Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Glenn Ford · CC BY-SA 3.0Building F-16, from 1953, is Petawawa’s recognized federal heritage building. Per resident Petawawa has more than 74% of Canadian towns: 0.5 for every 10,000 people. Within 5 km of the town lies one more that belongs to it.
On the open record, Petawawa as a municipality goes back to July 1, 1997, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Petawawa is named after Petawawa River, watercourse in Ontario, Canada.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
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.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The first one out is George Bryson House, 41 km away in Mansfield-et-Pontefract. Mansfield-et-Pontefract, McNab/Braeside and Arnprior hold most of them, among 3 towns. All told, 4 places are within 100 km.
| George Bryson HouseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1854 · 41 km away, in Mansfield-et-Pontefract |
| Félix-Gabriel-Marchand BridgeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1898 · 41 km away, in Mansfield-et-Pontefract |
| Gillies Grove and HouseNational Historic Site · 1937–1938 · 87 km away, in McNab/Braeside |
| D.A. Gillies BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 88 km away, in Arnprior |
| Fort WilliamClassified heritage site (Québec) · 600 m outside the town |
Before 1961: 17% of Petawawa’s homes, near the usual 18%. Petawawa’s largest group of homes, 30%, went up from 1961 to 1980. 21% of Petawawa’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 19,500 to 19,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Esquimalt, North End and Kirkland. The middle one has 0. 10 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petawawa | 19,606 | 1 | 0 | 1953 |
| Laurentian Valley | 9,714 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pembroke | 15,479 | 1 | 0 | 1914 |
| L'Isle-aux-Allumettes | 1,413 | 0 | 0 | — |
Petawawa has 1 historic place. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Its housing is young: only 17% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its one place was designated in 1995.
1 historic place in Petawawa, from Canada’s heritage registers.
Building F-16 (Recognized Federal Heritage Building): the first construction date on its record is 1953.
17% 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).