Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Stone Mills keeps its older homes: 38% from before 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Stone Mills has 2.2 times as much. Napanee Town Hall, 19 km from Stone Mills, heads a list of 42 historic places within 50 km. Greater Napanee, 21 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank. 10 people on record were born in Stone Mills before 1914, Allen Bristol Aylesworth the earliest.
Most of what stands within 50 km of Stone Mills dates from the years before Confederation
The area here stretches to 50 km around Stone Mills: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
40 places within 50 km have a date. 28 predate Confederation. Fort Frontenac, in Kingston, goes back furthest, to 1673.
19 km from Stone Mills: Napanee Town Hall, the nearest on the registers
All told, 42 places are within 50 km. The earliest date is Fort Frontenac’s, 1673, 38 km away. Their towns number 6: Kingston, Belleville and Greater Napanee first.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Napanee Town HallNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 19 km away, in Greater Napanee |
| Former Grand Trunk Railway (Canadian National Railways) Station, Ernestown, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1855–1857 · 24 km away, in Loyalist |
| Christ Church, Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the MohawkNational Historic Site · 1843–1844 · 30 km away, in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory |
| Cataraqui CemeteryNational Historic Site · 32 km away, in Kingston |
| Sir John A. Macdonald GravesiteNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 32 km away, in Kingston |
| Collins Bay Institution, Administration Building, A-1Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1931–1944 · 33 km away, in Kingston |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Kingston, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1855–1856 · 36 km away, in Kingston |
| RoselawnNational Historic Site · 1841–1842 · 36 km away, in Kingston |
| Kingston PenitentiaryNational Historic Site · 1834–1870 · 36 km away, in Kingston |
| Old Hay Bay ChurchNational Historic Site · 1792–1793 · 36 km away, in Greater Napanee |
| St. Helen's Complex, Stone GablesRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1924–1925 · 37 km away, in Kingston |
| Bellevue HouseNational Historic Site · 1840–1842 · 37 km away, in Kingston |
Little new building in Stone Mills: 2.4% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Over half of the homes in Stone Mills were already standing by 1981. Stone Mills built little from 1961 to 1980: 21% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 25% of Stone Mills’s, about the typical 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
One of Canada’s national historic persons, tied to Stone Mills
The most recent birth is Charles Jones’s, in 1910. Before 1914, 10 births here made the record. Weston Price is the most written about, in 11 languages. 6 of the 10 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Stone Mills → 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.
Stone Mills in brief
Before 1961: 38% of Stone Mills’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. Weston Price (1870), Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet (1862) and Charles Jones (1910) lead its people of the past. The rest is about typical: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Questions about Stone Mills’s history
How many historic places does Stone Mills have on the registers?
Stone Mills has none of its own; Napanee Town Hall, in Greater Napanee, the closest at 19 km, holds the highest designation.
How old are the homes in Stone Mills?
Before 1961: 38% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Stone Mills be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Stone Mills, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets 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).