TopNational Historic Site · 1840–1854Old Stone Church1490 Road 15 (Simcoe Street)Photo: Yoho2001 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Old Stone Church · Photo: Yoho2001 · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Beaverton · Canada’s heritage registers
Beaverton’s 1 historic place is a top designation
The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Beaverton has 33%. That place is Old Stone Church, a national historic site, from 1840. For the municipality itself, Wikidata has 1974, which can be an incorporation or a merger rather than a founding. Relative to its size Beaverton has 0.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 77% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
0.7 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1840
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
33%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Beaverton’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
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.
Highest designations
One place in Beaverton with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
9 places of the highest rank within 50 km of Beaverton
Count to 50 km and there are 15. By age, Mnjikaning Fish Weirs leads, from 1650, at 32 km. Their towns number 12: Orillia, Newmarket and Aurora first.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| The BriarsOntario Heritage Trust easement · 19 km away, in Keswick |
| Leaskdale ManseNational Historic Site · 1886–1887 · 19 km away, in Uxbridge |
| Canal Lake Concrete Arch BridgeNational Historic Site · 1905–1906 · 21 km away, in Lindsay |
| Mnjikaning Fish WeirsNational Historic Site · 1650 · 32 km away, in Ramara |
| Stephen Leacock Museum / Old Brewery BayNational Historic Site · 1928–1929 · 33 km away, in Orillia |
| Former Port Perry Town HallNational Historic Site · 1873–1874 · 34 km away, in Port Perry |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Orillia, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 34 km away, in Orillia |
| Sharon TempleNational Historic Site · 1825–1832 · 39 km away, in East Gwillimbury |
| Oro African Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Site · 1849–1850 · 43 km away, in Oro-Medonte |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Newmarket, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 44 km away, in Newmarket |
| Canadian National Railways Allandale Station at Barrie, Allandale / Barrie, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1906 · 44 km away, in Barrie |
| Old Newmarket Town Hall and CourthouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1883 · 44 km away, in Newmarket |
Homes by age
A growing town: 7.8% of Beaverton’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Only 7.8% of Beaverton’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Over half of the homes in Beaverton were already standing by 1981. In Beaverton, 31% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
33%
Before 1961
31%
1961–80
21%
1981–2000
7.8%
2001–15
7.8%
2016–21
BeavertonTypical 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
Natives of Beaverton from 1847 to 1898
5 of the 9 were born in the decades after Confederation. By Wikipedia’s reach, William John Gillespie leads, with 4 articles. At 89, William Parrish outlived the rest, dying in 1949. Counting only births before 1914, there are 9.
Adam Edward Vrooman
Joseph St. John
William Parrish
Robert Holmes
John Ritchie MacNicol
Maude C. Davison
George Arthur Welsh
William John Gillespie
George Chisholm MacKay
1800182518501875190019251950
WG
William John Gillespie1897–1967 · Canadian flying ace
Maude C. Davison1885–1956 · U.S. Army Nurse
GW
George Arthur Welsh1896–1965 · Canadian flying ace and politician
AV
Adam Edward Vrooman1847–1923 · Canadian politician
Joseph St. John1854–1907 · Canadian politician
RH
Robert Holmes1861–1930 · Canadian painter
JM
John Ritchie MacNicol1878–1950 · Canadian politician
GM
George Chisholm MacKay1898–1973 · Canadian flying ace
Everyone born in Beaverton → 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
Beaverton has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 13,600 to 13,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Beaverton1
Only Strathcona and Sandy Hill have more. The typical town its size has 0. 11 of them have none.
In brief
Beaverton in brief
In Beaverton, 33% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Old Stone Church. Just 2 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. William John Gillespie (1897), Maude C. Davison (1885) and George Arthur Welsh (1896) are the best known of its historic lives. The other figures are unremarkable: its designation dates from 1991.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
Questions about Beaverton’s history
How old are the homes in Beaverton?
Before 1961: 33% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Beaverton have the highest designation?
Old Stone Church.
What is the oldest building in Beaverton?
Old Stone Church, a National Historic Site, begun in 1840.
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).