Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 2.5Barry's Bay keeps its older homes: 34% from before 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Barry's Bay has 2 times as much. The nearest heritage to Barry's Bay is Fort William, 61 km off, one of 5 places within 100 km. Look 70 km away, to Highlands East, for the nearest place of the highest designation. The earliest of 2 people born in Barry's Bay before 1914 is John Wesley Dafoe.
Barry's Bay’s surroundings: 5 historic places within 100 km
They stand in 4 towns, Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Petawawa and Highlands East among them. The first one out is Fort William, 61 km away in Petawawa. By designation: 3 places classified by Québec and 2 National Historic Sites.
The 5 nearest, within 100 km
| Fort WilliamClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1828 · 61 km away, in Petawawa |
| Wilberforce Red Cross OutpostNational Historic Site · 1914–1917 · 66 km away, in Highlands East |
| Mazinaw PictographsNational Historic Site · 74 km away, in North Frontenac |
| Félix-Gabriel-Marchand BridgeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1898 · 83 km away, in Mansfield-et-Pontefract |
| George Bryson HouseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1854 · 83 km away, in Mansfield-et-Pontefract |
34% of Barry's Bay’s homes were built before 1961
Few of Barry's Bay’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 11%, the norm 15%. New building in Barry's Bay runs at the usual pace: 4.7% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%. Over half of the homes in Barry's Bay 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.
How Barry's Bay compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,100 to 4,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Carleton-sur-Mer and West River have more. The typical town its size has 0. 14 of them have none.
Barry's Bay and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry's Bay | 4,151 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards | 2,505 | 0 | 0 | — |
Barry's Bay in brief
The 2021 Census dates 34% of Barry's Bay’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: John Wesley Dafoe (1866) and Thomas Patrick Murray (1880) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Barry's Bay’s history
How many historic places does Barry's Bay have on the registers?
Barry's Bay has none of its own; Fort William, in Petawawa, the closest at 61 km, holds the highest designation.
How old are the homes in Barry's Bay?
34% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).