National Historic Site · 1937–1938Gillies Grove and House412 Gillies Grove
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.01historic place on the registers
History of McNab/Braeside · Canada’s heritage registers
One place in McNab/Braeside, at the top of the registers
Gillies Grove and House, from 1937, is McNab/Braeside’s national historic site. For every 10,000 residents McNab/Braeside has 1.2, ahead of 81% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
1.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1937
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
27%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where McNab/Braeside’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
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in McNab/Braeside 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
11 places of national importance within 50 km of McNab/Braeside
The oldest, Maison Joseph-Lebel, dates from 1824, 49 km away. Their towns number 11: Des Explorateurs, Chelsea and Du Plateau first. At 8.3 km, D.A. Gillies Building in Arnprior is the closest.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| D.A. Gillies BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 8.3 km away, in Arnprior |
| Rosamond Woollen MillNational Historic Site · 1866–1901 · 28 km away, in Almonte |
| Former Almonte Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1889–1892 · 28 km away, in Almonte |
| Diefenbunker / Central Emergency Government HeadquartersNational Historic Site · 1959–1962 · 32 km away, in Carp |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1921–1923 · 39 km away, in Carleton Place |
| Prime Minister's CottageRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1925–1926 · 44 km away, in Pontiac |
| Herridge ChaletRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 44 km away, in Pontiac |
| Maison Bolton-McGrathMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1842 · 45 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Cimetière EdeyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 45 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Maison Delormey-EdeyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1890 · 45 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Maison James-Finlayson-TaylorMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1842–1843 · 46 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Maison William-McLeanMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1865 · 46 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
Homes by age
27% of McNab/Braeside’s homes are older than 1961, against a usual 18%
New building in McNab/Braeside runs at the usual pace: 3.8% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%. The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 32% of McNab/Braeside’s homes. Over half of the homes in McNab/Braeside were already standing by 1981.
27%
Before 1961
24%
1961–80
32%
1981–2000
14%
2001–15
3.8%
2016–21
McNab/BraesideTypical 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
McNab/Braeside has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,300 to 8,400 residents, by places on the registers.
McNab/Braeside1
The typical town its size has 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
McNab/Braeside and its neighbours
In brief
McNab/Braeside in brief
Of the homes standing in McNab/Braeside, 27% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, with Gillies Grove and House first. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. The rest is about typical: Morrison Mann MacBride (1877) is its person of the past on the record; and its one place was designated in 1994.
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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about McNab/Braeside’s history
Which places in McNab/Braeside have the highest designation?
Gillies Grove and House.
What is the oldest building in McNab/Braeside?
Gillies Grove and House, a National Historic Site, begun in 1937.
How old are the homes in McNab/Braeside?
27% 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).