Photo: Krisco75 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ayer's Cliff keeps its older homes: 46% from before 1961
The typical town has 18%: Ayer's Cliff has 2.6 times the share. The nearest heritage to Ayer's Cliff is Église Saint-Wilfrid de Kingscroft, 7.3 km off, one of 5 places within 10 km. Look 13 km away, to Magog, for the nearest place of the highest designation. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is February 4, 1909: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Near Ayer's Cliff, within 10 km: built places from 1817 on
Within 10 km of Ayer's Cliff but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
The oldest is Hôtel de ville de Cassville in Stanstead, from 1817. Dated places within 10 km: 5. 3 go back before 1867.
Ayer's Cliff’s area holds one top-tier place within 10 km
The mix: 4 municipal citations and a place classified by Québec. Between them, 3 towns share them, mainly Coaticook, Compton and Stanstead. Count to 10 km and there are 5.
The 5 nearest, within 10 km
| Église Saint-Wilfrid de KingscroftMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1910 · 7.3 km away, in Coaticook |
| Grange ronde Stanley-HolmesMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1907 · 8.4 km away, in Coaticook |
| Église Saint-JamesClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1827–1828 · 8.6 km away, in Compton |
| Ensemble institutionnel Saint-JamesCited heritage site (Québec) · 1827–1830 · 8.7 km away, in Compton |
| Hôtel de ville de CassvilleMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1817 · 8.9 km away, in Stanstead |
46% of Ayer's Cliff’s homes were built before 1961
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 4.4% of Ayer's Cliff’s, about the typical 4.1%. Few of Ayer's Cliff’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 11%, the norm 27%. Ayer's Cliff has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 19%, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Ayer's Cliff and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayer's Cliff | 1,284 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | 2,938 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stanstead | 1,171 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Magog | 30,764 | 3 | 1 | 1821 |
| Compton | 3,351 | 3 | 1 | 1839 |
| Waterville | 2,643 | 3 | 0 | 1825 |
| Stanstead | 2,994 | 15 | 2 | 1810 |
Ayer's Cliff in brief
In Ayer's Cliff, 46% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.
- 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.
- Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
- 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Ayer's Cliff’s history
How many historic places does Ayer's Cliff have on the registers?
None within Ayer's Cliff itself; the nearest is 7.3 km off: Église Saint-Wilfrid de Kingscroft, in Coaticook.
When did Ayer's Cliff become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Ayer's Cliff to February 4, 1909. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Ayer's Cliff?
Before 1961: 46% 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).