Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 2.0Beyond Colborne’s limits, 20 historic places within 50 km
Homes from before 1961 make up 31% of Colborne’s stock, above the 18% of the typical town. For the highest designations, the closest town is Alnwick/Haldimand, 16 km off. 5 people on record were born in Colborne before 1914, William Wilson Webb the earliest.
Colborne’s area holds 10 top-tier places within 50 km
They belong to 9 towns, chiefly Peterborough, Port Hope and Belleville. The nearest is Barnum House, 14 km away in Alnwick/Haldimand. By age, Carrying Place of the Bay of Quinte leads, from 1787, at 23 km.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Barnum HouseNational Historic Site · 1820–1821 · 14 km away, in Alnwick/Haldimand |
| Carrying Place of the Bay of QuinteNational Historic Site · 1787 · 23 km away, in Picton |
| Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Cobourg, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1912 · 25 km away, in Cobourg |
| Victoria Hall / Cobourg Town HallNational Historic Site · 1856–1861 · 25 km away, in Cobourg |
| Trent – Severn WaterwayNational Historic Site · 1830–1921 · 25 km away, in Quinte West |
| Scotch Bonnet Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1853–1856 · 30 km away, in Picton |
| Serpent MoundsNational Historic Site · 30 km away, in Otonabee-South Monaghan |
| St. Mark's ChurchDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1822 · 35 km away, in Port Hope |
| Capitol TheatreDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 35 km away, in Port Hope |
| Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Port Hope, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1856–1857 · 36 km away, in Port Hope |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1909 · 42 km away, in Belleville |
| Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 43 km away, in Belleville |
Within 50 km of Colborne, the dated places belong mostly to the years before Confederation
The nearest historic places to Colborne, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
The earliest is Carrying Place of the Bay of Quinte in Picton, begun in 1787. The chart rests on 18 dated places within 50 km. Before Confederation: 10.
5.8% of Colborne’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Count back from today and half of Colborne’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 18% of Colborne’s, against 27% in the typical town. 29% of Colborne’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, more than the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Colborne’s person of national historic significance, and others
Most of them, 3 of 5, came into the world in the years before Confederation. 5 Wikipedias cover Charles Smith Rutherford, the most of anyone here. There are 5 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. The longest life was Charles Smith Rutherford’s: 97 years, to 1989.
Everyone born in Colborne → 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.
How Colborne compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,200 to 7,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Hope, La Sarre and Saint-Paul. Their median is 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Colborne and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colborne | 7,216 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Brighton | 12,900 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Alnwick/Haldimand | 8,197 | 1 | 1 | 1820 |
Colborne in brief
Colborne has 31% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Charles Smith Rutherford (1892), George Albertus Cox (1840) and William Wilson Webb (1826) lead its people of the past. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
Questions about Colborne’s history
How many historic places does Colborne have on the registers?
Not within Colborne. Its nearest is a top designation: Barnum House, 14 km away in Alnwick/Haldimand.
How old are the homes in Colborne?
31% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).