Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Dunrobin and its setting: 5 historic places within 10 km
Its housing is mostly newer: 8.9% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. The nearest town with a top designation is Carp, 9.4 km away. 2 people on record were born in Dunrobin before 1914, Adam Acres the earliest.
Top-ranked heritage near Dunrobin: one place within 10 km
They are spread over 2 towns, including Des Explorateurs and Carp. Within 10 km there are 5 in all. The mix: 4 municipal citations and a National Historic Site.
The 5 nearest, within 10 km
| Maison Bolton-McGrathMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1842 · 8.9 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Maison Delormey-EdeyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1890 · 9.2 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Cimetière EdeyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 9.2 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
| Diefenbunker / Central Emergency Government HeadquartersNational Historic Site · 1959–1962 · 9.3 km away, in Carp |
| Maison James-Finlayson-TaylorMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1842–1843 · 9.7 km away, in Des Explorateurs |
The biggest share of Dunrobin’s homes dates from 1981 to 2000: 39%
Half of the homes standing in Dunrobin today were built before 2001. From 2016 to 2021 Dunrobin added 6% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Dunrobin has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 25%, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Dunrobin compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,700 to 5,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: New Edinburgh, Waterloo and Duncan. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have none.
Dunrobin and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunrobin | 5,724 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pontiac | 6,490 | 2 | 0 | 1880 |
| Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant | 15,509 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Carp | 5,621 | 1 | 1 | 1959 |
| Des Explorateurs | 31,128 | 33 | 1 | 1831 |
| Kanata Lakes | 19,861 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beaverbrook | 6,762 | 0 | 0 | — |
Dunrobin in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 8.9% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0. Everything else is close to the norm: its past has lives on the record such as George Russell Boucher (1899) and Adam Acres (1878).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- 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.
Questions about Dunrobin’s history
How many historic places does Dunrobin have on the registers?
None within Dunrobin itself; the nearest is 8.9 km off: Maison Bolton-McGrath, in Des Explorateurs.
How old are the homes in Dunrobin?
8.9% predate 1961, where 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).