Photo: J. S. Bond · CC BY-SA 3.0Older housing stands out in Clinton: 44% predates 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Clinton has 2.5 times as much. Goderich Branch, Huron County Library, 16 km from Clinton, heads a list of 52 historic places within 100 km. The nearest town with a top designation is Goderich, 15 km away. Records name 2 people born in Clinton before 1914; the first is Lydia Kingsmill Commander.
Within 100 km of Clinton, the record goes back to 1816
Reaching 100 km out from Clinton: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
48 dated places within 100 km make up the record. 17 predate Confederation. Oldest of all: Joseph Schneider Haus, Victoria Park, 1816.
Within 100 km of Clinton, 20 top designations
Between them, 27 towns share them, mainly Central London, Waterloo and Port Elgin. Count to 100 km and there are 52. By age, Joseph Schneider Haus leads, from 1816, at 92 km.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Goderich Branch, Huron County LibraryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1904 · 16 km away, in Goderich |
| Huron County GaolNational Historic Site · 1839–1842 · 16 km away, in Goderich |
| Goderich Train StationDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1900 · 16 km away, in Goderich |
| Point Clark LighthouseNational Historic Site · 1856–1860 · 51 km away, in Huron-Kinloss |
| ParkhillNational Historic Site · 53 km away, in Parkhill |
| St. Marys Junction Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1858–1859 · 55 km away, in St. Marys |
| St. MarysDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 56 km away, in St. Marys |
| Stratford City HallNational Historic Site · 1898–1900 · 58 km away, in Stratford |
| Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Stratford, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914 · 58 km away, in Stratford |
| Gallery StratfordDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1883 · 59 km away, in Stratford |
| Elsie-Perrin Williams EstateDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1916 · 73 km away, in Masonville |
| St. Peter's SeminaryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1912 · 74 km away, in North London |
New homes are rare in Clinton: 3.1% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Few of Clinton’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 7.5%, the norm 15%. Over half of the homes in Clinton were already standing by 1981. 24% of Clinton’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Clinton and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton | 8,318 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Goderich | 8,412 | 3 | 1 | 1839 |
Clinton in brief
Counted by age, 44% of Clinton’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed; and its past has lives on the record such as Lydia Kingsmill Commander (1869) and Herbert Rayner (1911).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Clinton’s history
How many historic places does Clinton have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Clinton; Goderich Branch, Huron County Library, in Goderich, is 16 km away.
How old are the homes in Clinton?
Before 1961: 44% of its homes; 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).