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History of Oro-Medonte · Canada’s heritage registers
Oro-Medonte: 1 historic place, with the highest designation
Oro-Medonte’s entry is Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church (1849), a national historic site. Wikidata gives 1994 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged. Oro-Medonte has 0.4 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 73% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
0.4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1849
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
15%
typical town: 18%
Through time
The old face of Oro-Medonte
The past in one picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1849Public 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.
The map
Where Oro-Medonte’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
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.
Highest designations
One place in Oro-Medonte 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
Within 25 km of Oro-Medonte: 5 places on the registers
Oldest of them is Mission of St. Ignace II (1649), 22 km off. At 15 km, “Canadian National Railway Station, Orillia, Ontario” in Orillia is the closest. Between them, 4 towns share them, mainly Orillia, Ramara and Barrie.
The 5 nearest, within 25 km
| Canadian National Railway Station, Orillia, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 15 km away, in Orillia |
| Stephen Leacock Museum / Old Brewery BayNational Historic Site · 1928–1929 · 16 km away, in Orillia |
| Mnjikaning Fish WeirsNational Historic Site · 1650 · 17 km away, in Ramara |
| Canadian National Railways Allandale Station at Barrie, Allandale / Barrie, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1906 · 21 km away, in Barrie |
| Mission of St. Ignace IINational Historic Site · 1649 · 22 km away, in Tay |
Homes by age
7.4% of Oro-Medonte’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Half of the homes standing in Oro-Medonte today were built before 2001. The busiest building years in Oro-Medonte were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 30% of today’s homes. Like the typical town (18%), Oro-Medonte has 15% of its homes from before 1961.
15%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
30%
1981–2000
19%
2001–15
7.4%
2016–21
Oro-MedonteTypical 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
Before 1914, Oro-Medonte gave 4 lives to the record
Duncan Fletcher McCuaig closes the list, born in 1889. Mary Esther MacGregor lived longest, to 89, dying in 1961. By Wikipedia’s reach, Thomas Edwin Ross leads, with 5 articles. The first on the line is Thomas William O'Brien (1859).
Thomas William O'Brien
Mary Esther MacGregor
Thomas Edwin Ross
Duncan Fletcher McCuaig
18501875190019251950
TR
Thomas Edwin Ross1873–1951 · Canadian politician
DM
Duncan Fletcher McCuaig1889–1950 · Canadian politician
Mary Esther MacGregor1872–1961 · Canadian writer
TO
Thomas William O'Brien1859–1916 · Canadian businessman
Everyone born in Oro-Medonte → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Neighbours
Oro-Medonte and its neighbours
In brief
Oro-Medonte in brief
All told, Oro-Medonte has 1 historic place, one with the highest designation; Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church heads the list. Among the lives from its past: Thomas Edwin Ross (1873), Duncan Fletcher McCuaig (1889) and Mary Esther MacGregor (1872). Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 15%, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, it has one historic place, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and its one place was designated in 2000.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
Questions about Oro-Medonte’s history
Which places in Oro-Medonte have the highest designation?
Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church.
What is the oldest building in Oro-Medonte?
Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church — its record dates it to 1849 (National Historic Site).
How old are the homes in Oro-Medonte?
15% 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).