Photo: Boxcarphilly · CC BY 3.0An older town: 33% of Grey Highlands’s homes predate 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Grey Highlands has 1.9 times as much. The registers count 7 places within 50 km of Grey Highlands; the closest, Collingwood Downtown Heritage Conservation District, is 31 km away. The closest top-tier heritage is in Collingwood, 30 km from here. 6 people on record were born in Grey Highlands before 1914, George Bell the earliest.
Within 50 km of Grey Highlands, the record goes back to 1857
The area here stretches to 50 km around Grey Highlands: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Lighttower, in Collingwood, goes back furthest, to 1857. 6 places within 50 km have a date. One predates Confederation.
Within 50 km of Grey Highlands, 5 top designations
Their towns number 4: Collingwood, Owen Sound and Stayner first. Among them are 3 National Historic Sites, 2 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and a provincial or municipal listing. The nearest is Collingwood Downtown Heritage Conservation District, 31 km away in Collingwood.
The 7 nearest, within 50 km
| Collingwood Downtown Heritage Conservation DistrictHeritage conservation district · 31 km away, in Collingwood |
| Federal BuildingClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1913–1916 · 31 km away, in Collingwood |
| LighttowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1857–1859 · 32 km away, in Collingwood |
| ClaverleighNational Historic Site · 1871–1872 · 32 km away, in Stayner |
| Billy Bishop Boyhood HomeNational Historic Site · 1884–1885 · 45 km away, in Owen Sound |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Owen Sound, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1946–1948 · 45 km away, in Owen Sound |
| Royal Flying Corps HangarsNational Historic Site · 1917–1918 · 49 km away, in Angus |
33% of Grey Highlands’s homes were built before 1961
From 2016 to 2021 Grey Highlands added 4.6% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Grey Highlands’s homes are older than 1981. 23% of Grey Highlands’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born in Grey Highlands, 1869 to 1904
Of them all, Grace Hartman lived longest: 98 years, until 1998. There are 6 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. By Wikipedia’s reach, Walter Edward Harris leads, with 6 articles.
Everyone born in Grey Highlands → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Grey Highlands and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Highlands | 12,148 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dundalk | 11,599 | 0 | 0 | — |
Grey Highlands in brief
Housing in Grey Highlands includes 33% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Of its people of the past, the best known are Walter Edward Harris (1904), Ernest Frederick Armstrong (1878) and Farquhar Oliver (1904). The rest is about typical: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
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.
- 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. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
Questions about Grey Highlands’s history
How many historic places does Grey Highlands have on the registers?
Inside Grey Highlands, none so far; Collingwood Downtown Heritage Conservation District, 31 km away in Collingwood, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Grey Highlands?
33% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).