Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Ignace, one historic place within 100 km
Wikidata’s date for the municipality is 1879; it may record a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. Homes from before 1961 are 11% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town.
78 km from Ignace: “Canadian National Railway/VIA Rail Station, Sioux Lookout, Ontario”, the nearest on the registers
The registers hold one place within 100 km.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian National Railway/VIA Rail Station, Sioux Lookout, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1912 · 78 km away, in Sioux Lookout |
New homes are rare in Ignace: 1.8% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
69% of Ignace’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, more than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 0% of Ignace’s, against 15% in the typical town. Few of Ignace’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 17%, the norm 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Ignace in brief
Its housing is young: only 11% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Ignace’s history
How many historic places does Ignace have on the registers?
Inside Ignace, none so far; Canadian National Railway/VIA Rail Station, Sioux Lookout, Ontario, 78 km away in Sioux Lookout, is the closest.
When did Ignace become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Ignace is 1879, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Ignace?
11% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).