Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.010 registered heritage sites stand within 50 km of Sechelt
Only 6.1% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. The closest top-tier heritage is in West Vancouver, 45 km from here. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is 1862: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Within 50 km of Sechelt, 6 top designations
Closest of all is Merry Island Lighthouse, in Welcome Beach, 11 km off. They are 6 National Historic Sites, 2 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage lighthouse. Bastion, 36 km off, is the oldest: 1855.
The 10 nearest, within 50 km
| Merry Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1966 · 11 km away, in Welcome Beach |
| Christian Science SocietyListed in a community heritage register · 1932 · 36 km away, in Nanaimo |
| BastionHeritage designation · 1855 · 36 km away, in Nanaimo |
| Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Station, Nanaimo, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1920–1921 · 37 km away, in Nanaimo |
| Point Atkinson LighthouseNational Historic Site · 1912–1913 · 39 km away, in West Vancouver |
| Binning ResidenceNational Historic Site · 1941–1942 · 44 km away, in West Vancouver |
| Britannia Mines ConcentratorNational Historic Site · 1922–1924 · 44 km away, in Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet |
| Lions Gate BridgeNational Historic Site · 1937–1939 · 49 km away, in West Vancouver |
| Stanley ParkNational Historic Site · 1888–1989 · 49 km away, in West End |
| St. RochNational Historic Site · 1928–1929 · 50 km away, in Kitsilano |
Around Sechelt, within 50 km, most dated places come from the wars and the Depression
Reaching 50 km out from Sechelt: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Dated places within 50 km: 10. One is older than 1867. Oldest of all: Bastion, Nanaimo, 1855.
Sechelt is still building: 8.7% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
More than half of Sechelt’s housing predates 2001. Sechelt’s largest group of homes, 37%, went up from 1981 to 2000. 27% of Sechelt’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Sechelt compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 11,500 to 11,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Selkirk, Bowness and Ramara. The typical town its size has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Sechelt and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sechelt | 11,558 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Welcome Beach | 3,130 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Roberts Creek | 3,779 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast | 4,279 | 0 | 0 | — |
Sechelt in brief
Its homes are mostly newer: 6.1% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Sechelt’s history
How many historic places does Sechelt have on the registers?
None inside Sechelt yet. The nearest is Merry Island Lighthouse, 11 km away in Welcome Beach.
When did Sechelt become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Sechelt is 1862, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Sechelt?
The 2021 Census dates 6.1% 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).