Photo: Fdesjardins · CC BY 3.0History around Vars: 210 designated places within 50 km
For the highest designations, the closest town to Vars is Billings Bridge - Heron Park, 26 km off. 4.3% of its homes went up between 2016 and 2021; the typical town built 4.1%.
Powell House, 17 km from Vars, is the closest
Between them, 30 towns share them, mainly Centretown, Des Explorateurs and Les Golfs. For the highest designations, the nearest of 59 is Billings House, 26 km away. The record reaches back to 1820 with Saint James cemetery, 31 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Powell HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 17 km away, in Greenbelt (east) |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Casselman, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1938–1940 · 21 km away, in Casselman |
| Masson railway stationHeritage Railway Station of Canada · 21 km away, in Bassin-de-la-Lièvre |
| VIA Rail Station, Ottawa, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1965–1967 · 25 km away, in Riverview |
| Billings HouseNational Historic Site · 1828–1830 · 26 km away, in Billings Bridge - Heron Park |
| Beechwood CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873–1874 · 26 km away, in Manor Park |
| Aberdeen PavilionNational Historic Site · 1898–1899 · 27 km away, in Glebe-Dows Lake |
| Sir Leonard Tilley BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1962 · 27 km away, in Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay |
| CBC BuildingClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1961–1965 · 27 km away, in Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay |
| Patterson Creek PavilionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1923–1924 · 27 km away, in Glebe-Dows Lake |
| Laurier HouseNational Historic Site · 1878–1879 · 27 km away, in Sandy Hill |
| First Avenue Public SchoolDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1898 · 27 km away, in Glebe-Dows Lake |
Around Vars, within 50 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
The area here stretches to 50 km around Vars: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
187 dated places within 50 km make up the record. 60 go back before 1867. First by date comes Saint James cemetery in Du Parc, from 1820.
The biggest share of Vars’s homes dates from 1981 to 2000: 30%
Half of the homes standing in Vars today were built before 2001. 24% of Vars’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Vars has 18% 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.
How Vars compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,800 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, Front of Yonge and Little Current. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Vars and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vars | 2,767 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Navan - Sarsfield | 2,853 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Embrun | 23,655 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Edwards - Carlsbad Springs | 3,536 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Portobello South | 29,960 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cardinal Creek | 11,676 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Chapel Hill South | 14,278 | 0 | 0 | — |
Vars in brief
The 2021 Census dates 18% of Vars’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Vars’s history
How many historic places does Vars have on the registers?
None within Vars itself; the nearest is 17 km off: Powell House, in Greenbelt (east).
How old are the homes in Vars?
18% 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).