Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainHeritage within reach of Welcome Beach: 4 places, 50 km or closer
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 7%. For the highest designations, the closest town is West Vancouver, 55 km off. One more stands just outside, within 5 km of the town’s edge.
Leave Welcome Beach and the first historic place is Christian Science Society, 37 km away
The radius of 50 km holds 4. Bastion, 37 km off, is the oldest: 1855. They are spread over 2 towns, including Nanaimo and Qualicum Beach.
The 4 nearest, within 50 km
| Christian Science SocietyListed in a community heritage register · 1932 · 37 km away, in Nanaimo |
| BastionHeritage designation · 1855 · 37 km away, in Nanaimo |
| Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Station, Nanaimo, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1920–1921 · 38 km away, in Nanaimo |
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway (VIA Rail) Station, Qualicum Beach, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1915 · 42 km away, in Qualicum Beach |
Just outside Welcome Beach: 1
| Merry Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 100 m outside the town |
Within 50 km of Welcome Beach, the dated places belong mostly to the wars and the Depression
The area here stretches to 50 km around Welcome Beach: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Within 50 km, 5 records give a date. One is older than 1867. The earliest is Bastion in Nanaimo, begun in 1855.
Welcome Beach’s building boom came from 1981 to 2000: 45% of its homes
22% of Welcome Beach’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 4.4% of Welcome Beach’s, about the typical 4.1%. More than half of Welcome Beach’s housing predates 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Welcome Beach compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,100 to 3,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Percé, Paspébiac, Trois-Pistoles and Clermont. The typical town its size has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
Welcome Beach and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome Beach | 3,130 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sechelt | 11,558 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast | 3,256 | 0 | 0 | — |
Welcome Beach in brief
Few of its homes are old, 7% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a 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.
Questions about Welcome Beach’s history
How many historic places does Welcome Beach have on the registers?
None inside Welcome Beach yet. The nearest is Christian Science Society, 37 km away in Nanaimo.
How old are the homes in Welcome Beach?
Before 1961: 7% 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).