TopNational Historic Site · 1913–1914Cable BuildingWater StreetPhoto: Ayadm · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Cable Building · Photo: Ayadm · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Bay Roberts · Canada’s heritage registers
Bay Roberts’s 1 historic place is a top designation
Bay Roberts’s entry is Cable Building (1913), a national historic site. Relative to its size Bay Roberts has 1.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 83% of Canadian towns. Behind these stand 3 more local or provincial listings that only Wikidata records.
Historic places
1
1.6 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1913
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
19%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Bay Roberts’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
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.
Highest designations
One place in Bay Roberts with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
3 places of the highest rank within 25 km of Bay Roberts
Oldest of them is Hawthorne Cottage (1830), 7.9 km off. Kent Cottage in Division No. 1, Subdivision M is the nearest, 7.8 km away. Count to 25 km and there are 5.
The 5 nearest, within 25 km
| Kent CottageRegistered heritage structure · 7.8 km away, in Division No. 1, Subdivision M |
| Hawthorne CottageNational Historic Site · 1830–1831 · 7.9 km away, in Division No. 1, Subdivision M |
| Brigus Stone BarnRegistered heritage structure · 8 km away, in Division No. 1, Subdivision M |
| Harbour Grace Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1830–1831 · 13 km away, in Harbour Grace |
| Former Carbonear Railway Station (Newfoundland Railway)National Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 17 km away, in Carbonear |
Homes by age
The biggest share of Bay Roberts’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 29%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 25% of Bay Roberts’s, against 15% in the typical town. From 2016 to 2021 Bay Roberts added 5.4% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Like the typical town (18%), Bay Roberts has 19% of its homes from before 1961.
19%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
23%
1981–2000
25%
2001–15
5.4%
2016–21
Bay RobertsTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Bay Roberts has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,400 to 6,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Bay Roberts1
The typical town its size has 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Bay Roberts and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Roberts | 6,407 | 1 | 1 | 1913 |
| Spaniard's Bay | 2,664 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Upper Island Cove | 1,553 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Clarke's Beach | 1,555 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Harbour Grace | 2,872 | 1 | 1 | 1830 |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision M | 1,270 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Carbonear | 5,041 | 1 | 1 | 1917 |
In brief
Bay Roberts in brief
Bay Roberts has 19% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, with Cable Building first. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. The other figures are unremarkable: William H. Cave (1872) is its person of the past on the record; and its designation dates from 2008.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- 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.
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
Questions about Bay Roberts’s history
Which places in Bay Roberts have the highest designation?
Cable Building.
What is the oldest building in Bay Roberts?
Cable Building — its record dates it to 1913 (National Historic Site).
Why might a heritage building in Bay Roberts be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 3 more listings in Bay Roberts, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
How old are the homes in Bay Roberts?
Before 1961: 19% 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).