Photo: Kyla Curtis · Public domainWithin 100 km of Botwood, 3 places are on the heritage registers
Local registers add one more place, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds its number and little else. Building from 2016 to 2021 gave it 2% of its homes, where most towns have 4.1%.
The old face of Botwood
From before 1950 comes one old photograph of the town. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
1900Public 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.
Within 100 km of Botwood, one top designation
Among them are 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and a National Historic Site. The nearest is Boyd's Cove Beothuk, 63 km away in Division No. 8, Subdivision L. All told, 3 places are within 100 km.
The 3 nearest, within 100 km
| Boyd's Cove BeothukNational Historic Site · 1981 · 63 km away, in Division No. 8, Subdivision L |
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1883–1884 · 73 km away, in Twillingate |
| LighttowerRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1894–1895 · 84 km away, in Division No. 8, Subdivision H |
A town of older homes: 24% of Botwood’s were built before 1961 (18% is typical)
Count back from today and half of Botwood’s homes are older than 1981. Botwood’s largest group of homes, 42%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Few of Botwood’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 11%, the norm 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 Botwood compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,900 to 2,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Harbour Grace and Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford have more. The middle one has 0. 14 of them have none.
Botwood and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botwood | 2,884 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bishop's Falls | 3,162 | 0 | 0 | — |
Botwood in brief
The 2021 Census dates 24% of Botwood’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: one person of its past, Carl Frederick Falkenberg (1897).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
Questions about Botwood’s history
How many historic places does Botwood have on the registers?
None in Botwood itself. The closest is Boyd's Cove Beothuk in Division No. 8, Subdivision L, 63 km away, a place of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Botwood?
Before 1961: 24% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Botwood be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Botwood is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).