Photo: The Interior · CC BY-SA 4.02 heritage places lie within 100 km of Blind Bay
Only 6.8% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. The closest top-tier heritage is in Kamloops, 71 km from here.
70 km from Blind Bay: Kamloops Memorial Arena, the nearest on the registers
The record reaches back to 1926 with “Canadian National Railway Station, Kamloops, British Columbia”, 70 km away. All told, 2 places are within 100 km. Among them are a provincial or municipal listing and a heritage railway station.
The 2 nearest, within 100 km
| Kamloops Memorial ArenaListed in a community heritage register · 70 km away, in Kamloops |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Kamloops, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1926–1928 · 70 km away, in Kamloops |
A growing town: 7.6% of Blind Bay’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Blind Bay’s largest group of homes, 37%, went up from 1981 to 2000. 27% of Blind Bay’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Count back from today and half of Blind Bay’s homes are older than 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Blind Bay compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 9,900 to 10,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Hatchet Lake and Kitimat have more. Their median is 0. For 14, the registers list nothing.
Blind Bay and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blind Bay | 9,984 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap | 3,475 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Salmon Arm | 20,891 | 0 | 0 | — |
Blind Bay in brief
The census dates only 6.8% of its homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
Questions about Blind Bay’s history
How many historic places does Blind Bay have on the registers?
None inside Blind Bay yet. The nearest is Kamloops Memorial Arena, 70 km away in Kamloops.
How old are the homes in Blind Bay?
The 2021 Census dates 6.8% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).