Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Battle of Cook's Mills · Photo: Qviri · CC BY-SA 2.5Counted by designation, there are a provincial or municipal listing. More of its homes are old than in most towns: 36% before 1961, against 18%. The earliest construction date, 1814, belongs to Battle of Cook's Mills. For every 10,000 residents Welland has 0.3, ahead of 72% of Canadian towns.
Look out for Battle of Cook's Mills and “Welland Canal, Bridge 13”. Both of Welland’s designated places are pictured.
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.
From before 1950 comes one old photograph of the town. Open it full screen with a tap.
1930Public 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.
As a municipality, Welland carries the date 1788 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. Its charter made Welland a city in 1917.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Welland”, revision 1383683852 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
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.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Navy Island, 21 km off, is the oldest: 1761. 15 places lie within 25 km. Battle of Beaver Dams in Thorold is the nearest, 15 km away.
| Battle of Beaver DamsNational Historic Site · 1813 · 15 km away, in Thorold |
| Battle of Lundy's LaneNational Historic Site · 1814 · 17 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| Toronto Power Generating StationNational Historic Site · 1903–1914 · 17 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| R. Nathaniel Dett British Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Site · 1836–1837 · 17 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| VIA Rail Station, St. Catharines, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 17 km away, in St. Catharines |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1905–1906 · 19 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Site · 1851–1856 · 19 km away, in St. Catharines |
| Ridgeway BattlefieldNational Historic Site · 1866 · 20 km away, in Fort Erie |
| Battle of ChippawaNational Historic Site · 1814 · 20 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Niagara Falls, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1879–1880 · 20 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| Navy IslandNational Historic Site · 1761–1762 · 21 km away, in Niagara Falls |
| Point Abino Light TowerNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 22 km away, in Fort Erie |
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 4.7% of Welland’s, about the typical 4.1%. Welland built little from 2001 to 2015: 11% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Over half of the homes in Welland were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welland | 66,480 | 2 | 1 | 1814 |
| Pelham | 19,980 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Port Colborne | 21,921 | 1 | 1 | 1924 |
| Thorold | 33,844 | 1 | 1 | 1813 |
| Wainfleet | 7,329 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Niagara Falls | 113,983 | 7 | 6 | 1761 |
Before 1961: 36% of Welland’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. There are 2 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Battle of Cook's Mills heads them. For the rest, 2 historic places is about usual for its size (the median is 2); its past has lives on the record such as Roy Schooley (1880) and J. Stewart Marshall (1911); and its one place was designated in 1921.
36% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
It is Battle of Cook's Mills.
Battle of Cook's Mills, a National Historic Site, begun in 1814.
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 12 further listings in Welland show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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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