Photo: Balcer · CC BY 2.5Within 50 km of Shelburne, 7 places are on the heritage registers
The closest top-tier heritage to Shelburne is in Angus, 38 km away. The 2021 Census dates 12% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.
27 km from Shelburne: Claverleigh, the nearest on the registers
The radius of 50 km holds 7. They stand in 5 towns, Collingwood, Fergus and Stayner among them. Among them are 5 National Historic Sites, a provincial or municipal listing and a Classified Federal Heritage Building.
The 7 nearest, within 50 km
| ClaverleighNational Historic Site · 1871–1872 · 27 km away, in Stayner |
| Royal Flying Corps HangarsNational Historic Site · 1917–1918 · 32 km away, in Angus |
| Collingwood Downtown Heritage Conservation DistrictHeritage conservation district · 46 km away, in Collingwood |
| Wellington County House of Industry and RefugeNational Historic Site · 1876–1878 · 46 km away, in Fergus |
| Federal BuildingClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1913–1916 · 46 km away, in Collingwood |
| Glengarry LandingNational Historic Site · 1814 · 47 km away, in Springwater |
| Former Elora Drill ShedNational Historic Site · 1865–1866 · 48 km away, in Fergus |
Around Shelburne, within 50 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
No place near Shelburne is close: these lie up to 50 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
Glengarry Landing, in Springwater, is the oldest (1814). 6 places within 50 km have a date. Before Confederation: 2.
The biggest share of Shelburne’s homes dates from 2001 to 2015: 35%
Half of the homes standing in Shelburne today were built before 2001. Homes from before 1961 are 16% of Shelburne’s housing, about the typical 18%. Only 15% of Shelburne’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Shelburne compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,700 to 10,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Eastern Passage, Contrecoeur and Alexandria have more. The typical town its size has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Shelburne and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelburne | 10,767 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Melancthon | 3,581 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Amaranth | 4,808 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mulmur | 3,813 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mono | 10,036 | 0 | 0 | — |
Shelburne in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 16% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
Questions about Shelburne’s history
How many historic places does Shelburne have on the registers?
Nothing inside Shelburne; Claverleigh in Stayner, 27 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Shelburne?
16% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).