Dignam1857–1938 · Canadian artist
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Henry Thomas Godwin1853–1918 · Canadian politician
EH
Earl Hutchinson1888–1976 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Bayham → 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 its size
Bayham has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,900 to 8,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Bayham1
Just one has more: Cardinal. Their median is 0. 13 of them have none.
Neighbours
Bayham and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayham | 7,935 | 1 | 0 | 1840 |
| Malahide | 9,995 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Aylmer | 8,371 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tillsonburg | 21,450 | 1 | 1 | 1881 |
In brief
Bayham in brief
The pre-1961 share of Bayham’s homes is 37%, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Mary Dignam (1857), Henry Thomas Godwin (1853) and Earl Hutchinson (1888) are the town’s people of the past on the record.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Bayham’s history
How old are the homes in Bayham?
37% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
How many historic places does Bayham have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Bayham, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Bayham?
By its record, Port Burwell Marine Museum and Historic Lighthouse, from 1840 (Designated heritage property (part IV)).
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).