Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Within 25 km of Beckwith, 5 places are on the heritage registers
Its housing is mostly newer: 9.6% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. The nearest town with a top designation is Almonte, 15 km away.
4 places of the highest rank within 25 km of Beckwith
Oldest of them is Rosamond Woollen Mill (1866), 15 km off. The mix: 4 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station. At 3.1 km, “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, Ontario” in Carleton Place is the closest.
The 5 nearest, within 25 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1921–1923 · 3.1 km away, in Carleton Place |
| Former Almonte Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1889–1892 · 14 km away, in Almonte |
| Rosamond Woollen MillNational Historic Site · 1866–1901 · 15 km away, in Almonte |
| Smiths Falls Railway Station (Canadian Northern)National Historic Site · 1912–1915 · 24 km away, in Smiths Falls |
| Smiths Falls Bascule BridgeNational Historic Site · 1912–1914 · 25 km away, in Smiths Falls |
Within 25 km of Beckwith, the record goes back to 1866
The area here stretches to 25 km around Beckwith: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Rosamond Woollen Mill, in Almonte, goes back furthest, to 1866. The chart rests on 5 dated places within 25 km. One predates Confederation.
12% of Beckwith’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Few of Beckwith’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 18%, the norm 27%. The busiest building years in Beckwith were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 37% of today’s homes. Beckwith has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 23%, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Beckwith compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,000 to 10,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Amherst, Lac-des-Fées and Kitimat. Their median is 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Beckwith and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckwith | 10,073 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Carleton Place | 14,837 | 1 | 0 | 1921 |
| Almonte | 16,073 | 2 | 2 | 1866 |
| Corkery | 3,822 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Munster - Ashton | 6,372 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Drummond/North Elmsley | 8,817 | 0 | 0 | — |
Beckwith in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 9.6% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- 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.
Questions about Beckwith’s history
How many historic places does Beckwith have on the registers?
None within Beckwith itself; the nearest is 3.1 km off: Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, Ontario, in Carleton Place.
How old are the homes in Beckwith?
9.6% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).