Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 4.0History around Puslinch: 14 designated places within 25 km
For the highest designations, the closest town to Puslinch is Guelph, 9.9 km off. John Idington heads a list of 5 people born in Puslinch before 1914.
Within 25 km of Puslinch, 6 top designations
14 places lie within 25 km. At 10 km, McCrae House in Guelph is the closest. Between them, 5 towns share them, mainly Guelph, Cambridge and Pioneer Tower West.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| McCrae HouseNational Historic Site · 1850–1861 · 10 km away, in Guelph |
| The BoathouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1930 · 10 km away, in Guelph |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1906–1908 · 11 km away, in Guelph |
| Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail/GO Transit) Station, Guelph, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1912 · 11 km away, in Guelph |
| Guelph City HallNational Historic Site · 1856–1858 · 11 km away, in Guelph |
| Our Lady of the Immaculate ConceptionNational Historic Site · 1876–1889 · 11 km away, in Guelph |
| Rockwood AcademyOntario Heritage Trust property · 1850 · 16 km away, in Rockwood |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Cambridge, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1898–1901 · 17 km away, in Cambridge |
| Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational SchoolDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1852 · 17 km away, in Cambridge |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1914–1916 · 17 km away, in Cambridge |
| Former Galt Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1884–1888 · 17 km away, in Cambridge |
| Waterloo Pioneer Memorial TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1925–1927 · 22 km away, in Pioneer Tower West |
Within 25 km of Puslinch, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
The nearest historic places to Puslinch, out to 25 km, by the first construction date on each record.
14 dated places within 25 km make up the record. 5 are older than 1867. The earliest is Homer Watson House in Pioneer Tower West, begun in 1834.
8.8% of Puslinch’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 27% of Puslinch’s homes. 26% of Puslinch’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Puslinch has 20% of its homes from before 1961.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Puslinch’s 5 natives of the years before 1914
William Alexander McKenzie closes the list, born in 1874. In 1840 came the earliest, John Idington. 4 Wikipedias cover John Idington, the most of anyone here. At 92, William Alexander McKenzie outlived the rest, dying in 1966.
Everyone born in Puslinch → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Puslinch and its neighbours
Puslinch in brief
Before 1961: 20% of Puslinch’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. John Idington (1840), William Alexander McKenzie (1874) and David Jamieson (1856) are the best known of its historic lives. The other figures are unremarkable: like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
Questions about Puslinch’s history
How many historic places does Puslinch have on the registers?
Not within Puslinch. Its nearest is a top designation: McCrae House, 10 km away in Guelph.
How old are the homes in Puslinch?
Before 1961: 20% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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).