FedHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914Former Canadian National Railway Station, Fort Frances, Ontario140, 4th St. W. (west of Central Ave.)Public domain · Commons file
Photo: Percy Russell Doherty · Public domain2historic places on the registers
History of Fort Frances · Canada’s heritage registers
Fort Frances keeps its older homes: 45% from before 1961
Fort Frances has 2.6 times what the typical town has (18%). The registers put 2 historic places inside its boundary. Designations here include a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. Its oldest building on the record is Former Canadian National Railway Station, Fort Frances, Ontario, from 1913.
Historic places
2
2.6 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
2
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1913
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
45%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Fort Frances’s landmarks
Among Fort Frances’s designated places, only “Former Canadian National Railway Station, Fort Frances, Ontario” has a photo here.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The map
Where Fort Frances’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 2, by tier
2 Other federal designations
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
Other federal designations
Federal heritage in Fort Frances: 2 more places
The first was designated in 1988, the latest in 1994. By designation: a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1929–1931Federal Building301 Scott Street
Just outside
Just outside Fort Frances
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
Just outside Fort Frances: 1
| Fort St. PierreNational Historic Site · 100 m outside the town |
Homes by age
Little new building in Fort Frances: 1.9% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Over half of the homes in Fort Frances were already standing by 1981. Few of Fort Frances’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 4.8%, the norm 15%. 30% of Fort Frances’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
45%
Before 1961
30%
1961–80
19%
1981–2000
4.8%
2001–15
1.9%
2016–21
Fort FrancesTypical 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
Fort Frances has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,600 to 7,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Fort Frances2
Ahead of it: University. The typical town its size has 0. For 9, the registers list nothing.
In brief
Fort Frances in brief
The pre-1961 share of Fort Frances’s homes is 45%, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 2 historic places. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. Beyond that, the designations ran from 1988 to 1994.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- 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 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.
Questions about Fort Frances’s history
How old are the homes in Fort Frances?
Before 1961: 45% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Fort Frances have on the registers?
2 historic places inside Fort Frances, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Fort Frances?
Former Canadian National Railway Station, Fort Frances, Ontario, a Heritage Railway Station, begun in 1913.
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).