Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Lindsay’s entry is Canal Lake Concrete Arch Bridge (1905), a national historic site. Relative to its size Lindsay has 0.1 per 10,000 residents, more than 71% of Canadian towns.
Lindsay’s one designated place, Canal Lake Concrete Arch Bridge, is pictured here.
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 past in one picture: one old photograph of the town. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
1911Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
For the municipality of Lindsay itself, Wikidata records 2001, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger. Rail service is on record from 1889, when Fenelon Falls station opened.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Among them are 6 National Historic Sites and 3 provincial or municipal listings. The oldest, Cathedral of Saint Peter-in-Chains, dates from 1837, 34 km away. Between them, 4 towns share them, mainly Peterborough, Beaverton and Port Perry.
| Old Stone ChurchNational Historic Site · 1840–1854 · 31 km away, in Beaverton |
| Cathedral of Saint Peter-in-ChainsDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1837 · 34 km away, in Peterborough |
| Cox TerraceNational Historic Site · 1884–1885 · 34 km away, in Peterborough |
| Peterborough Drill Hall / ArmouryNational Historic Site · 1907–1910 · 34 km away, in Peterborough |
| Market Hall Performing Arts CentreDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1890 · 35 km away, in Peterborough |
| St. John the Evangelist Anglican ChurchOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1837 · 35 km away, in Peterborough |
| Peterborough Lift LockNational Historic Site · 1896–1905 · 36 km away, in Peterborough |
| Former Port Perry Town HallNational Historic Site · 1873–1874 · 39 km away, in Port Perry |
| Leaskdale ManseNational Historic Site · 1886–1887 · 42 km away, in Uxbridge |
Count back from today and half of Lindsay’s homes are older than 1981. Lindsay’s largest group of homes, 29%, went up from 1961 to 1980. From 2016 on, Lindsay built 3.8% of its homes, near the typical 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.
Before 1914, 28 births here made the record. Most of them, 25 of 28, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. 10 Wikipedias cover J. Carson Mark, the most of anyone here. Longest lived was Elizabeth Bagshaw, 101 years in all (1982). The timeline keeps to the 20 best known.
Everyone born in Lindsay → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Lindsay’s homes from before 1961 come to 27%, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all, one with the highest designation; Canal Lake Concrete Arch Bridge heads them. Of its people of the past, the best known are J. Carson Mark (1913), Fergus Patrick McEvay (1852) and Joe Primeau (1906). The other figures are unremarkable: it has one historic place, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 3); and its one place was designated in 1988.
It is Canal Lake Concrete Arch Bridge.
Canal Lake Concrete Arch Bridge (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1905.
The 2021 Census dates 27% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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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).
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