Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0History around Innisfil: 20 designated places within 50 km
The closest top-tier heritage to Innisfil is in Angus, 23 km away. Records name 4 people born in Innisfil before 1914; the first is James Stoddart Duff.
Innisfil’s surroundings: 20 historic places within 50 km
Of 12 top designations nearby, Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church is the closest, at 23 km. Their towns number 16: Aurora, Newmarket and Orillia first. The earliest date is Mission of St. Ignace II’s, 1649, 48 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Canadian National Railways Allandale Station at Barrie, Allandale / Barrie, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1906 · 13 km away, in Barrie |
| The BriarsOntario Heritage Trust easement · 16 km away, in Keswick |
| Oro African Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Site · 1849–1850 · 23 km away, in Oro-Medonte |
| Sharon TempleNational Historic Site · 1825–1832 · 24 km away, in East Gwillimbury |
| Royal Flying Corps HangarsNational Historic Site · 1917–1918 · 26 km away, in Angus |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Newmarket, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 28 km away, in Newmarket |
| Old Newmarket Town Hall and CourthouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1883 · 29 km away, in Newmarket |
| Glengarry LandingNational Historic Site · 1814 · 31 km away, in Springwater |
| Leaskdale ManseNational Historic Site · 1886–1887 · 34 km away, in Uxbridge |
| Hillary HouseNational Historic Site · 1861–1863 · 34 km away, in Aurora |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Aurora, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 35 km away, in Aurora |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Orillia, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 36 km away, in Orillia |
Around Innisfil, within 50 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
Out to 50 km from Innisfil, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
First by date comes Mission of St. Ignace II in Tay, from 1649. 19 places within 50 km carry a construction date. 7 predate Confederation.
New homes stand out in Innisfil: 13% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
More than half of Innisfil’s housing predates 2001. Before 1961: just 13% of Innisfil’s homes, where most towns have 18%. Innisfil’s largest group of homes, 29%, went up from 1981 to 2000.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Innisfil’s 4 natives of the years before 1914
Longest lived was Charles Willoughby, 101 years in all (1995). Edwin Holgate is the most written about, in 10 languages. The oldest birth on the record is James Stoddart Duff’s, in 1856. At the other end is Charles Willoughby, from 1894.
Everyone born in Innisfil → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Innisfil and its neighbours
Innisfil in brief
Edwin Holgate (1892), Charles Willoughby (1894) and Edward Alfred Little (1859) are the best known of its historic lives. Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 13%, against 18% in the typical town. 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 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. 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
Questions about Innisfil’s history
How many historic places does Innisfil have on the registers?
Not inside Innisfil. The closest is Canadian National Railways Allandale Station at Barrie, Allandale / Barrie, Ontario in Barrie, 13 km away.
How old are the homes in Innisfil?
13% 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).