Photo: jasonwoodhead23 · CC BY 2.0One registered heritage site stands within 100 km of Fort St. John
Few homes are old by the census: 6.5% before 1961, against 18%. Heritage of the first rank begins 4.4 km away, in Electoral Area C, Peace River. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is 1947: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Within 100 km of Fort St. John: one place on the registers
At 7.4 km, Tse'K'wa in Electoral Area C, Peace River is the closest.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Tse'K'waNational Historic Site · 7.4 km away, in Electoral Area C, Peace River |
8.2% of Fort St. John’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Fort St. John’s largest group of homes, 35%, went up from 1961 to 1980. 29% of Fort St. John’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Count back from today and half of Fort St. John’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.
Fort St. John and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort St. John | 24,383 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area C, Peace River | 6,344 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Taylor | 1,415 | 1 | 1 | — |
Fort St. John in brief
Before 1961: just 6.5% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: it has no historic place, against 1 for the middle town its size.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- 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.
Questions about Fort St. John’s history
How many historic places does Fort St. John have on the registers?
None inside Fort St. John yet. The nearest, Tse'K'wa, carries the highest designation, 7.4 km away in Electoral Area C, Peace River.
When did Fort St. John become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Fort St. John is 1947, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Fort St. John?
The 2021 Census dates 6.5% 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).