Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Capitol Theatre · Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Against 18% in the typical town, Port Hope has 2.2 times the share. The lists give 4 historic places here, one in the top tier. St. Mark's Church, begun in 1822, is the oldest by its record. Counted by designation, there are 2 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station.
In front: Capitol Theatre and “Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Port Hope, Ontario”. 3 of the places on Port Hope’s heritage registers are pictured here; the others keep their register record. The pictures are the work of 3 photographers.
Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Port Hope, Ontario
St. Mark's ChurchPhotos 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.
4 old photographs of the town, then the oldest view of one of its historic places, set out by date. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
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1913Public 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.
Little Station, the earliest station on record, opened in 1850. A change of name came to Port Hope in 1817. Port Hope was incorporated as a town in 1834.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Port Hope, Ontario”, revision 1377097978 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. St. Mark's Church and Capitol Theatre lead the list. Each one opens its own page.
From 2016 to 2021 Port Hope added 4% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Few of Port Hope’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 16%, the norm 23%. Over half of the homes in Port Hope were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Fame, by Wikipedia: William Sowden Sims first, in 12 languages. 11 of the 18 were born in the years before Confederation. It starts with Gilbert Belnap, born in 1821. The last born is Watson Kirkconnell, in 1895.
Everyone born in Port Hope → 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 18,200 to 18,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Deux-Montagnes and Downtown Yonge East have more. The typical town its size has 1. 8 of them have none.
Older stock first: 38% of homes in Port Hope were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 4 historic places, one with the highest designation, including Port Hope Capitol Theatre. Just 2 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Among the lives from its past: William Sowden Sims (1858), John Alexander Low Waddell (1854) and Victor Williams (1867). The other figures are unremarkable: the list grew between 1992 and 2016.
38% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Port Hope Capitol Theatre.
St. Mark's Church, a Designated heritage property (part IV), begun in 1822.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 49 more listings in Port Hope, 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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