Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Stratford City Hall · Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0The typical town has 18%: Stratford has 2.2 times the share. The lists give 4 historic places here, one in the top tier. The record has a Recognized Federal Heritage Building, a heritage railway station and a provincial or municipal listing. Of the dated places, Gallery Stratford is the oldest, from 1883.
Stratford City Hall and “Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Stratford, Ontario” lead the set. Of the places on Stratford’s registers, 3 have a photo here. Credit goes to 3 photographers, each named on the photo.
Photos 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.
Stratford is named after Stratford-upon-Avon, town in Warwickshire, England. The first railway station on record, Stratford railway station, opened in 1856. A single date stands for Stratford as a municipality on Wikidata, 1859, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
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.
They were designated between 1992 and 1994. By designation: a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. 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. Each one opens its own page.
Half of the homes standing in Stratford today were built before 1981. Only 17% of Stratford’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. In Stratford, 27% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The last born is Al Murray, in 1908. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 21 births here before 1914. Thomas Mayne Daly comes first, born in 1852. Longest lived was Frederick McCarthy, 93 years in all (1974). Only the 20 best known fit the timeline.
Everyone born in Stratford → 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 35,400 to 37,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Sorel-Tracy and Moose Jaw. The middle one has 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford | 36,097 | 4 | 1 | 1883 |
| Perth South | 4,055 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Perth East | 13,423 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St. Marys | 8,203 | 2 | 1 | 1858 |
Of the homes standing in Stratford, 38% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 4 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Stratford City Hall heads them. Just 2 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Frederick McCarthy (1881), Katherine Bitting (1869) and Frank Rankin (1891) are the best known of its historic lives. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the designations ran from 1976 to 1994.
Before 1961: 38% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
It is Stratford City Hall.
Gallery Stratford — its record dates it to 1883 (Designated heritage property (part IV)).
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 37 more listings in Stratford are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
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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