Photo: Torbenbrinker|Torbenbrinker · CC BY-SA 3.0Beyond Deer Lake’s limits, one historic place within 100 km
For the municipality itself, Wikidata has 1864, which can be an incorporation or a merger rather than a founding. There is also one listing on a provincial or municipal register with no open description, so no page.
Within 100 km of Deer Lake: one place on the registers
The first one out is Glynmill Inn, 45 km away in Corner Brook.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Glynmill InnRegistered heritage structure · 45 km away, in Corner Brook |
Deer Lake’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 33% of its homes
Before 1961: 19% of Deer Lake’s homes, near the usual 18%. Deer Lake has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 26%, where most towns have 15%. Few of Deer Lake’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 18%, the norm 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Deer Lake compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,300 to 5,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce and South West Industrial have more. The middle one has 0. 14 of them have none.
Deer Lake in brief
The pre-1961 share of Deer Lake’s homes is 19%, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- 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 isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Deer Lake’s history
How many historic places does Deer Lake have on the registers?
Not inside Deer Lake. The closest is Glynmill Inn in Corner Brook, 45 km away.
When did Deer Lake become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Deer Lake is 1864, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Deer Lake?
19% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Deer Lake be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Deer Lake shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).