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Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Ernestown, Ontario · Photo: cygk · CC BY 2.0Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Ernestown, Ontario, from 1855, is Loyalist’s heritage railway station. Relative to its size Loyalist has 0.5 per 10,000 residents, more than 74% of Canadian towns.
One old photograph of the town, joined by the oldest view of one of its historic places, from oldest to latest. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
c. 1856
c. 1905Public 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.
Rail service is on record from 1855, when Ernestown Railway Station opened. The date Wikidata keeps for Loyalist is January 1, 1998; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Among them are 23 National Historic Sites, 8 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 3 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings. At 11 km, “Collins Bay Institution, Administration Building, A-1” in Kingston is the closest. They stand in 3 towns, Kingston, Frontenac Islands and Greater Napanee among them.
| Collins Bay Institution, Administration Building, A-1Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1931–1944 · 11 km away, in Kingston |
| Sir John A. Macdonald GravesiteNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 13 km away, in Kingston |
| Cataraqui CemeteryNational Historic Site · 13 km away, in Kingston |
| Kingston PenitentiaryNational Historic Site · 1834–1870 · 14 km away, in Kingston |
| RoselawnNational Historic Site · 1841–1842 · 14 km away, in Kingston |
| St. Helen's Complex, Stone GablesRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1924–1925 · 14 km away, in Kingston |
| Bellevue HouseNational Historic Site · 1840–1842 · 15 km away, in Kingston |
| Kingston General HospitalNational Historic Site · 1833–1925 · 15 km away, in Kingston |
| Ann Baillie BuildingNational Historic Site · 1903–1905 · 16 km away, in Kingston |
| Murney TowerNational Historic Site · 1846–1847 · 16 km away, in Kingston |
| Kingston FortificationsNational Historic Site · 1832–1841 · 16 km away, in Kingston |
| Frontenac County Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1855–1859 · 16 km away, in Kingston |
Loyalist’s largest group of homes, 35%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Before 1961: 20% of Loyalist’s homes, near the usual 18%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 20% of Loyalist’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The oldest birth on the record is Peter Perry’s, in 1792. Best known is James Lapum, with articles in 3 Wikipedia languages. Emily Julian McManus closes the list, born in 1865. At 80, William Metzler outlived the rest, dying in 1943.
Everyone born in Loyalist → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 19,600 to 19,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Only North End and Kirkland have more. The middle one has 0. 11 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loyalist | 19,761 | 1 | 0 | 1855 |
| Kingston | 149,527 | 95 | 38 | 1673 |
Housing in Loyalist includes 20% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are James Lapum (1819), William Metzler (1863) and Sidney Badgley (1850). Everything else is close to the norm: its designation dates from 1992.
Inside Loyalist: 1 historic place.
Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Ernestown, Ontario (Heritage Railway Station): the first construction date on its record is 1855.
20% 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).
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