Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Parry Sound, Ontario · Photo: Mcbda99p · CC BY-SA 3.0The typical town has 18%: Parry Sound has 2.3 times the share. Canada’s heritage registers list 2 historic places inside the town. On the list: a heritage railway station and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Of the dated places, Lighttower; Byng Inlet Front Range is the oldest, from 1890.
Parry Sound took its legal form as a town in 1887. Parry Sound station, the earliest station on record, opened in 1932.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Parry Sound, Ontario”, revision 1378785896 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
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.
Here that means a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. The oldest, Lighttower; Byng Inlet Front Range, dates from 1890; the newest from 1907. Each one opens its own page.
Of 11 top designations nearby, Beausoleil Island is the closest, at 55 km. The earliest date is Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons Mission’s, 1639, 70 km away. They belong to 13 towns, chiefly Tay, Collingwood and Orillia.
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1888–1890 · 44 km away, in The Archipelago |
| Beausoleil IslandNational Historic Site · 55 km away, in Georgian Bay |
| Fort Sainte Marie IINational Historic Site · 1649–1650 · 59 km away, in Tiny |
| St. James on-the-LinesOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1840 · 63 km away, in Penetanguishene |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Huntsville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1924–1925 · 63 km away, in Huntsville |
| Lighthouse and DwellingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 66 km away, in Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part |
| Woodchester VillaOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1882 · 66 km away, in Bracebridge |
| Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons MissionNational Historic Site · 1639 · 70 km away, in Tay |
| Bethune Memorial HouseNational Historic Site · 1880–1881 · 70 km away, in Gravenhurst |
| Saint-Louis MissionNational Historic Site · 1640 · 72 km away, in Tay |
| Mission of St. Ignace IINational Historic Site · 1649 · 74 km away, in Tay |
| LighttowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1857–1859 · 92 km away, in Collingwood |
Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 16% of Parry Sound’s, against 23% in the typical town. From 2016 on, Parry Sound built 3.4% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. More than half of Parry Sound’s housing predates 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In 1885 came the earliest, Allan Loney. 4 Wikipedias cover Gerald Carson, the most of anyone here. The line ends with Elmer Roy Smith (1913). John Brackenborough reached 96, the longest life here, ending in 1993.
Everyone born in Parry Sound → 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 of 7,500 to 7,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Digby and University have more. The typical town its size has 1. 8 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parry Sound | 7,584 | 2 | 0 | 1890 |
| The Archipelago | 1,057 | 0 | 0 | — |
| McDougall | 3,002 | 0 | 0 | — |
| McKellar | 1,534 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Carling | 1,609 | 1 | 0 | 1893 |
| Seguin | 5,761 | 1 | 0 | — |
In Parry Sound, 41% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 2 historic places. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are Gerald Carson (1905), Allan Loney (1885) and John Brackenborough (1897). The rest is about typical: its places were designated between 1994 and 2008.
41% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
2 historic places in Parry Sound, from Canada’s heritage registers.
By its record, Lighttower; Byng Inlet Front Range, from 1890 (Recognized Federal Heritage Building).
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Parry Sound, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets 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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