Photo: NordSpace · CC BY-SA 4.0An older town: 47% of St. Lawrence’s homes predate 1961
St. Lawrence has 2.7 times what the typical town has (18%). Within 100 km of St. Lawrence there is one designated place, Rocky Point Lighthouse, at 69 km.
The heritage closest to St. Lawrence: Rocky Point Lighthouse, at 69 km
Count to 100 km and there is one.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Rocky Point LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1881 · 69 km away, in Harbour Breton |
Little new building in St. Lawrence: 2.1% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Count back from today and half of St. Lawrence’s homes are older than 1981. St. Lawrence built little from 2001 to 2015: 5.2% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 11% of St. Lawrence’s, against 23% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
St. Lawrence in brief
Older stock first: 47% of homes in St. Lawrence were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about St. Lawrence’s history
How many historic places does St. Lawrence have on the registers?
St. Lawrence has none of its own yet. Rocky Point Lighthouse, in Harbour Breton, is the nearest, 69 km away.
How old are the homes in St. Lawrence?
47% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in St. Lawrence be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 6 more listings in St. Lawrence are known through Wikidata alone, so they are 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).