Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Kapuskasing keeps its older homes: 43% from before 1961
Kapuskasing has 2.5 times what the typical town has (18%). Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, 75 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank. Wikidata dates the municipality to 1911, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
Kapuskasing added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.5%, where most towns have 4.1%
42% of Kapuskasing’s homes date from 1961 to 1980, well above the typical 27%. Kapuskasing built little from 2001 to 2015: 1.7% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Only 12% of Kapuskasing’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Kapuskasing compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,700 to 8,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Saint-Jean-Baptiste has more. The middle one has 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.
Kapuskasing and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapuskasing | 8,825 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Moonbeam | 1,262 | 0 | 0 | — |
Kapuskasing in brief
Housing in Kapuskasing includes 43% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
Questions about Kapuskasing’s history
When did Kapuskasing become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Kapuskasing is 1911, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Kapuskasing?
43% 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).