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0historic places on the registers

History of Terrace · Canada’s heritage registers

4 heritage places lie within 100 km of Terrace

Homes from 2016 to 2021 make up 5.7% of the stock; the typical town has 4.1%. Its housing is mostly newer: 13% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%.

Historic places within 100 km

3 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

14 km

Kitselas Canyon

Homes built before 1961

13%

typical town: 18%

Through time

Terrace, long ago

A single old picture: one old photograph of the town. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.

The wars and betweenTerrace, British ColumbiaPublic domain

Public 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.

Around the town

Terrace’s surroundings: 4 historic places within 100 km

Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine, Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine and Smithers hold most of them, among 3 towns. Nearest comes Kitselas Canyon, 14 km off, in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine. Among them are 3 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station.

The 4 nearest, within 100 km

Kitselas CanyonNational Historic Site · 1800 · 14 km away, in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine

Gitwangak Battle HillNational Historic Site · 77 km away, in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine

KitwankulNational Historic Site · 90 km away, in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine

Canadian National Railway Station, Smithers, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1919–1920 · 96 km away, in Smithers

How it began

Terrace through its dates, from 1927

The municipality of Terrace was incorporated as a village in 1927. As a municipality, Terrace carries the date December 29, 1927 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Terrace, British Columbia”, revision 1377123662 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

Homes by age

Terrace built the most from 1961 to 1980, 45% of today’s homes

Terrace built little from 2001 to 2015: 9.4% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Count back from today and half of Terrace’s homes are older than 1981. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 27% of Terrace’s, about the typical 23%.

13%

Before 1961

45%

1961–80

27%

1981–2000

9.4%

2001–15

5.7%

2016–21

TerraceTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Terrace and its neighbours

Town	People	Oldest
Terrace	13,648	—
Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine	4,153	—
Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine	3,189	—

In brief

Terrace in brief

Its housing is young: only 13% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no historic place.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

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 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.
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. 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 grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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 Terrace’s history

How many historic places does Terrace have on the registers?

Terrace has none of its own; Kitselas Canyon, in Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine, the closest at 14 km, holds the highest designation.

How old are the homes in Terrace?

Before 1961: 13% 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).