Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Matheson House · Photo: JustSomePics · CC BY-SA 3.0For Perth, that is 2.4 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Inside the town there are 3 historic places, all of them top designations. For its size this is rich ground: 4.3 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 94% of Canadian towns. Go back to 1830 and you reach McMartin House, the oldest of them.
Every place on Perth’s registers has a photo here. Two worth a look first: Matheson House and McMartin House. The pictures are the work of 3 photographers.
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.
Perth was founded in 1816. That makes it 210 years old. Perth is named after Perthshire, registration county in central Scotland.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Perth, Ontario”, revision 1377363913 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
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.
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.
Their dates run from 1830, with McMartin House, to 1863. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Designations came from 1966 to 1984. Each one opens its own page.
More than half of Perth’s housing predates 1981. Few of Perth’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 8.1%, the norm 15%. 24% of Perth’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The record holds 21 people born here before 1914. It starts with John Robson, born in 1824. Jack Asselstine closes the list, born in 1895. Of them all, Thomas Russ Deacon lived longest: 90 years, until 1955. Only the 20 best known fit the timeline.
Everyone born in Perth → Born before 1914. 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.
Towns of 6,900 to 7,100 residents, by places on the registers.
The typical town its size has 0. 9 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perth | 6,972 | 3 | 3 | 1830 |
| Drummond/North Elmsley | 8,817 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tay Valley | 6,171 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Smiths Falls | 11,093 | 4 | 2 | 1852 |
Before 1961: 41% of Perth’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 3 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, with McMartin House first. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places.
Within 400 m of Perth Town Hall stand 3 of the town’s places of the highest designation. Among the lives from its past: John Robson (1824), Alexander Morris (1826) and George Lister (1886). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its places were designated between 1966 and 1984.
The 2021 Census dates 41% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
They are McMartin House, Matheson House and Perth Town Hall.
By its record, McMartin House, from 1830 (National Historic Site).
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 22 more listings in Perth, 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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