TopNational Historic SiteGitwangak Battle HillPhoto: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Gitwangak Battle Hill · Photo: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine · Canada’s heritage registers
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine: 1 historic place, with the highest designation
A further one sits a short way past the edge of town. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 4.7% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
Historic places
1
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Homes built before 1961
14%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s area holds one top-tier place within 100 km
The first one out is “Canadian National Railway Station, Smithers, British Columbia”, 62 km away in Smithers. 2 places lie within 100 km. Oldest of them is Kitselas Canyon (1800), 88 km off.
The 2 nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian National Railway Station, Smithers, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1919–1920 · 62 km away, in Smithers |
| Kitselas CanyonNational Historic Site · 1800 · 88 km away, in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine |
Just outside Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine: 1
| KitwankulNational Historic Site · 400 m outside the town |
Homes by age
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 42% of its homes
More than half of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s housing predates 1981. Homes from before 1961 are 14% of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s housing, about the typical 18%. Only 10% of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%.
14%
Before 1961
42%
1961–80
28%
1981–2000
10%
2001–15
4.7%
2016–21
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-StikineTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine in brief
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine has 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, among them Gitwangak Battle Hill. Most of its homes are post-1960: only 14% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, its designation dates from 1971.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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 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.
Questions about Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s history
Which places in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine have the highest designation?
It is Gitwangak Battle Hill.
How old are the homes in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine?
14% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).