TopNational Historic SiteMazinaw PictographsPhoto: D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of North Frontenac · Canada’s heritage registers
North Frontenac: 1 historic place, with the highest designation
North Frontenac’s 4 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 93% of Canadian towns. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 3.1% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
Historic places
1
4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Homes built before 1961
22%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Historic North Frontenac, pictured
Mazinaw Pictographs is the single place North Frontenac’s registers name, and here it is.
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.
The map
Where North Frontenac’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
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.
Highest designations
One place in North Frontenac with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The age of the area
Near North Frontenac, within 100 km: built places from 1673 on
No place near North Frontenac is close: these lie up to 100 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
New France before 17601
British North America 1760–186636
After Confederation 1867–191312
Wars and Depression 1914–19458
Since 1946 1946 on1
Within 100 km, building dates exist for 58 places. Before Confederation: 37. Oldest of all: Fort Frontenac, Kingston, 1673.
Around the town
Near North Frontenac, within 100 km: 47 places of national rank
Oldest of them is Fort Frontenac (1673), 81 km off. Closest of all is Matheson House, in Perth, 62 km off. The registers hold 61 within 100 km.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Matheson HouseNational Historic Site · 1840–1841 · 62 km away, in Perth |
| Perth Town HallNational Historic Site · 1863–1865 · 62 km away, in Perth |
| McMartin HouseNational Historic Site · 1830–1831 · 63 km away, in Perth |
| Napanee Town HallNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 66 km away, in Greater Napanee |
| Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Ernestown, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1855–1857 · 73 km away, in Loyalist |
| Christ Church, Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the MohawkNational Historic Site · 1843–1844 · 73 km away, in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory |
| Cataraqui CemeteryNational Historic Site · 75 km away, in Kingston |
| Sir John A. Macdonald GravesiteNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 75 km away, in Kingston |
| Old Stone MillNational Historic Site · 1810–1811 · 77 km away, in Rideau Lakes |
| Collins Bay Institution, Administration Building, A-1Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1931–1944 · 78 km away, in Kingston |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Carleton Place, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1921–1923 · 78 km away, in Carleton Place |
| Belleville Railway Station (Grand Trunk)National Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 78 km away, in Belleville |
Homes by age
North Frontenac’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 32% of its homes
North Frontenac has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 19%, where most towns have 15%. Before 1961: 22% of North Frontenac’s homes, near the usual 18%. More than half of North Frontenac’s housing predates 1981.
22%
Before 1961
32%
1961–80
24%
1981–2000
19%
2001–15
3.1%
2016–21
North FrontenacTypical 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
North Frontenac has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,500 to 2,500 residents, by places on the registers.
North Frontenac1
Just one has more: Lunenburg. Their median is 0. 9 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
North Frontenac and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Frontenac | 2,515 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Addington Highlands | 2,827 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
North Frontenac in brief
Counted by age, 22% of North Frontenac’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Mazinaw Pictographs. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. The other figures are unremarkable: its designation dates from 1982.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- 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. 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. 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.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
Questions about North Frontenac’s history
Which places in North Frontenac have the highest designation?
Mazinaw Pictographs.
How old are the homes in North Frontenac?
22% 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).