Photo: Eric Marshall · CC BY 3.0Beyond Smithville’s limits, 61 historic places within 50 km
The nearest town to Smithville with a top designation is Fruitland, 19 km away. The 2021 Census dates 9% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.
Within 50 km of Smithville: 61 places on the registers
By designation: 40 National Historic Sites, 8 provincial or municipal listings and 8 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. The first one out is Erland Lee (Museum) Home, 18 km away in Fruitland. Navy Island, 45 km off, is the oldest: 1761.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Erland Lee (Museum) HomeNational Historic Site · 1808–1809 · 18 km away, in Fruitland |
| Battle of Stoney CreekNational Historic Site · 1813 · 22 km away, in Battlefield |
| Battlefield HouseOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1796 · 22 km away, in Battlefield |
| Hamilton WaterworksNational Historic Site · 1856–1860 · 25 km away, in Parkview West |
| VIA Rail Station, St. Catharines, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 25 km away, in St. Catharines |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1905–1906 · 26 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Site · 1851–1856 · 27 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Front Range LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1879–1881 · 27 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Welland Canal, Bridge 13Designated heritage property (part IV) · 1930 · 27 km away, in Welland |
| Ruthven ParkNational Historic Site · 1845–1847 · 29 km away, in Caledonia |
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1846–1849 · 29 km away, in Caledonia |
| Battle of Beaver DamsNational Historic Site · 1813 · 29 km away, in Thorold |
The places within 50 km of Smithville lean to the years before Confederation
The nearest historic places to Smithville, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
Navy Island, in Niagara Falls, goes back furthest, to 1761. 60 places within 50 km have a date. 40 predate Confederation.
Most of Smithville’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 25%
Over half of the homes in Smithville were already standing by 2001. 23% of Smithville’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Homes from before 1961 are 19% of Smithville’s housing, about the typical 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Smithville and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithville | 16,586 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Grimsby | 31,478 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beamsville | 28,356 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Fifty Point | 3,690 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Industrial | 6,690 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Trillium | 2,967 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westmeria | 2,646 | 0 | 0 | — |
Smithville in brief
Housing in Smithville includes 19% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed; and its past has one life on the record, Gordon Shrum (1896).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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.
Questions about Smithville’s history
How many historic places does Smithville have on the registers?
Smithville has none of its own; Erland Lee (Museum) Home, in Fruitland, the closest at 18 km, holds the highest designation.
How old are the homes in Smithville?
19% 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).