Photo: bgilliard from St. Catharines, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Forest’s surroundings: 5 historic places within 50 km
Heritage of the first rank begins 15 km from Forest, in Parkhill. Older housing stands out: 29% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Within 50 km of Forest, 3 top designations
By designation: 3 National Historic Sites, a provincial or municipal listing and a heritage railway station. Between them, 5 towns share them, mainly Parkhill, Petrolia and Enniskillen. At 12 km, Parkhill in Parkhill is the closest.
The 5 nearest, within 50 km
| ParkhillNational Historic Site · 12 km away, in Parkhill |
| Victoria Hall / Petrolia Town HallNational Historic Site · 1887–1890 · 40 km away, in Petrolia |
| First Commercial Oil FieldNational Historic Site · 1858–1859 · 48 km away, in Enniskillen |
| Elsie-Perrin Williams EstateDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1916 · 49 km away, in Masonville |
| VIA Rail Station, Sarnia, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1891–1892 · 49 km away, in Sarnia |
5.6% of Forest’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Over half of the homes in Forest were already standing by 1981. In Forest, 28% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%). 23% of Forest’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to 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.
Forest and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest | 12,962 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Kettle Point 44 | 1,363 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Parkhill | 6,864 | 1 | 1 | — |
Forest in brief
The pre-1961 share of Forest’s homes is 29%, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and its past has one life on the record, Jesse Pickard Tripp (1883).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Forest’s history
How many historic places does Forest have on the registers?
None in Forest itself. The closest is Parkhill in Parkhill, 12 km away, a place of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Forest?
29% 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).