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Canadian National Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario · Photo: Marty Bernard from U.S.A · Public domainThe record has 2 heritage railway stations. Its oldest building on the record is Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario, from 1903. For every 10,000 residents North Bay has 0.5, ahead of 74% of Canadian towns.
2 old photographs of the town, joined by the oldest view of one of its historic places, from oldest to latest. Tap any picture to see it full screen.
1905
c. 1910
1916Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The date Wikidata keeps for North Bay is 1891; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open. The legal status of North Bay grew step by step: a town in 1891 and a city in 1925.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “North Bay, Ontario”, revision 1382237453 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
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. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario” is the earliest, from 1903; the latest dates from 1916. Each one opens its own page.
North Bay built little from 2001 to 2015: 6.9% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. At 30%, North Bay’s share of pre-1961 homes is above the typical town’s 18%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 40% of North Bay’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Harvey Charters closes the list, born in 1912. The earliest is Billy Coutu, born in 1892. 16 Wikipedias cover Gordon Aitchison, the most of anyone here. Of them all, Pete Palangio lived longest: 96 years, until 2004.
Everyone born in North Bay → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Bay | 62,062 | 3 | 1 | 1903 |
| Callander | 4,021 | 0 | 0 | — |
| East Ferris | 5,835 | 0 | 0 | — |
In North Bay, 30% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, Power Cavern and Control Building among them. Of its people of the past, the best known are Gordon Aitchison (1909), Garnet Ault (1905) and Harvey Charters (1912). Everything else is close to the norm: 3 historic places is about usual for its size (the median is 2); and the list grew between 1994 and 2009.
Just one: Power Cavern and Control Building.
Before 1961: 30% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario, a Heritage Railway Station, begun in 1903.
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).
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