Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0In a 50 km circle around Georgian Bluffs: 7 places on the registers
From Georgian Bluffs, look 6.9 km away, to Owen Sound, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Roland Patterson heads a list of 2 people born in Georgian Bluffs before 1914.
7 designated places lie within 50 km of Georgian Bluffs
Port Elgin and Owen Sound hold most of them, among 2 towns. The nearest is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Owen Sound, Ontario”, 6.6 km away in Owen Sound. For the highest designations, the nearest of 3 is Billy Bishop Boyhood Home, 6.7 km away.
The 7 nearest, within 50 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Owen Sound, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1946–1948 · 6.6 km away, in Owen Sound |
| Billy Bishop Boyhood HomeNational Historic Site · 1884–1885 · 6.7 km away, in Owen Sound |
| Donaldson SiteNational Historic Site · 29 km away, in Port Elgin |
| Saugeen River Rear Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1903–1904 · 31 km away, in Port Elgin |
| Saugeen River Front Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1903–1904 · 32 km away, in Port Elgin |
| TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1855–1860 · 34 km away, in Port Elgin |
| McNab Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1877–1878 · 34 km away, in Port Elgin |
Within 50 km of Georgian Bluffs, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Places as far as 50 km from Georgian Bluffs, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Tower, in Port Elgin, goes back furthest, to 1855. 6 places within 50 km carry a construction date. One goes back before 1867.
Georgian Bluffs keeps more old homes than most towns: 26% from before 1961, against 18%
Over half of the homes in Georgian Bluffs were already standing by 1981. The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 29% of Georgian Bluffs’s homes. From 2016 on, Georgian Bluffs built 5.6% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Georgian Bluffs and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgian Bluffs | 12,061 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Owen Sound | 24,075 | 2 | 1 | 1884 |
| Wiarton | 9,799 | 0 | 0 | — |
Georgian Bluffs in brief
Georgian Bluffs has 26% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and Victor Porteous (1893) and Roland Patterson (1883) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
Questions about Georgian Bluffs’s history
How many historic places does Georgian Bluffs have on the registers?
Georgian Bluffs has none of its own yet. Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Owen Sound, Ontario, in Owen Sound, is the nearest, 6.6 km away.
How old are the homes in Georgian Bluffs?
26% 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).