Former Canadian National Railway Station, Newmarket, Ontario · Photo: Oaktree b · CC BY-SA 3.0
2historic places on the registers
History of Newmarket · Canada’s heritage registers
Newmarket has 2 historic places on the registers
The list takes in a heritage railway station and a provincial or municipal listing. The oldest dated place, Old Newmarket Town Hall and Courthouse, goes back to 1883. For every 10,000 residents Newmarket has 0.2, ahead of 71% of Canadian towns. There are also 20 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages.
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1883
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
10%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Past and present Newmarket: 2 photos, 4 old views
In front: “Former Canadian National Railway Station, Newmarket, Ontario” and Old Newmarket Town Hall and Courthouse. Both of Newmarket’s designated places are pictured.
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.
Through time
Old Newmarket, 1900 to 1940
3 old photographs of the town and the oldest view of one of its historic places, in date order. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
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Public 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.
How it began
Newmarket’s beginnings, from 1801
The record puts Newmarket’s founding in 1801. That makes it 225 years old. On paper, Newmarket became a village in 1857 and a town in 1880.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designationsProvincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 2, by tier
1 Other federal designations1 Provincial and local listings
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Other federal designations
One more federal designation in Newmarket
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Top-ranked heritage near Newmarket: 2 places within 10 km
They stand in 2 towns, Aurora and East Gwillimbury among them. The record reaches back to 1825 with Sharon Temple, 6 km away. Hillary House in Aurora is the nearest, 5.3 km away.
The 4 nearest, within 10 km
Hillary HouseNational Historic Site · 1861–1863 · 5.3 km away, in Aurora
Newmarket’s homes are mostly newer: 10% predate 1961, where most towns have 18%
Half of the homes standing in Newmarket today were built before 2001. The busiest building years in Newmarket were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 39% of today’s homes. From 2016 on, Newmarket built 5.9% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%.
10%
Before 1961
20%
1961–80
39%
1981–2000
25%
2001–15
5.9%
2016–21
NewmarketTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
A national historic person among Newmarket’s people of the past
Longest lived was Florence Shirley Patterson Jones, 87 years in all (2000). At the other end is Herb Cain, from 1913. 20 Wikipedias cover Mazo de la Roche, the most of anyone here. It starts with Featherston Osler, born in 1838.
Featherston Osler
Robert Allan Pyne
Muriel Irwin MacDonald
John Frederick Johnston
Mazo de la Roche
Jim Cain
Hobie Kitchen
Dit Clapper
Bill Thoms
Florence Shirley Patterson Jones
Herb Cain
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Mazo de la Roche1879–1961 · National historic person, 1976 · Canadian writer
DC
Dit Clapper1907–1978 · Canadian ice hockey player
HC
Herb Cain1913–1982 · Canadian ice hockey player
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Bill Thoms1910–1964 · Canadian ice hockey player
JC
Jim Cain1902–1962 · Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Hobie Kitchen1904– · Canadian ice hockey defenceman
JJ
John Frederick Johnston1876–1948 · Canadian politician
FO
Featherston Osler1838–1924 · Canadian judge
Everyone born in Newmarket → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
All told, Newmarket has 2 historic places. Mazo de la Roche (1879), Dit Clapper (1907) and Herb Cain (1913) are the best known of its historic lives. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 10% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: 2 historic places is about usual for its size (the median is 3); and its designation dates from 1992.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
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Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
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The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
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The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
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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.
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People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
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Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
Questions about Newmarket’s history
How many historic places does Newmarket have on the registers?
The registers list 2 historic places inside Newmarket.
What is the oldest building in Newmarket?
Old Newmarket Town Hall and Courthouse — its record dates it to 1883 (Designated heritage property (part IV)).
How old are the homes in Newmarket?
10% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Newmarket be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 20 further listings in Newmarket show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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.
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