Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Beyond Fall River’s limits, 88 historic places within 25 km
Homes from before 1961 are 6.3% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. For the highest designations, the closest town is Bedford, 12 km off.
40 places of the highest rank within 25 km of Fall River
Nearest comes Fultz House, 7.9 km off, in Lower Sackville. All told, 88 places are within 25 km. The oldest, D'Anville's Encampment, dates from 1746, 16 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Fultz HouseMunicipally Registered Property · 1865 · 7.9 km away, in Lower Sackville |
| Scott Manor HouseProvincially Registered Property · 10 km away, in Bedford |
| Bedford PetroglyphsNational Historic Site · 10 km away, in Bedford |
| Van Steenburgh and Polaris Buildings at The Bedford Institute of OceanographyRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1962–1963 · 15 km away, in Austinville |
| AfricvilleNational Historic Site · 1830 · 16 km away, in Windsor Park |
| D'Anville's EncampmentNational Historic Site · 1746 · 16 km away, in Clayton Park West |
| Building No. 4Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1916–1917 · 16 km away, in Austinville |
| Greenvale SchoolMunicipally Registered Property · 1915 · 17 km away, in Austinville |
| Quaker Whaler HouseMunicipally Registered Property · 1786 · 17 km away, in Austinville |
| Hydrostone DistrictNational Historic Site · 1917 · 17 km away, in North End |
| Wellington HouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1852–1861 · 17 km away, in North End |
| Carall Building S-17Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1941–1945 · 17 km away, in North End |
Around Fall River, within 25 km, most dated places come from the years before Confederation
Reaching 25 km out from Fall River: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Dated places within 25 km: 85. 47 predate Confederation. D'Anville's Encampment, in Clayton Park West, is the oldest (1746).
Fall River built the most from 1981 to 2000, 33% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Fall River’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 29% of Fall River’s, against 15% in the typical town. From 2016 to 2021 Fall River added 4.8% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Fall River compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 9,200 to 9,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Boischatel, L'Épiphanie and Stony Mountain. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Fall River and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall River | 9,214 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beaver Bank | 9,157 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lower Sackville | 20,171 | 1 | 0 | 1865 |
| Middle Sackville | 14,898 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dutch Settlement | 6,234 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bedford | 28,848 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Hammonds Plains | 13,844 | 0 | 0 | — |
Fall River in brief
Its homes are mostly newer: 6.3% were built before 1961, 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 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.
- 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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Fall River’s history
How many historic places does Fall River have on the registers?
Fall River has none of its own yet. Fultz House, in Lower Sackville, is the nearest, 7.9 km away.
How old are the homes in Fall River?
The 2021 Census dates 6.3% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).