Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Heritage within reach of Metcalfe: 7 places, 25 km or closer
For the highest designations, the closest town to Metcalfe is Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay, 23 km off. Of the 2 people born in Metcalfe before 1914, John C. Bowen came first.
3 places of national importance within 25 km of Metcalfe
Nearest comes Powell House, 19 km off, in Greenbelt (east). Billings House, 23 km off, is the oldest: 1828. The radius of 25 km holds 7.
The 7 nearest, within 25 km
| Powell HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 19 km away, in Greenbelt (east) |
| Sir Leonard Tilley BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1962 · 23 km away, in Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay |
| CBC BuildingClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1961–1965 · 23 km away, in Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay |
| Billings HouseNational Historic Site · 1828–1830 · 23 km away, in Billings Bridge - Heron Park |
| Sir Charles Tupper BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1955–1961 · 24 km away, in Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay |
| VIA Rail Station, Ottawa, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1965–1967 · 25 km away, in Riverview |
| Aberdeen PavilionNational Historic Site · 1898–1899 · 25 km away, in Glebe-Dows Lake |
The places within 25 km of Metcalfe lean to the years since 1946
Reaching 25 km out from Metcalfe: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
First by date comes Billings House in Billings Bridge - Heron Park, from 1828. 7 dated places within 25 km make up the record. One predates Confederation.
New homes are rare in Metcalfe: 2.7% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Half of the homes standing in Metcalfe today were built before 2001. The busiest building years in Metcalfe were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 39% of today’s homes. Like the typical town (18%), Metcalfe has 17% of its homes from before 1961.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Metcalfe and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metcalfe | 5,434 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Greely | 10,359 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Edwards - Carlsbad Springs | 3,536 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Embrun | 23,655 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Osgoode - Vernon | 6,398 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Findlay Creek | 14,089 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Manotick | 8,770 | 0 | 0 | — |
Metcalfe in brief
Before 1961: just 17% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and John C. Bowen (1872) and Jack Brannen (1874) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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 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.
- 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.
Questions about Metcalfe’s history
How many historic places does Metcalfe have on the registers?
None inside Metcalfe yet. The nearest is Powell House, 19 km away in Greenbelt (east).
How old are the homes in Metcalfe?
The 2021 Census dates 17% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).