Glynmill Inn · Photo: David-17362 · CC BY-SA 4.0Corner Brook: 1 historic place on Canada’s heritage registers
For the municipality itself, Wikidata has 1956, which can be an incorporation or a merger rather than a founding. Measured against its size, Corner Brook’s 0.5 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 74% of Canadian towns. 4 further listings on provincial or municipal registers are known only through Wikidata, so they have no page of their own. Before 1961: 31% of the homes, where most towns have 18%.
Old pictures of Corner Brook
A single old picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap it to see it full screen.
1927Public 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.
Where Corner Brook’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
One more place Corner Brook or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
LocalLittle new building in Corner Brook: 2.5% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Over half of the homes in Corner Brook were already standing by 1981. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 35% of Corner Brook’s homes. Corner Brook built little from 2001 to 2015: 11% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Corner Brook and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corner Brook | 20,549 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Irishtown-Summerside | 1,296 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Massey Drive | 1,760 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Humber Arm South | 1,595 | 0 | 0 | — |
Corner Brook in brief
Counted by age, 31% of Corner Brook’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. For the rest, one historic place is about usual for its size (the median is 0); and one person of its past, Charles Ballram (1901).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Corner Brook’s history
How many historic places does Corner Brook have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Corner Brook, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
How old are the homes in Corner Brook?
31% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Corner Brook be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 4 further listings in Corner Brook show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).