Photo: Nhl4hamilton (Rick Cordeiro) · Public domainOlder housing stands out in Stinson: 67% predates 1961
The typical town has 18%: Stinson has 3.8 times the share. Within 5 km of Stinson there are 14 designated places; Victoria Hall, at 1.2 km, is the closest. Look 900 m away, to Corktown, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
Within 5 km of Stinson, the years before Confederation left the most
The area, not the town: places within 5 km of Stinson, dated by the first construction year on their records.
First by date comes Burlington Heights in Strathcona, from 1813. The bars count 14 dated places within 5 km. 7 go back before 1867.
The highest designation, 11 times, within 5 km of Stinson
Burlington Heights, 3.4 km off, is the oldest: 1813. The nearest is Victoria Hall, 1.2 km away in Corktown. Corktown, Beasley and Durand hold most of them, among 8 towns.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Victoria HallNational Historic Site · 1887–1889 · 1.2 km away, in Corktown |
| Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Station, Former, Hamilton, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1931–1934 · 1.2 km away, in Corktown |
| St. Paul's Presbyterian Church / Former St. Andrew's ChurchNational Historic Site · 1854–1858 · 1.3 km away, in Corktown |
| McQuesten House / WhitehernNational Historic Site · 1848–1849 · 1.5 km away, in Durand |
| Sandyford PlaceNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 1.5 km away, in Durand |
| John Weir Foote ArmouryNational Historic Site · 1887–1889 · 1.6 km away, in Beasley |
| Christ's Church CathedralOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1873 · 1.8 km away, in Beasley |
| Former Hamilton Railway Station (Canadian National)National Historic Site · 1929–1932 · 2 km away, in Beasley |
| Former Hamilton Customs HouseNational Historic Site · 1858–1861 · 2.1 km away, in Central |
| AuchmarOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1855 · 2.4 km away, in Centremount |
| HMCS HaidaNational Historic Site · 1942–1943 · 2.9 km away, in North End East |
| Dundurn CastleNational Historic Site · 1834–1836 · 3.3 km away, in Strathcona |
Stinson added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.8%, where most towns have 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 1.6% of Stinson’s, against 15% in the typical town. Few of Stinson’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 9.9%, the norm 23%. Stinson built little from 1961 to 1980: 20% of its homes, where most towns have 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Stinson compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,900 to 4,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Fort Macleod, New Richmond and Danville. The typical town its size has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Stinson and its neighbours
Stinson in brief
Before 1961: 67% of Stinson’s homes, 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
- 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 tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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 Stinson’s history
How many historic places does Stinson have on the registers?
Nothing inside Stinson; Victoria Hall in Corktown, 1.2 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Stinson?
67% 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).