Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Tier2Cell245 · CC BY 4.0Against 18% in the typical town, Pembroke has 2.7 times the share. Inside the town the registers count 1 historic place. For every 10,000 residents that makes 0.6, ahead of 76% of Canadian towns. Armoury, from 1914, is the town’s recognized federal heritage building.
By date: 4 old photographs of the town. Each dot on the line is a picture; tap one to open it full screen.
1878
c. 1906
c. 1906
1906Public 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.
As a municipality, Pembroke carries the date 1828 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. The legal status of Pembroke grew step by step: a village in 1858 and a town in 1878.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Pembroke, Ontario”, revision 1384564152 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
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.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The radius of 100 km holds 13. Among them are 5 National Historic Sites, 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 3 places classified by Québec. La Pêche, Mansfield-et-Pontefract and Pontiac hold most of them, among 8 towns.
| Fort WilliamClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1828 · 19 km away, in Petawawa |
| Félix-Gabriel-Marchand BridgeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1898 · 30 km away, in Mansfield-et-Pontefract |
| George Bryson HouseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1854 · 30 km away, in Mansfield-et-Pontefract |
| Gillies Grove and HouseNational Historic Site · 1937–1938 · 72 km away, in McNab/Braeside |
| D.A. Gillies BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 73 km away, in Arnprior |
| Maclaren HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1861–1872 · 94 km away, in La Pêche |
| Grist MillRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1838–1839 · 94 km away, in La Pêche |
| Fairbairn HouseMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1860 · 95 km away, in La Pêche |
| Herridge ChaletRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 96 km away, in Pontiac |
| Prime Minister's CottageRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1925–1926 · 97 km away, in Pontiac |
| Rosamond Woollen MillNational Historic Site · 1866–1901 · 97 km away, in Almonte |
| Former Almonte Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1889–1892 · 98 km away, in Almonte |
Count back from today and half of Pembroke’s homes are older than 1981. Pembroke built little from 2001 to 2015: 7.3% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 17% of Pembroke’s, against 23% 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.
The longest life here was Fred Kearney’s, 101 years, ending in 1998. There are 24 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. 16 Wikipedias cover Dave Trottier, the most of anyone here. Most of them, 20 of 24, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. The 20 best known are on the timeline.
Everyone born in Pembroke → 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 15,400 to 15,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Gaspé, Vieux-Longueuil and Lachute have more. The typical town its size has 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke | 15,479 | 1 | 0 | 1914 |
| Laurentian Valley | 9,714 | 0 | 0 | — |
| L'Isle-aux-Allumettes | 1,413 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Petawawa | 19,606 | 1 | 0 | 1953 |
Housing in Pembroke includes 48% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 3 have more historic places. Dave Trottier (1906), Frank Nighbor (1893) and Harry Cameron (1890) are the best known of its historic lives. Beyond that, its designation dates from 1992.
The 2021 Census dates 48% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
1 historic place inside Pembroke, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
Armoury (Recognized Federal Heritage Building): the first construction date on its record is 1914.
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).