National Historic SiteArvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk
Photo: Ansgar Walk · CC BY-SA 2.51historic place on the registers
History of Arviat · Canada’s heritage registers
One place in Arviat, at the top of the registers
Its housing is mostly newer: 1.6% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Relative to its size Arviat has 3 per 10,000 residents, more than 90% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
3 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Homes built before 1961
1.6%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Arviat’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Arviat with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Homes by age
Arviat is still building: 6.3% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Over half of the homes in Arviat were already standing by 2001. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 43% of Arviat’s, against 23% in the typical town. 27% of Arviat’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%.
1.6%
Before 1961
21%
1961–80
43%
1981–2000
27%
2001–15
6.3%
2016–21
ArviatTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Arviat has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,300 to 3,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Arviat1
Only Saint-Jean-Port-Joli and Saint-Jean-Baptiste have more. The typical town its size has 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
Arviat in brief
All told, Arviat has 1 historic place, one with the highest designation; Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk heads the list. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Its homes are mostly newer: 1.6% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its designation dates from 1995.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- 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 tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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 Arviat’s history
How old are the homes in Arviat?
Before 1961: 1.6% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Arviat have the highest designation?
Just one: Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk.
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).