Perth County
The festival city of Stratford, Stonetown, and the warm working towns of Ontario's farm heartland.
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The places that make Perth
Stratford
A railway town dreamed big and the world showed up: the Stratford Festival is billed as North America's largest classical repertory theatre, and the city around it matches the performance — swans on the Avon, Victorian streets of inns and gardens, and a food scene fed straight from Perth County farms. Culture, heritage, and small-city warmth, all in one place.
St. Marys
"Stonetown" — its Victorian limestone buildings came from the quarries that now give the town one of Canada's largest outdoor swimming pools. Add the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and a main street from another century, and St. Marys charms effortlessly.
Listowel
North Perth's welcoming hub — an agricultural heart, a famous St. Patrick's season anchored by Paddyfest, and new neighbourhoods greeting families who've headed west for room to grow.
Mitchell
A farm town on the Thames and the birthplace of hockey legend Howie Morenz — in Mitchell the arena, the fairgrounds, and the main street still set the weekly rhythm.
Milverton
Buggy country: Milverton's rolling Amish-Mennonite farmland and tidy main street offer some of the most peaceful country living anywhere in our service area.
Millbank
Mennonite farm country at its sweetest — Millbank is the kind of crossroads where the general store still matters, buggies share the road, and the famous local bakery is worth the drive all by itself.
Shakespeare
The village that shares its name with the Bard has long been Perth County's antiques stop — a crossroads of shops, tea rooms, and country charm on the road to Stratford's theatres.
Perth rewards people who love character — a Stratford century home near the theatres, a limestone beauty in Stonetown, a family place in Listowel with room to grow. It's the kind of county that turns visitors into neighbours.
Thinking about a move in Perth?
Start with a conversation, or with your home's value — both are free, and neither obligates you to anything.
Photo: Festival Theatre, Stratford — Chris Woodrich (CC BY-SA 4.0)
