Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.013 heritage places lie within 25 km of Wellesley
The nearest town to Wellesley with a top designation is New Hamburg, 15 km away. The earliest of 2 people born in Wellesley before 1914 is Almon Rennie.
Near Wellesley, within 25 km: 3 places of national rank
Oldest of them is Joseph Schneider Haus (1816), 21 km off. Waterloo, City Commercial Core and New Hamburg hold most of them, among 9 towns. The first one out is Castle Kilbride, 14 km away in New Hamburg.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Castle KilbrideNational Historic Site · 1877–1879 · 14 km away, in New Hamburg |
| Brubacher HouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1850 · 16 km away, in Waterloo |
| Huether HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 18 km away, in Waterloo |
| Erb-Kumpf HouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 19 km away, in Waterloo |
| Elizabeth Ziegler Public SchoolDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1931 · 19 km away, in Waterloo |
| Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Kitchener, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1897–1898 · 21 km away, in Mt. Hope Huron Park |
| Joseph Schneider HausNational Historic Site · 1816–1817 · 21 km away, in Victoria Park |
| The Walper HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1893 · 21 km away, in City Commercial Core |
| Federal BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1937–1939 · 22 km away, in City Commercial Core |
| Waterloo County GaolDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1853 · 22 km away, in Central Frederick |
| WoodsideNational Historic Site · 1853–1854 · 22 km away, in Bridgeport East |
| West Montrose Covered BridgeDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 22 km away, in Elmira |
Within 25 km of Wellesley, the record goes back to 1816
The area here stretches to 25 km around Wellesley: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Oldest of all: Joseph Schneider Haus, Victoria Park, 1816. The bars count 11 dated places within 25 km. 4 are older than 1867.
29% of Wellesley’s homes are older than 1961, against a usual 18%
Few of Wellesley’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 15%, the norm 27%. Wellesley has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 22%, where most towns have 15%. New building in Wellesley runs at the usual pace: 4.9% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Wellesley compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 12,300 to 12,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Summerland and Yonge-Eglinton have more. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have none.
Wellesley and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellesley | 12,413 | 0 | 0 | — |
| New Hamburg | 22,890 | 1 | 1 | 1877 |
| Perth East | 13,423 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Waterloo | 142,450 | 4 | 0 | 1850 |
| Elmira | 31,382 | 1 | 0 | 1881 |
| Highland West | 12,476 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westmount | 5,048 | 0 | 0 | — |
Wellesley in brief
Before 1961: 29% of Wellesley’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. The rest is about typical: Wallace Sterling (1906) and Almon Rennie (1882) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- 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.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
Questions about Wellesley’s history
How many historic places does Wellesley have on the registers?
Inside Wellesley, none so far. At 14 km, Castle Kilbride in New Hamburg is the nearest, with the top designation.
How old are the homes in Wellesley?
The 2021 Census dates 29% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Wellesley be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 9 more listings in Wellesley 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).