Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Victoria Hall / Cobourg Town Hall · Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0Counted by designation, there are a heritage railway station. Of the dated places, Victoria Hall / Cobourg Town Hall is the oldest, from 1856. Scaled to its population, Cobourg’s 0.9 per 10,000 residents beats 79% of Canadian towns. Behind these stand 3 more local or provincial listings that only Wikidata records.
First come Victoria Hall / Cobourg Town Hall and “Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Cobourg, Ontario”. The photos cover both places on Cobourg’s registers. Open a place’s page for its old views: 2 places in Cobourg have 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.
4 old photographs of the town, then the oldest views of 2 of its historic places, set out by date. Pick a dot to see the year; pick a picture to see it large.
c. 1911
c. 1919
c. 1919
c. 1919
c. 1919
c. 1919Public 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.
Cobourg took its legal form as a town in 1837. The date Wikidata keeps for Cobourg is 1798; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Cobourg”, revision 1378386927 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Nearest comes St. Mark's Church, 9.4 km off, in Port Hope. All told, 4 places are within 25 km. By age, Barnum House leads, from 1820, at 11 km.
| St. Mark's ChurchDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1822 · 9.4 km away, in Port Hope |
| Capitol TheatreDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 9.7 km away, in Port Hope |
| Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Port Hope, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1856–1857 · 10 km away, in Port Hope |
| Barnum HouseNational Historic Site · 1820–1821 · 11 km away, in Alnwick/Haldimand |
Over half of the homes in Cobourg were already standing by 1981. New building is strong in Cobourg: 5.2% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 20% of Cobourg’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Marie Dressler is the most written about, in 56 languages. At 95, Josephine Jacobsen outlived the rest, dying in 2003. In 1818 came the earliest, Charles Perry. Before 1914, 26 births here made the record. Only the 20 best known fit the timeline.
Everyone born in Cobourg → 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 22,400 to 22,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Cité-Universitaire, Joliette and Moss Park. The middle one has 0. For 10, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobourg | 22,529 | 2 | 1 | 1856 |
| Hamilton | 11,810 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Port Hope | 18,446 | 4 | 1 | 1822 |
| Alnwick/Haldimand | 8,197 | 1 | 1 | 1820 |
Before 1961: 28% of Cobourg’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 2 historic places, one with the highest designation, including Victoria Hall / Cobourg Town Hall. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Its people of the past include Marie Dressler (1868), John Murray (1841) and Alice Wilson (1881). The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1959 and 1994.
Just one: Victoria Hall / Cobourg Town Hall.
Victoria Hall / Cobourg Town Hall, a National Historic Site, begun in 1856.
Before 1961: 28% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 3 further listings in Cobourg 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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