Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.06 heritage places lie within 50 km of Shuniah
The closest top-tier heritage to Shuniah is in Thunder Bay, 21 km away. The 2021 Census dates 4.6% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.
The heritage closest to Shuniah: Thunder Bay Tourist Pagoda, at 18 km
Count to 50 km and there are 6. By designation: 3 National Historic Sites, a provincial or municipal listing and a heritage railway station. They are spread over 2 towns, including Thunder Bay and Thunder Bay, Unorganized.
The 6 nearest, within 50 km
| Thunder Bay Tourist PagodaNational Historic Site · 1909–1910 · 18 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Finnish Labour TempleDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1910 · 19 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Union Station, Thunder Bay, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 23 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Canadian Car & FoundryNational Historic Site · 1912–1913 · 28 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Cummins Pre-contact SiteNational Historic Site · 28 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Shaganash Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1922–1923 · 40 km away, in Thunder Bay, Unorganized |
Around Shuniah, within 50 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
No place near Shuniah is close: these lie up to 50 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
Thunder Bay Tourist Pagoda, in Thunder Bay, is the oldest (1909). The chart rests on 5 dated places within 50 km.
Most of Shuniah’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 32%
Shuniah has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 19%, where most towns have 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Shuniah has 21% of its homes from before 1961. Over half of the homes in Shuniah were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Shuniah compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,400 to 3,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Wellington. The typical town its size has 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.
Shuniah in brief
Of the homes standing in Shuniah, 21% went up 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 federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
Questions about Shuniah’s history
How many historic places does Shuniah have on the registers?
None in Shuniah itself. The closest is Thunder Bay Tourist Pagoda in Thunder Bay, 18 km away, a place of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Shuniah?
The 2021 Census dates 21% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).