Photo: JohnHinks · CC BY-SA 3.0Stephenville keeps its older homes: 39% from before 1961
For Stephenville, that is 2.2 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Glynmill Inn, 65 km from Stephenville, heads a list of 2 historic places within 100 km.
2 designated places lie within 100 km of Stephenville
At 65 km, Glynmill Inn in Corner Brook is the closest. The mix: a provincial or municipal listing and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. They belong to 2 towns, chiefly Corner Brook and Division No. 4, Subdivision A.
The 2 nearest, within 100 km
| Glynmill InnRegistered heritage structure · 65 km away, in Corner Brook |
| Cape Anguille Light TowerRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1961 · 95 km away, in Division No. 4, Subdivision A |
New homes are rare in Stephenville: 2.8% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 16% of Stephenville’s, against 23% in the typical town. Only 11% of Stephenville’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Half of the homes standing in Stephenville today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Stephenville and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephenville | 6,840 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Kippens | 1,927 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stephenville Crossing | 1,731 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St. George's | 1,181 | 0 | 0 | — |
Stephenville in brief
In Stephenville, 39% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Stephenville’s history
How many historic places does Stephenville have on the registers?
Stephenville has none of its own yet. Glynmill Inn, in Corner Brook, is the nearest, 65 km away.
How old are the homes in Stephenville?
39% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).