Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Within 100 km of Callander, 5 places are on the heritage registers
Heritage of the first rank begins 14 km from Callander, in North Bay. Wikidata gives 1891 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged.
The registers find 5 places within 100 km of Callander
Closest of all is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario”, in North Bay, 14 km off. Oldest of them is Poste de relais pour le flottage du bois d'Opémican (1883), 71 km off. They belong to 3 towns, chiefly North Bay, Témiscaming and Huntsville.
The 5 nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1903–1904 · 14 km away, in North Bay |
| Canadian National Railway Station, North Bay, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1916–1917 · 14 km away, in North Bay |
| Témiscaming stationClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1927 · 61 km away, in Témiscaming |
| Poste de relais pour le flottage du bois d'OpémicanClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1883 · 71 km away, in Témiscaming |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Huntsville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1924–1925 · 99 km away, in Huntsville |
The 100 km around Callander keep buildings from as early as 1883
Reaching 100 km out from Callander: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
First by date comes Poste de relais pour le flottage du bois d'Opémican in Témiscaming, from 1883. Dated places within 100 km: 5.
The biggest share of Callander’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 31%
Half of the homes standing in Callander today were built before 2001. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 25% of Callander’s, against 15% in the typical town. 17% of Callander’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Callander compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,000 to 4,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Centremount, Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré and Smoky Lake County. Their median is 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Callander and its neighbours
Callander in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 17% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. For the rest, one person of its past, Stan Darling (1911).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Callander’s history
How many historic places does Callander have on the registers?
None within Callander itself; the nearest is 14 km off: Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario, in North Bay.
When did Callander become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Callander to 1891. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Callander?
The 2021 Census dates 17% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).