Tilting · Photo: Adlwlyaenr64 · Public domainFogo Island’s oldest designated place, Tilting, dates from 1730
Older housing stands out in Fogo Island: 33% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%. The registers list 1 historic place inside the town, and it carries the highest designation. There are also 13 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages.
Where Fogo Island’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Fogo Island’s top designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
TopThe heritage closest to Fogo Island: Lighttower, at 27 km
The radius of 100 km holds 3. Lighthouse, 45 km off, is the oldest: 1883. Division No. 8, Subdivision H, Division No. 8, Subdivision L and Twillingate hold most of them, among 3 towns.
The 3 nearest, within 100 km
| LighttowerRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1894–1895 · 27 km away, in Division No. 8, Subdivision H |
| Boyd's Cove BeothukNational Historic Site · 1981 · 43 km away, in Division No. 8, Subdivision L |
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1883–1884 · 45 km away, in Twillingate |
Fogo Island added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.6%, where most towns have 4.1%
Count back from today and half of Fogo Island’s homes are older than 1981. Fogo Island built little from 2001 to 2015: 6.2% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 33% of Fogo Island’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Fogo Island in brief
Before 1961: 33% of Fogo Island’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, Tilting among them. Everything else is close to the norm: H.R.V. Earle (1912) is its person of the past on the record; and its one place was designated in 2003.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Fogo Island’s history
What is the oldest building in Fogo Island?
Tilting (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1730.
How old are the homes in Fogo Island?
The 2021 Census dates 33% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Which places in Fogo Island have the highest designation?
Tilting.
Why might a heritage building in Fogo Island be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 13 further listings in Fogo Island 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).