Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Grand Falls-Windsor’s surroundings: a historic place within 100 km
2 more places on provincial or local lists are counted from Wikidata without pages. The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 26%.
Within 100 km of Grand Falls-Windsor, one top designation
One place lies within 100 km. Nearest comes Boyd's Cove Beothuk, 93 km off, in Division No. 8, Subdivision L.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Boyd's Cove BeothukNational Historic Site · 1981 · 93 km away, in Division No. 8, Subdivision L |
Most of Grand Falls-Windsor’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 32%
19% of Grand Falls-Windsor’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. From 2016 on, Grand Falls-Windsor built only 3% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%. Over half of the homes in Grand Falls-Windsor were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Grand Falls-Windsor and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Falls-Windsor | 14,510 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bishop's Falls | 3,162 | 0 | 0 | — |
Grand Falls-Windsor in brief
Before 1961: 26% of Grand Falls-Windsor’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Grand Falls-Windsor’s history
How many historic places does Grand Falls-Windsor have on the registers?
None inside Grand Falls-Windsor yet. The nearest, Boyd's Cove Beothuk, carries the highest designation, 93 km away in Division No. 8, Subdivision L.
How old are the homes in Grand Falls-Windsor?
26% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Grand Falls-Windsor be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 2 more listings in Grand Falls-Windsor, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
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).