Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Navy Island · Photo: Magnolia677 · CC BY 4.0The lists give Niagara Falls 7 historic places, 6 in the top tier. Per resident that is more than in 76% of Canadian towns: 0.6 for every 10,000 people. Among the places are a heritage railway station. 29 more places on provincial or local lists are counted from Wikidata without pages.
Every place on Niagara Falls’s registers has a photo here. Navy Island and R. Nathaniel Dett British Methodist Episcopal Church lead the set. 7 photographers took them.
R. Nathaniel Dett British Methodist Episcopal Church
Battle of Chippawa
Toronto Power Generating Station
Queenston-Chippawa Hydro-Electric Development
Battle of Lundy's Lane+2See all photosPhotos 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.
On one line by date: 8 old photographs of the town and the oldest view of one of its historic places. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
c. 1837
c. 1855
c. 1860
c. 1868
1870
1896
1908
1910
c. 1920Public 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.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
4 of the 7 dated places were built before Confederation.
By 1879 the place had a station: Niagara Falls railway station. Wikidata gives the municipality of Niagara Falls the date June 12, 1903, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
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.
The oldest, Navy Island, dates from 1761; the newest from 1917. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Their designations span 1921 to 2000. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
All told, 4 kinds of place appear. At the head of the list: Navy Island and Battle of Chippawa.
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Over half of the homes in Niagara Falls were already standing by 1981. New building is strong in Niagara Falls: 6.9% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. In Niagara Falls, 30% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
There are 14 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. Of them all, William Giauque lived longest: 87 years, until 1982. 11 of the 14 were born in the decades after Confederation. The widest known is William Giauque: 59 Wikipedia editions.
Everyone born in Niagara Falls → 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 103,900 to 124,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Victoria, Thunder Bay and Cape Breton. Their median is 5. For 3, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Falls | 113,983 | 7 | 6 | 1761 |
| Thorold | 33,844 | 1 | 1 | 1813 |
| St. Catharines | 153,865 | 6 | 1 | 1851 |
| Niagara-on-the-Lake | 20,080 | 28 | 13 | 1796 |
| Welland | 66,480 | 2 | 1 | 1814 |
| Pelham | 19,980 | 0 | 0 | — |
Niagara Falls’s homes from before 1961 come to 31%, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 7 historic places, 6 with the highest designation, including Navy Island. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places.
By date, the years before Confederation lead: 4 of 7. Its people of the past include William Giauque (1895), Charles B. Macdonald (1855) and Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882). The other figures are unremarkable: the list grew between 1921 and 2000.
Navy Island, a National Historic Site, begun in 1761.
These: Navy Island, Battle of Chippawa, Battle of Lundy's Lane, R. Nathaniel Dett British Methodist Episcopal Church, Toronto Power Generating Station and Queenston-Chippawa Hydro-Electric Development.
31% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 29 more listings in Niagara Falls, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
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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