Photo: P199 · Public domainLanark Highlands and its setting: 11 historic places within 50 km
The closest top-tier heritage to Lanark Highlands is in Perth, 24 km away. 9 people on record were born in Lanark Highlands before 1914, Abraham Code the earliest. Wikidata dates the municipality to July 1, 1997, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
The heritage closest to Lanark Highlands: Matheson House, at 24 km
The registers hold 11 within 50 km. Their towns number 7: Perth, Almonte and Smiths Falls first. Among them are 10 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station.
The 11 nearest, within 50 km
| Matheson HouseNational Historic Site · 1840–1841 · 24 km away, in Perth |
| Perth Town HallNational Historic Site · 1863–1865 · 24 km away, in Perth |
| McMartin HouseNational Historic Site · 1830–1831 · 24 km away, in Perth |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1921–1923 · 29 km away, in Carleton Place |
| Rosamond Woollen MillNational Historic Site · 1866–1901 · 30 km away, in Almonte |
| Former Almonte Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1889–1892 · 30 km away, in Almonte |
| Smiths Falls Railway Station (Canadian Northern)National Historic Site · 1912–1915 · 39 km away, in Smiths Falls |
| Smiths Falls Bascule BridgeNational Historic Site · 1912–1914 · 39 km away, in Smiths Falls |
| D.A. Gillies BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 45 km away, in Arnprior |
| Gillies Grove and HouseNational Historic Site · 1937–1938 · 46 km away, in McNab/Braeside |
| Diefenbunker / Central Emergency Government HeadquartersNational Historic Site · 1959–1962 · 48 km away, in Carp |
The 50 km around Lanark Highlands keep buildings from as early as 1830
The nearest historic places to Lanark Highlands, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
The earliest is McMartin House in Perth, begun in 1830. 11 places within 50 km have a date. Before Confederation: 4.
Lanark Highlands keeps more old homes than most towns: 27% from before 1961, against 18%
Count back from today and half of Lanark Highlands’s homes are older than 2001. Lanark Highlands’s largest group of homes, 28%, went up from 1981 to 2000. From 2016 to 2021 Lanark Highlands added 4.8% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Lanark Highlands’s people of the past, born 1828–1902
9 people on the record were born here before 1914. At 88, Andrew Harold Gibson outlived the rest, dying in 1971. Fame, by Wikipedia: Harold McMunn first, in 16 languages. Most of them, 6 of 9, came into the world in the decades after Confederation.
Everyone born in Lanark Highlands → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
How Lanark Highlands compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,300 to 6,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Beasley and Electoral Area C, Peace River have more. The typical town its size has 0. For 14, the registers list nothing.
Lanark Highlands in brief
Older stock first: 27% of homes in Lanark Highlands were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Of its people of the past, the best known are Harold McMunn (1902), Abraham Code (1828) and Thomas Boyd Caldwell (1856). Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
Questions about Lanark Highlands’s history
How many historic places does Lanark Highlands have on the registers?
Lanark Highlands has none of its own; Matheson House, in Perth, the closest at 24 km, holds the highest designation.
When did Lanark Highlands become a municipality?
By Wikidata, Lanark Highlands dates from July 1, 1997; the record doesn’t say whether that is a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
How old are the homes in Lanark Highlands?
The 2021 Census dates 27% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).