Photo: Dan Huntington from Anacortes, WA · CC BY-SA 2.0The heritage near Port Hardy: one place in a 100 km radius
Its housing is mostly newer: 6.4% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Records name 2 people born in Port Hardy before 1914; the first is George Hunt.
Pulteney Point Lighthouse, 26 km from Port Hardy, is the closest
The radius of 100 km holds one.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Pulteney Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1943 · 26 km away, in Port McNeill |
Port Hardy added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 0.8%, where most towns have 4.1%
65% of Port Hardy’s homes date from 1961 to 1980, well above the typical 27%. Port Hardy built little from 2001 to 2015: 3.1% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Over half of the homes in Port Hardy were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Port Hardy compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,200 to 4,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Carleton-sur-Mer, La Pocatière and Napierville have more. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Port Hardy in brief
Few of its homes are old, 6.4% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. The rest is about typical: George Hunt (1854) and William Henry Pierce (1856) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- 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.
Questions about Port Hardy’s history
How many historic places does Port Hardy have on the registers?
None inside Port Hardy yet. The nearest is Pulteney Point Lighthouse, 26 km away in Port McNeill.
How old are the homes in Port Hardy?
Before 1961: 6.4% of its homes; 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).