Photo: Chicken4War · CC BY-SA 4.0The heritage near Tiny: 5 places in a 25 km radius
Heritage of the first rank begins 18 km from Tiny, in Tay. Just beyond the boundary, the registers place one more.
4 places of the highest rank within 25 km of Tiny
The record reaches back to 1639 with Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons Mission, 12 km away. Closest of all is St. James on-the-Lines, in Penetanguishene, 11 km off. Count to 25 km and there are 5.
The 5 nearest, within 25 km
| St. James on-the-LinesOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1840 · 11 km away, in Penetanguishene |
| Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons MissionNational Historic Site · 1639 · 12 km away, in Tay |
| Saint-Louis MissionNational Historic Site · 1640 · 16 km away, in Tay |
| Beausoleil IslandNational Historic Site · 21 km away, in Georgian Bay |
| Mission of St. Ignace IINational Historic Site · 1649 · 21 km away, in Tay |
Just outside Tiny: 1
| Fort Sainte Marie IINational Historic Site · 3.6 km outside the town |
The 25 km around Tiny keep buildings from as early as 1639
The nearest historic places to Tiny, out to 25 km, by the first construction date on each record.
Within 25 km, building dates exist for 5 places. 5 predate Confederation. Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons Mission, in Tay, is the oldest (1639).
Most of Tiny’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 29%
Over half of the homes in Tiny were already standing by 2001. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 make up 5.7% of Tiny’s, above the typical 4.1%. Before 1961: 18% of Tiny’s homes, near the usual 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Tiny compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 14,100 to 14,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Rosemère, Sandwich, Matane, Greenwood-Coxwell and Junction Area have more. Their median is 0. 11 of them have none.
Tiny and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny | 14,195 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Penetanguishene | 11,141 | 1 | 0 | 1840 |
| Midland | 19,305 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tay | 11,968 | 3 | 3 | 1639 |
Tiny in brief
Tiny has 18% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0. Everything else is close to the norm: one person of its past, Emile Marchildon (1888).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
Questions about Tiny’s history
How many historic places does Tiny have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Tiny; St. James on-the-Lines, in Penetanguishene, is 11 km away.
How old are the homes in Tiny?
The 2021 Census dates 18% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Tiny be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Tiny is known through Wikidata alone, so it is 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).