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Photo: Gogerr · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes from before 1961 make up 32% of Thorold’s stock, above the 18% of the typical town. Battle of Beaver Dams, from 1813, is the town’s national historic site. Thorold has 0.3 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 72% of Canadian towns. There are also 8 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages.
The photo shows Battle of Beaver Dams, the one place on Thorold’s registers.
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One old photograph of the town, made before 1950. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1904Public 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.
Thorold was incorporated as a town in 1875. 1850 is the date of Thorold’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Thorold”, revision 1376965022 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
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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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The earliest date is Navy Island’s, 1761, 18 km away. Count to 25 km and there are 32. “Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal Church”, 6.7 km off, is the nearest of 22 top-tier places.
| VIA Rail Station, St. Catharines, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 5.5 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Site · 1851–1856 · 6.7 km away, in St. Catharines |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1905–1906 · 6.8 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Battle of Lundy's LaneNational Historic Site · 1814 · 10 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| R. Nathaniel Dett British Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Site · 1836–1837 · 11 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| Front Range LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1879–1881 · 12 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Toronto Power Generating StationNational Historic Site · 1903–1914 · 12 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Niagara Falls, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1879–1880 · 13 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| Battle of Cook's MillsNational Historic Site · 1814 · 13 km away, in Welland |
| Welland Canal, Bridge 13Designated heritage property (part IV) · 1930 · 13 km away, in Welland |
| Queenston HeightsNational Historic Site · 1812–1813 · 15 km away, in Niagara-on-the-Lake |
| Brock’s MonumentClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1853–1857 · 15 km away, in Niagara-on-the-Lake |
Count back from today and half of Thorold’s homes are older than 1981. Thorold built little from 2001 to 2015: 9.7% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 23% of Thorold’s, about the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
At 100, Martha Cartmell outlived the rest, dying in 1945. Best known is Edward Wentworth Beatty, with articles in 6 Wikipedia languages. There are 6 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. Most of them, 3 of 6, came into the world in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Thorold → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorold | 33,844 | 1 | 1 | 1813 |
| St. Catharines | 153,865 | 6 | 1 | 1851 |
| Niagara Falls | 113,983 | 7 | 6 | 1761 |
| Pelham | 19,980 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Welland | 66,480 | 2 | 1 | 1814 |
| Niagara-on-the-Lake | 20,080 | 28 | 13 | 1796 |
| Beamsville | 28,356 | 0 | 0 | — |
Thorold has 32% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Battle of Beaver Dams. Of its people of the past, the best known are Edward Wentworth Beatty (1877), Martha Cartmell (1845) and Arthur Boyle (1842). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: one historic place is about usual for its size (the median is 1); and its one place was designated in 1921.
It is Battle of Beaver Dams.
The 2021 Census dates 32% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Battle of Beaver Dams (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1813.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 8 more listings in Thorold, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get 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).
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