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History of Elliot Lake · Canada’s heritage registers

Elliot Lake was made a city in 1990

2 places on the heritage registers lie within 100 km of Elliot Lake, the nearest Sheguiandah, 76 km away. Of its homes, 31% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. Heritage of the first rank begins 71 km away, in Little Current.

Historic places within 100 km

1 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

76 km

Sheguiandah

Homes built before 1961

31%

typical town: 18%

How it began

From 1955: Elliot Lake’s first milestones

Elliot Lake was incorporated as a city in 1990. 1955 is the date of Elliot Lake’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Elliot Lake”, revision 1384100763 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

Around the town

Within 100 km of Elliot Lake, one top designation

Oldest of them is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Cartier, Ontario” (1910), 91 km off. At 76 km, Sheguiandah in Little Current is the closest. Count to 100 km and there are 2.

The 2 nearest, within 100 km

SheguiandahNational Historic Site · 76 km away, in Little Current

Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Cartier, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 91 km away, in Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part

Homes by age

Elliot Lake added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 0.2%, where most towns have 4.1%

More than half of Elliot Lake’s housing predates 1981. Only 2.5% of Elliot Lake’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 49% of Elliot Lake’s homes.

31%

Before 1961

49%

1961–80

18%

1981–2000

2.5%

2001–15

0.2%

2016–21

Elliot LakeTypical 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

How Elliot Lake compares with 16 towns its size

Towns of 12,200 to 12,400 residents, by places on the registers.

Elliot Lake0

Orleans Village - Chateauneuf0

River Park South0

Ahead of it: Summerland. The typical town its size has 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.

In brief

Elliot Lake in brief

Elliot Lake has 31% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

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.
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. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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. 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.

Questions about Elliot Lake’s history

How many historic places does Elliot Lake have on the registers?

Nothing inside Elliot Lake; Sheguiandah in Little Current, 76 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.

How old are the homes in Elliot Lake?

Before 1961: 31% of its homes; 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).