TopNational Historic Site · 1792–1793Old Hay Bay Church2365 South Shore RoadPhoto: kallo39 from Kingston, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Commons file
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.02historic places on the registers
History of Greater Napanee · Canada’s heritage registers
Back to 1792 in Greater Napanee, with Old Hay Bay Church
The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Greater Napanee has 35%. All 2 historic places listed here are of the highest rank. Scaled to its population, 1.1 per 10,000 residents beats 80% of Canadian towns. 2 more places on provincial or local lists are counted from Wikidata without pages.
Historic places
2
1.1 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
2
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1792
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
35%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
See all 2 of Greater Napanee’s places with the highest designations
Both places on Greater Napanee’s registers have a photo here. Two to begin with: Old Hay Bay Church and Napanee Town Hall.
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.
Through time
Greater Napanee from 1907 to 1926
In order of date: 3 old photographs of the town, then the oldest view of one of its historic places. Swipe along the strip; each picture opens at full size.
c. 1907
c. 1908
c. 1912
c. 1926Public 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.
The map
Where Greater Napanee’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 2, by tier
2 Highest designations
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
2 places in Greater Napanee with the highest designation
They date from 1792 (Old Hay Bay Church) to 1856. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Their designations span 1984 to 1999. Each one opens its own page.
TopNational Historic Site · 1856–1857Napanee Town Hall1 Market SquarePhoto: Liz from Napanee, Ontario., Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Commons file
Around the town
Top-ranked heritage near Greater Napanee: 28 places within 50 km
Among them are 25 National Historic Sites, 9 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 3 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings. Closest of all is “Christ Church, Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the Mohawk”, in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, 10 km off. All told, 41 places are within 50 km.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Christ Church, Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the MohawkNational Historic Site · 1843–1844 · 10 km away, in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory |
| Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Ernestown, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1855–1857 · 18 km away, in Loyalist |
| Glanmore / Phillips-Faulkner HouseNational Historic Site · 1882–1884 · 33 km away, in Belleville |
| Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 33 km away, in Belleville |
| Collins Bay Institution, Administration Building, A-1Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1931–1944 · 33 km away, in Kingston |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1909 · 34 km away, in Belleville |
| Sir John A. Macdonald GravesiteNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 34 km away, in Kingston |
| Cataraqui CemeteryNational Historic Site · 34 km away, in Kingston |
| Prince Edward Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1881 · 35 km away, in Picton |
| Kingston PenitentiaryNational Historic Site · 1834–1870 · 37 km away, in Kingston |
| RoselawnNational Historic Site · 1841–1842 · 37 km away, in Kingston |
| St. Helen's Complex, Stone GablesRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1924–1925 · 37 km away, in Kingston |
Homes by age
35% of Greater Napanee’s homes were built before 1961
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 11% of Greater Napanee’s, against 15% in the typical town. From 2016 to 2021 Greater Napanee added 4.7% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Greater Napanee’s homes are older than 1981.
35%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
20%
1981–2000
11%
2001–15
4.7%
2016–21
Greater NapaneeTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Lives begun in Greater Napanee between 1788 and 1898
Most of them, 9 of 15, came into the world in the years before Confederation. Counting only births before 1914, there are 15. Aylesworth Bowen Perry lived longest, to 96, dying in 1956. Reginald Aldworth Daly is the most written about, in 19 languages.
Samuel Casey
Henry Ruttan
Thomas Weeks Robison
David Wright Allison
John Thomas Grange
Bob Casey
Aylesworth Bowen Perry
Charles Wesley Hambly
Helen Merrill Egerton
Reginald Aldworth Daly
William Sexsmith
H. Bedford-Jones
Stuart Wood
Arthur Jarvis
Kathleen Frances Daly
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RD
Reginald Aldworth Daly1871–1957 · Canadian geologist
HB
H. Bedford-Jones1887–1949 · Canadian-American writer
KD
Kathleen Frances Daly1898–1994 · Canadian painter
SC
Samuel Casey1788–1857 · Canadian politician
DA
David Wright Allison1826–1906 · Canadian politician
BC
Bob Casey1859–1936 · American baseball player
Helen Merrill Egerton1866–1951 · Canadian writer and poet
AJ
Arthur Jarvis1894–1969 · Canadian flying ace
Everyone born in Greater Napanee → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Neighbours
Greater Napanee and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Napanee | 18,016 | 2 | 2 | 1792 |
| Deseronto | 1,844 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory | 3,028 | 1 | 1 | 1843 |
| Tyendinaga | 5,005 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Greater Napanee in brief
In Greater Napanee, 35% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 2 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, led by Old Hay Bay Church. Among the lives from its past: Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871), H. Bedford-Jones (1887) and Kathleen Frances Daly (1898). For the rest, 2 historic places is about usual for its size (the median is 0); and the list grew between 1984 and 1999.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- 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.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- 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.
Questions about Greater Napanee’s history
What is the oldest building in Greater Napanee?
Old Hay Bay Church (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1792.
How old are the homes in Greater Napanee?
35% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Which places in Greater Napanee have the highest designation?
They are Old Hay Bay Church and Napanee Town Hall.
Why might a heritage building in Greater Napanee be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 2 further listings in Greater Napanee 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).