Heritage Railway Station · 1955–1956Canadian National Railways Station, Kitimat, British Columbia
Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Kitimat · Canada’s heritage registers
39% of Kitimat’s homes were built before 1961
Kitimat has 2.2 times what the typical town has (18%). The registers put 1 historic place inside its boundary. Relative to its size the figure is 1 per 10,000 residents, more than in 79% of Canadian towns. Canadian National Railways Station, Kitimat, British Columbia, from 1955, is the town’s heritage railway station.
Historic places
1
1 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1955
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
39%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Kitimat’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal 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. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
Other federal designations
Federal heritage in Kitimat: one more place
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The highest designation, once, within 100 km of Kitimat
One place lies within 100 km. Kitselas Canyon in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine is the nearest, 62 km away.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Kitselas CanyonNational Historic Site · 1800 · 62 km away, in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine |
Homes by age
Little new building in Kitimat: 2.2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 39% of Kitimat’s homes. Few of Kitimat’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 3.2%, the norm 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 17% of Kitimat’s, against 23% in the typical town.
39%
Before 1961
39%
1961–80
17%
1981–2000
3.2%
2001–15
2.2%
2016–21
KitimatTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Kitimat has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,000 to 10,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Kitimat1
Their median is 0. 15 of them have none.
In brief
Kitimat in brief
Kitimat’s homes from before 1961 come to 39%, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its one place was designated in 2023.
How to read these numbers
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. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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 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.
Questions about Kitimat’s history
How old are the homes in Kitimat?
Before 1961: 39% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Kitimat have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Kitimat, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Kitimat?
Canadian National Railways Station, Kitimat, British Columbia, a Heritage Railway Station, begun in 1955.
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).