Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Before 1961: 41% of the homes in Thessalon
The typical town has 18%: Thessalon has 2.3 times the share. The nearest heritage to Thessalon is Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, 65 km off, one of 12 places within 100 km. Thessalon appears in 2 old photographs, the earliest from 1905, the latest from 1920. Heritage of the first rank begins 66 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie.
Thessalon as it looked, 1905 to 1920
By date: 2 old photographs of the town. Swipe along the strip; each picture opens at full size.
c. 1905
1920Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The places within 100 km of Thessalon lean to the decades after Confederation
No place near Thessalon is close: these lie up to 100 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
Oldest of all: Ermatinger House, Sault Ste. Marie, 1812. 10 places within 100 km carry a construction date. One is older than 1867.
65 km from Thessalon: Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, the nearest on the registers
Among them are 4 National Historic Sites, 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 3 provincial or municipal listings. Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma, Unorganized, North Part hold most of them, among 2 towns. 12 places lie within 100 km.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian Bushplane Heritage CentreDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1987 · 65 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Ermatinger HouseNational Historic Site · 1812–1824 · 65 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Precious Blood CathedralOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1875 · 65 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Power HouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1894–1895 · 67 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| WorkshopRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1895–1897 · 67 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Office BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1895–1897 · 67 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Sault Ste. Marie CanalNational Historic Site · 1894–1896 · 67 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Whitefish IslandNational Historic Site · 67 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Superintendent's HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1896–1897 · 68 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Algoma Central Engine HouseNational Historic Site · 1912–1913 · 68 km away, in Sault Ste. Marie |
| Searchmont railway stationHeritage Railway Station of Canada · 70 km away, in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part |
| TowerRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1911–1912 · 99 km away, in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part |
41% of Thessalon’s homes were built before 1961
From 2016 to 2021 Thessalon added 3.6% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Only 4.5% of Thessalon’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Count back from today and half of Thessalon’s homes are older than 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Thessalon and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thessalon | 1,363 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Huron Shores | 2,030 | 0 | 0 | — |
Thessalon in brief
Of the homes standing in Thessalon, 41% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Jack Markle (1907) and John Fullerton (1912) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- 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 grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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 Thessalon’s history
How many historic places does Thessalon have on the registers?
None inside Thessalon yet. The nearest is Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, 65 km away in Sault Ste. Marie.
How old are the homes in Thessalon?
Before 1961: 41% 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).