Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Older housing stands out in Hanover: 32% predates 1961
The typical town has 18%: Hanover has 1.8 times the share. The nearest heritage to Hanover is McNab Point Lighthouse, 46 km off, one of 7 places within 50 km. The nearest town with a top designation is Port Elgin, 44 km away. Alexander Maitland Stephen heads a list of 2 people born in Hanover before 1914.
Near Hanover, within 50 km: built places from 1855 on
Reaching 50 km out from Hanover: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
6 dated places within 50 km make up the record. Before Confederation: one. Oldest of all: Tower, Port Elgin, 1855.
Within 50 km of Hanover, 3 top designations
They belong to 2 towns, chiefly Port Elgin and Owen Sound. Tower, 48 km off, is the oldest: 1855. At 46 km, McNab Point Lighthouse in Port Elgin is the closest.
The 7 nearest, within 50 km
| McNab Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1877–1878 · 46 km away, in Port Elgin |
| Billy Bishop Boyhood HomeNational Historic Site · 1884–1885 · 46 km away, in Owen Sound |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Owen Sound, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1946–1948 · 47 km away, in Owen Sound |
| Donaldson SiteNational Historic Site · 47 km away, in Port Elgin |
| Saugeen River Rear Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1903–1904 · 47 km away, in Port Elgin |
| Saugeen River Front Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1903–1904 · 48 km away, in Port Elgin |
| TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1855–1860 · 48 km away, in Port Elgin |
The biggest share of Hanover’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 32%
From 2016 to 2021 Hanover added 5.7% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 17% of Hanover’s, against 23% in the typical town. Half of the homes standing in Hanover today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Hanover compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,700 to 8,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Nicolet has more. The middle one has 0. For 15, the registers list nothing.
Hanover and its neighbours
Hanover in brief
The pre-1961 share of Hanover’s homes is 32%, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. For the rest, Alexander Maitland Stephen (1882) and Carl Schaefer (1903) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- 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.
Questions about Hanover’s history
How many historic places does Hanover have on the registers?
Not inside Hanover. The closest is McNab Point Lighthouse in Port Elgin, 46 km away.
When did Hanover become a municipality?
Wikidata gives 1849 for Hanover, which may mark incorporation or an amalgamation rather than a founding.
How old are the homes in Hanover?
32% 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).