National Historic SiteParkhillWest Corner Drive and Prance Road
Photo: Ainuvas · CC BY-SA 4.01historic place on the registers
History of Parkhill · Canada’s heritage registers
Parkhill keeps its older homes: 41% from before 1961
Against 18% in the typical town, Parkhill has 2.4 times the share. The registers list 1 historic place inside the town, and it carries the highest designation. Scaled to its population, 1.5 per 10,000 residents beats 83% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
1.5 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Homes built before 1961
41%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Parkhill’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Parkhill with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The age of the area
Within 50 km of Parkhill, the record goes back to 1827
No place near Parkhill is close: these lie up to 50 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
British North America 1760–18666
After Confederation 1867–191311
Wars and Depression 1914–19451
Since 1946 1946 on0
Middlesex County Court House, in Central London, goes back furthest, to 1827. 18 places within 50 km carry a construction date. 6 are older than 1867.
Around the town
Within 50 km of Parkhill, 6 top designations
Closest of all is Elsie-Perrin Williams Estate, in Masonville, 35 km off. The oldest, Middlesex County Court House, dates from 1827, 39 km away. 19 places lie within 50 km.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Elsie-Perrin Williams EstateDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1916 · 35 km away, in Masonville |
| St. Peter's SeminaryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1912 · 38 km away, in North London |
| Labatt ParkDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1877 · 39 km away, in West London |
| First Christian Reformed ChurchDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1882 · 39 km away, in Central London |
| Eldon HouseOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1834 · 39 km away, in Central London |
| Ridout Street ComplexNational Historic Site · 1838–1871 · 39 km away, in Central London |
| Middlesex County Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1827–1830 · 39 km away, in Central London |
| Grand TheatreDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1901 · 39 km away, in Central London |
| Victoria ParkDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1874 · 39 km away, in Central London |
| St. Paul's CathedralDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1846 · 39 km away, in Central London |
| Wolseley BarracksNational Historic Site · 1886–1889 · 40 km away, in Carling |
| London Normal SchoolOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1900 · 40 km away, in South London |
Homes by age
41% of Parkhill’s homes were built before 1961
Half of the homes standing in Parkhill today were built before 1981. Few of Parkhill’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 7.1%, the norm 15%. From 2016 to 2021 Parkhill added 3.8% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%.
41%
Before 1961
26%
1961–80
22%
1981–2000
7.1%
2001–15
3.8%
2016–21
ParkhillTypical 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, Parkhill gave 5 lives to the record
The latest, Arthur Lisle Thompson, was born in 1884. Fame, by Wikipedia: George Adam Elliott first, in 3 languages. Of them all, Thomas Magladery lived longest: 79 years, until 1954. George P. Smith comes first, born in 1873.
George P. Smith
George Adam Elliott
Thomas Magladery
John S. Ridley
Arthur Lisle Thompson
18501875190019251950
GE
George Adam Elliott1875–1944 · Canadian politician
AT
Arthur Lisle Thompson1884–1949 · Canadian politician
George P. Smith1873–1942 · Canadian politician
TM
Thomas Magladery1875–1954 · Canadian politician
JR
John S. Ridley1882–1934 · Manitoba politician
Everyone born in Parkhill → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns its size
Parkhill has the 1st most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,800 to 6,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Parkhill1
The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Parkhill and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parkhill | 6,864 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Forest | 12,962 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Parkhill in brief
Of the homes standing in Parkhill, 41% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all, one with the highest designation; Parkhill heads them. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. Among the lives from its past: George Adam Elliott (1875), Arthur Lisle Thompson (1884) and George P. Smith (1873). The rest is about typical: its designation dates from 1982.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
Questions about Parkhill’s history
How old are the homes in Parkhill?
41% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Which places in Parkhill have the highest designation?
Parkhill.
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).