History of Carleton Place · Canada’s heritage registers
Canada’s registers list 1 historic place in Carleton Place
Carleton Place’s entry is Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, Ontario (1921), a heritage railway station. Relative to its size Carleton Place has 0.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 76% of Canadian towns. 2 more places on provincial or local lists are counted from Wikidata without pages.
Rail service is on record from 1921, when Carleton Place railway station opened. Wikidata gives the municipality of Carleton Place the date 1870, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. Its charter made Carleton Place a village in 1870.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Carleton Place
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Within 50 km of Carleton Place, 66 top designations
At 11 km, Former Almonte Post Office in Almonte is the closest. Among them are 66 municipal citations, 47 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 36 National Historic Sites. Oldest of them is Saint James cemetery (1820), 45 km off.
4, rue Raoul-RoyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1890 · 36 km away, in Des Explorateurs
Homes by age
17% of Carleton Place’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Only 16% of Carleton Place’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Homes from before 1961 make up 25% of Carleton Place’s housing; the typical town has 18%. Count back from today and half of Carleton Place’s homes are older than 2001.
25%
Before 1961
16%
1961–80
24%
1981–2000
18%
2001–15
17%
2016–21
Carleton PlaceTypical 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
From 1833 to 1902: lives that began in Carleton Place
Longest lived was Bill Phillips, 96 years in all (1998). By Wikipedia’s reach, Arthur Roy Brown leads, with 14 articles. 12 people on the record were born here before 1914. Most of them, 10 of 12, came into the world in the decades after Confederation.
Bennett Rosamond
William Moffat
D'Alton Corry Coleman
Dave McCann
Cooper Smeaton
Fred McCulloch
Arthur Roy Brown
Lloyd Samuel Breadner
Charles Stewart
Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith
Bill Phillips
Leslie McFarlane
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Arthur Roy Brown1893–1944 · Canadian First World War flying ace
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Leslie McFarlane1902–1977 · Canadian filmmaker and writer
Cooper Smeaton1890–1978 · Canadian ice hockey coach and official
Charles Stewart1895–1973 · Canadian ice hockey player
Bill Phillips1902–1998 · Canadian ice hockey player
Bennett Rosamond1833–1910 · Canadian politician
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Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith1895–1921 · Canadian flying ace
William Moffat1847–1926 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Carleton Place → 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
Carleton Place has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 14,800 to 14,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Carleton Place’s homes from before 1961 come to 25%, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Among the lives from its past: Arthur Roy Brown (1893), Leslie McFarlane (1902) and Cooper Smeaton (1890). The other figures are unremarkable: its one place was designated in 1991.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
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The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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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.
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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.
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The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
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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.
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Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
Questions about Carleton Place’s history
How many historic places does Carleton Place have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Carleton Place, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Carleton Place?
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, Ontario (Heritage Railway Station): the first construction date on its record is 1921.
How old are the homes in Carleton Place?
25% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Carleton Place be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 2 further listings in Carleton Place 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.
