Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Cochrane, on the municipal record since 1908
For the highest designations, the closest town to Cochrane is Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, 47 km off. More of its homes are old than in most towns: 31% before 1961, against 18%.
New homes are rare in Cochrane: 2.4% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Cochrane built little from 2001 to 2015: 9.7% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 32% of Cochrane’s homes. Count back from today and half of Cochrane’s homes are older than 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 Cochrane compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,900 to 6,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Lowertown West and Lac-Mégantic. The typical town its size has 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Cochrane in brief
Of the homes standing in Cochrane, 31% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. Beyond that, John Carrère (1911) is its person 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
Questions about Cochrane’s history
When did Cochrane become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Cochrane is 1908, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Cochrane?
31% 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).