Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Arlington Hotel · Photo: Benjamin Pickles · CC BY-SA 2.0The record has a provincial or municipal listing. Its oldest building on the record is Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, from 1830. Measured against its size, Paris’s 0.9 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 78% of Canadian towns. Local registers add 13 more places, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds their numbers and little else.
3 of the places on Paris’s heritage registers are pictured here; the others keep their register record. Of Paris’s most honoured places, 2 are photographed. The first two: Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead and Former Paris Town Hall.
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.
Set out by date: 2 old photographs of the town. Tap any picture to see it full screen.
c. 1905
c. 1905Public 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.
Rail service is on record from 1916, when Mount Pleasant station opened. A single date stands for Paris as a municipality on Wikidata, 1793, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
The oldest, Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, dates from 1830; the newest from 1874. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Their designations span 1989 to 2020. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
19% of Paris’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Before 1961: 31% of Paris’s homes, against 18% in most towns. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 19% of Paris’s, against 27% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless is remembered here at Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead. The oldest birth on the record is Charles Henry Fowler’s, in 1837. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 17 births here before 1914. Of them all, J. Murray Luck lived longest: 94 years, until 1993.
Everyone born in Paris → Born before 1914, or named by one of the town’s historic places. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris | 45,565 | 4 | 3 | 1830 |
| Brantford | 123,521 | 6 | 2 | 1858 |
| Ayr | 13,051 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Plattsville | 8,251 | 0 | 0 | — |
In Paris, 31% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 4 historic places, 3 with the highest designation. Among the lives from its past: George Bernard Flahiff (1905), Charles Henry Fowler (1837) and Peter Bryce (1853). Beyond that, 4 historic places is about usual for its size (the median is 2); and the designations ran from 1989 to 2020.
They are Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, Former Paris Town Hall and Penman Textile Mill.
31% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, a National Historic Site, begun in 1830.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 13 more listings in Paris, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
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).
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