In a 5 km circle around Mountview: 9 places on the registers
The nearest town to Mountview with a top designation is Sulphur Springs, 3.8 km away. The 2021 Census dates 4.6% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.
Mountview’s area holds 6 top-tier places within 5 km
They are 6 National Historic Sites, 2 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station. The nearest is Auchmar, 3.1 km away in Centremount. Count to 5 km and there are 9.
The 9 nearest, within 5 km
| AuchmarOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1855 · 3.1 km away, in Centremount |
| Sandyford PlaceNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 4.1 km away, in Durand |
| McQuesten House / WhitehernNational Historic Site · 1848–1849 · 4.4 km away, in Durand |
| Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Station, Former, Hamilton, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1931–1934 · 4.5 km away, in Corktown |
| St. Paul's Presbyterian Church / Former St. Andrew's ChurchNational Historic Site · 1854–1858 · 4.6 km away, in Corktown |
| Dundurn CastleNational Historic Site · 1834–1836 · 4.6 km away, in Strathcona |
| Burlington HeightsNational Historic Site · 1813–1814 · 4.6 km away, in Strathcona |
| Dundas Central Public SchoolOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1857 · 4.7 km away, in Colborne |
| Victoria HallNational Historic Site · 1887–1889 · 4.8 km away, in Corktown |
Within 5 km of Mountview, the years before Confederation left the most
Each historic place within 5 km of Mountview, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
Burlington Heights, in Strathcona, goes back furthest, to 1813. 9 dated places within 5 km make up the record. 7 predate Confederation.
Mountview’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 48% of its homes
More than half of Mountview’s housing predates 1981. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 12% of Mountview’s, against 23% in the typical town. Like the typical town (18%), Mountview has 19% of its homes from before 1961.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Mountview compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,700 to 7,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Baie-Saint-Paul, Central St. Boniface and Augusta. Their median is 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Mountview and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountview | 7,752 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Fessenden | 3,551 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westcliffe East | 2,832 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Gilbert | 3,181 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Gurnett | 4,582 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ainslie Wood East | 3,112 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Gilkson | 2,963 | 0 | 0 | — |
Mountview in brief
Housing in Mountview includes 19% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Mountview’s history
How many historic places does Mountview have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Mountview; Auchmar, in Centremount, is 3.1 km away.
How old are the homes in Mountview?
19% 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).