Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Nanticoke · Photo: JasonParis · CC BY-SA 2.0The record has 3 provincial or municipal listings. Homes from before 1961 make up 32% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town. Of the dated places, Nanticoke is the oldest, from 1813. For every 10,000 residents Caledonia has 0.9, ahead of 79% of Canadian towns.
All of Caledonia’s designated places are pictured. Among them: Nanticoke and Ruthven Park. The pictures are the work of 5 photographers.
Ruthven Park
S.S. 2, Walpole School/Wilson Pugsley Macdonald Memorial School Museum
Caledonia Mill
Edinburgh Square, Caledonia+1See all photosPhotos 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 municipality of Caledonia has the date 1800 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation. By 1908 the place had a station: Caledonia railway station.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
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.
Their designations span 1924 to 1995. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The oldest, Nanticoke, dates from 1813; the newest from 1845. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. The oldest, Caledonia Mill, dates from 1857; the newest from 1858. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 100 m outside the town |
Count back from today and half of Caledonia’s homes are older than 1981. 24% of Caledonia’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 24% of Caledonia’s, about the typical 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The longest life was James Allan’s: 98 years, to 1992. Counting only births before 1914, there are 26. Best known is Byron Edmund Walker, with articles in 6 Wikipedia languages. Byron Edmund Walker and William Donald Albright are on Canada’s list of national historic persons. The timeline keeps to the 20 best known.
Everyone born in Caledonia → 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.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caledonia | 56,059 | 5 | 2 | 1813 |
| Six Nations (Part) 40 | 1,162 | 0 | 0 | — |
Of the homes standing in Caledonia, 32% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 5 historic places, 2 with the highest designation. Among the lives from its past: Byron Edmund Walker (1848), Harold Cotton (1902) and R. A. Hardie (1865). Beyond that, it has 5 historic places, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 2); and its places were designated between 1924 and 1995.
They are Nanticoke and Ruthven Park.
32% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Nanticoke (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1813.
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 27 further listings in Caledonia show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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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