National Historic SiteSheguiandah
Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Little Current · Canada’s heritage registers
Heritage in Little Current: 1 historic place of the highest rank
Only a few towns match Little Current per resident: 3.6 for every 10,000, ahead of 92% of Canadian towns. Older housing stands out: 32% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Wikidata dates the municipality to January 1, 1998, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
Historic places
1
3.6 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Homes built before 1961
32%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Little Current’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Little Current with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The age of the area
Most of what stands within 100 km of Little Current dates from the decades after Confederation
Reaching 100 km out from Little Current: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
British North America 1760–18661
After Confederation 1867–19133
Wars and Depression 1914–19450
Since 1946 1946 on1
Tower, in Northern Bruce Peninsula, goes back furthest, to 1855. 5 places within 100 km have a date. One is older than 1867.
Around the town
74 km from Little Current: Tower, the nearest on the registers
Within 100 km there are 5 in all. Among them are 2 heritage railway stations, a Classified Federal Heritage Building and a heritage lighthouse. They stand in 3 towns, Northern Bruce Peninsula, Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part and Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury among them.
The 5 nearest, within 100 km
| TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1855–1860 · 74 km away, in Northern Bruce Peninsula |
| Flowerpot Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1969 · 78 km away, in Northern Bruce Peninsula |
| Light TowerRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1885–1886 · 82 km away, in Northern Bruce Peninsula |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Cartier, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 86 km away, in Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part |
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway (VIA Rail) Station, Sudbury, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 92 km away, in Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury |
Homes by age
32% of Little Current’s homes were built before 1961
From 2016 to 2021 Little Current added 3.7% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Little Current’s homes are older than 1981. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 30% of Little Current’s, about the typical 27%.
32%
Before 1961
30%
1961–80
23%
1981–2000
12%
2001–15
3.7%
2016–21
Little CurrentTypical 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
Little Current has the 1st most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,800 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Little Current1
The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
Little Current in brief
In Little Current, 32% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Sheguiandah. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. The other figures are unremarkable: its one place was designated in 1954.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- 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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Little Current’s history
Which places in Little Current have the highest designation?
Just one: Sheguiandah.
How old are the homes in Little Current?
32% 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).