Photo: J. S. (Steve) Bond · CC BY-SA 4.0An older town: 45% of Morris-Turnberry’s homes predate 1961
The typical town has 18%: Morris-Turnberry has 2.6 times the share. 62 places on the heritage registers lie within 100 km of Morris-Turnberry, the nearest Huron County Gaol, 38 km away. The closest top-tier heritage is in Huron-Kinloss, 33 km from here. Elias Disney heads a list of 3 people born in Morris-Turnberry before 1914.
Near Morris-Turnberry (100 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation
The nearest historic places to Morris-Turnberry, out to 100 km, by the first construction date on each record.
57 dated places within 100 km make up the record. 20 go back before 1867. Joseph Schneider Haus, in Victoria Park, is the oldest (1816).
Top-ranked heritage near Morris-Turnberry: 24 places within 100 km
The record reaches back to 1816 with Joseph Schneider Haus, 77 km away. At 38 km, Huron County Gaol in Goderich is the closest. 62 places lie within 100 km.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Huron County GaolNational Historic Site · 1839–1842 · 38 km away, in Goderich |
| Goderich Branch, Huron County LibraryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1904 · 39 km away, in Goderich |
| Goderich Train StationDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1900 · 39 km away, in Goderich |
| Point Clark LighthouseNational Historic Site · 1856–1860 · 47 km away, in Huron-Kinloss |
| Gallery StratfordDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1883 · 58 km away, in Stratford |
| Stratford City HallNational Historic Site · 1898–1900 · 58 km away, in Stratford |
| Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Stratford, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914 · 59 km away, in Stratford |
| St. Marys Junction Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1858–1859 · 66 km away, in St. Marys |
| St. MarysDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 67 km away, in St. Marys |
| Castle KilbrideNational Historic Site · 1877–1879 · 69 km away, in New Hamburg |
| West Montrose Covered BridgeDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 69 km away, in Elmira |
| McNab Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1877–1878 · 69 km away, in Port Elgin |
5.4% of Morris-Turnberry’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Morris-Turnberry built little from 1981 to 2000: 16% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 8.4% of Morris-Turnberry’s, against 15% in the typical town. Count back from today and half of Morris-Turnberry’s homes are older than 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born in Morris-Turnberry before the First World War: 3 lives
Elias Disney lived longest, to 82, dying in 1941. It starts with Elias Disney, born in 1859. At the other end is William Robert Rutledge, from 1866. Best known is Elias Disney, with articles in 11 Wikipedia languages.
Everyone born in Morris-Turnberry → 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 Morris-Turnberry compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,000 to 4,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Centremount, Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré and Smoky Lake County. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Morris-Turnberry and its neighbours
Morris-Turnberry in brief
The 2021 Census dates 45% of Morris-Turnberry’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Elias Disney (1859), William Robert Rutledge (1866) and Adolf Lehmann (1863) are the town’s people of the past on the record. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- 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 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. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Questions about Morris-Turnberry’s history
How many historic places does Morris-Turnberry have on the registers?
Not within Morris-Turnberry. Its nearest is a top designation: Huron County Gaol, 38 km away in Goderich.
How old are the homes in Morris-Turnberry?
Before 1961: 45% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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).