Photo: KenWalker · CC BY-SA 4.0Heritage within reach of Fairwinds: 6 places, 50 km or closer
Its housing is mostly newer: 3.4% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Powell River, 67 km off.
One place of the highest rank within 50 km of Fairwinds
They stand in 4 towns, Nanaimo, Qualicum Beach and Welcome Beach among them. “Former Canadian Pacific Railway (VIA Rail) Station, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia” in Qualicum Beach is the nearest, 21 km away. By designation: 2 heritage railway stations, 2 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage lighthouse.
The 6 nearest, within 50 km
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway (VIA Rail) Station, Qualicum Beach, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1915 · 21 km away, in Qualicum Beach |
| Christian Science SocietyListed in a community heritage register · 1932 · 21 km away, in Nanaimo |
| Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Station, Nanaimo, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1920–1921 · 21 km away, in Nanaimo |
| BastionHeritage designation · 1855 · 22 km away, in Nanaimo |
| Merry Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1966 · 27 km away, in Welcome Beach |
| McLean MillNational Historic Site · 1925–1966 · 48 km away, in Electoral Area E, Alberni-Clayoquot |
Within 50 km of Fairwinds, the oldest record dates from 1855
The area here stretches to 50 km around Fairwinds: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
6 places within 50 km have a date. One is older than 1867. The earliest is Bastion in Nanaimo, begun in 1855.
Fairwinds’s building boom came from 1981 to 2000: 39% of its homes
More than half of Fairwinds’s housing predates 2001. Fairwinds has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 29%, where most towns have 15%. From 2016 on, Fairwinds built 5.2% of its homes; the typical town built 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.
Fairwinds and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairwinds | 7,125 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lantzville | 4,276 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Parksville | 15,371 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area G, Nanaimo | 8,412 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area C, Nanaimo | 3,733 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Nanaimo | 111,845 | 5 | 0 | 1855 |
Fairwinds in brief
Counted by age, only 3.4% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- 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. 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 Fairwinds’s history
How many historic places does Fairwinds have on the registers?
Not inside Fairwinds. The closest is Former Canadian Pacific Railway (VIA Rail) Station, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia in Qualicum Beach, 21 km away.
How old are the homes in Fairwinds?
3.4% predate 1961, where 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).