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This is a list of historic places in Perth County, Ontario, containing heritage sites listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP), all of which are designated as historic places either locally, provincially, territorially, nationally, or by more than one level of government.
Franklin Centre) – a hamlet located at the junction of Route 202 and Route Named for Arctic explorer John Franklin . Saint-Antoine-Abbé ( 45°03′03″N 73°53′21″W / 45.05083°N 73.88917°W / 45.05083; -73.88917 ( Saint-Antoine-Abbé, Franklin, QC ) ) – a village located along Quebec Route
The imposing, four-storey, red-brick cotton mill building features a flat-roofed central tower, and numerous multi-pane mullion windows. It was Canada's second largest cotton mill at the time. The mill opened in the spring of 1885, with full production being reached in November 1889. It now sits rehabilitated to serve as government offices. [74]
Perth County is a county and census division in the Canadian province of Ontario in Southwestern Ontario, 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Toronto. Its population centres are Listowel, Mitchell and Milverton. The City of Stratford and the Town of St. Marys are within the Perth census division, but are administered separately from Perth County ...
Rent regulation was first briefly introduced in Ontario under the National Housing Act 1944.After lobbying by business it was repealed in under a decade. The modern history of rent controls began in July 1975 when the Residential Premises Rent Review Act 1975 was enacted after the demand for rent controls became a major issue in the period leading to the 1975 provincial election. [2]
Canada has no longwave time signal transmitters. The American station WWVB is the only option for reliable time signals during geomagnetic storms in the Western Arctic, based on WWVB's published pattern maps. If WWVB is not available, those who need precision time transfer may be able to use GPS time transfer instead.
The Perth Citizens Band, still giving concerts on the bandstand behind Town Hall, is a tradition dating back over 150 years. The band is Canada's oldest active town band. The Perth Citizens Band played "The Maple Leaf Forever" as the Mammoth Cheese departed to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. The bandstand has been behind the Town Hall since ...
The Government of Canada specifies the ISO 8601 format for all-numeric dates (YYYY-MM-DD; for example, 2025-03-05). [2] It recommends writing the time using the 24-hour clock (23:55) for maximum clarity in both Canadian English and Canadian French, [3] but also allows the 12-hour clock (11:55 p.m.) in English. [4]