TopNational Historic Site · 1856–1860Point Clark Lighthouse530 Lighthouse RoadPhoto: Tim Mckee · Public domain · Commons file
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History of Huron-Kinloss · Canada’s heritage registers
Huron-Kinloss: 1 historic place, with the highest designation
Point Clark Lighthouse, from 1856, is Huron-Kinloss’s national historic site. Per resident Huron-Kinloss has more than 81% of Canadian towns: 1.2 for every 10,000 people. Before 1961: 31% of the homes, where most towns have 18%.
Historic places
1
1.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1856
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
31%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
A look at historic Huron-Kinloss
Point Clark Lighthouse is the single place Huron-Kinloss’s registers name, and here it is.
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.
The map
Where Huron-Kinloss’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by tier
1 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
One place in Huron-Kinloss with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
One place of the highest rank within 50 km of Huron-Kinloss
The first one out is Huron County Gaol, 35 km away in Goderich. They stand in 2 towns, Goderich and Port Elgin among them. 4 places lie within 50 km.
The 4 nearest, within 50 km
| Huron County GaolNational Historic Site · 1839–1842 · 35 km away, in Goderich |
| Goderich Branch, Huron County LibraryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1904 · 36 km away, in Goderich |
| Goderich Train StationDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1900 · 36 km away, in Goderich |
| McNab Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1877–1878 · 49 km away, in Port Elgin |
Homes by age
A growing town: 6% of Huron-Kinloss’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Huron-Kinloss built little from 1981 to 2000: 18% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. 20% of Huron-Kinloss’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Half of the homes standing in Huron-Kinloss today were built before 1981.
31%
Before 1961
25%
1961–80
18%
1981–2000
20%
2001–15
6%
2016–21
Huron-KinlossTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Huron-Kinloss has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,400 to 8,500 residents, by places on the registers.
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Ahead of it: Goderich. The typical town its size has 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Huron-Kinloss and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huron-Kinloss | 8,445 | 1 | 1 | 1856 |
| Kincardine | 13,169 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Huron-Kinloss in brief
Of the homes standing in Huron-Kinloss, 31% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all, one with the highest designation; Point Clark Lighthouse heads them. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: one person of its past, Kenneth W. MacKenzie (1862); and its one place was designated in 1966.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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 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.
Questions about Huron-Kinloss’s history
Which places in Huron-Kinloss have the highest designation?
Point Clark Lighthouse.
How old are the homes in Huron-Kinloss?
31% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
What is the oldest building in Huron-Kinloss?
Point Clark Lighthouse — its record dates it to 1856 (National Historic Site).
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).