Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Canadian National Railway Station, Prince Rupert, British Columbia · Photo: Roger Puta · Public domainMore of Prince Rupert’s homes are old than in most towns: 36% before 1961, against 18%. Canadian National Railway Station, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, from 1921, is the town’s heritage railway station. For every 10,000 residents Prince Rupert has 0.8, ahead of 77% of Canadian towns. One more stands just outside, within 5 km of the town’s edge.
On one line by date: 3 old photographs of the town. A tap on any picture opens it with its credit.
1929–1930
1929–1930
1929–1930Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
As a municipality, Prince Rupert carries the date March 10, 1910 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. The name of Prince Rupert honours Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
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.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| North Pacific CanneryNational Historic Site · 5 km outside the town |
The busiest building years in Prince Rupert were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 39% of today’s homes. Few of Prince Rupert’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 2.1%, the norm 15%. Half of the homes standing in Prince Rupert today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 12,800 to 13,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Centre-Ville, Downtown and Yonge-Bay Corridor. The middle one has 0. 10 of them have none.
Prince Rupert’s homes from before 1961 come to 36%, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Just 3 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. The rest is about typical: its one place was designated in 1992.
36% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
1 historic place inside Prince Rupert, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
Canadian National Railway Station, Prince Rupert, British Columbia — its record dates it to 1921 (Heritage Railway Station).
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).
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