Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Leeds and Grenville County Court House · Photo: Wladyslaw · CC BY-SA 3.0 deAgainst 18% in the typical town, Brockville has 2.2 times the share. The registers put 4 historic places inside its boundary, 3 of them of the highest rank. Go back to 1842 and you reach Leeds and Grenville County Court House, the oldest of them. On the list: a Recognized Federal Heritage Building.
There are photos here of 3 of Brockville’s designated places. Leading off: Leeds and Grenville County Court House and Former Brockville Post Office. 3 photographers took them.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The past in one picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap it to see it full screen.
1898Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
Brockville railway station, the earliest station on record, opened in 1872. On Wikidata the municipality of Brockville dates to 1784, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
Their designations span 1966 to 1992. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They date from 1842 (Leeds and Grenville County Court House) to 1899. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Brockville built little from 2001 to 2015: 6.9% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Count back from today and half of Brockville’s homes are older than 1981. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 33% of Brockville’s, about the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
At 94, Joan Erikson outlived the rest, dying in 1997. Canada counts William Buell Richards among its national historic persons. 40 people on the record were born here before 1914. The widest known is William Buell Richards: 9 Wikipedia editions. Only the 20 best known fit the timeline.
Everyone born in Brockville → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 23,400 to 24,000 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brockville | 23,720 | 4 | 3 | 1842 |
| Elizabethtown-Kitley | 9,886 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Augusta | 7,767 | 2 | 2 | 1758 |
| Front of Yonge | 2,773 | 1 | 1 | 1814 |
| Prescott | 4,342 | 7 | 3 | 1813 |
The 2021 Census dates 39% of Brockville’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 4 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, led by Leeds and Grenville County Court House. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Among the lives from its past: William Buell Richards (1815), Albert Norton Richards (1821) and Nathan Phillips (1892). The rest is about typical: its places were designated between 1966 and 1992.
39% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
They are Leeds and Grenville County Court House, Former Brockville Post Office and Fulford Place.
Leeds and Grenville County Court House (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1842.
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).
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