Photo: Julius177 · CC BY-SA 4.0Heritage within reach of Sturgeon Falls: 7 places, 100 km or closer
Heritage of the first rank begins 42 km from Sturgeon Falls, in North Bay. 3 people on record were born in Sturgeon Falls before 1914, Oswald Michaud the earliest. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is January 1, 1999: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Top-ranked heritage near Sturgeon Falls: 2 places within 100 km
They belong to 5 towns, chiefly North Bay, Témiscaming and Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury. The first one out is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario”, 41 km away in North Bay. Oldest of them is Lighthouse and Dwelling (1880), 87 km off.
The 7 nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1903–1904 · 41 km away, in North Bay |
| Canadian National Railway Station, North Bay, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1916–1917 · 41 km away, in North Bay |
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway (VIA Rail) Station, Sudbury, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 78 km away, in Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury |
| Témiscaming stationClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1927 · 79 km away, in Témiscaming |
| Poste de relais pour le flottage du bois d'OpémicanClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1883 · 79 km away, in Témiscaming |
| Lighthouse and DwellingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1880–1881 · 87 km away, in Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part |
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1888–1890 · 99 km away, in The Archipelago |
Around Sturgeon Falls, within 100 km, the dated heritage reaches back to 1880
Places as far as 100 km from Sturgeon Falls, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
First by date comes Lighthouse and Dwelling in Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part, from 1880. The chart rests on 7 dated places within 100 km.
A town of older homes: 28% of Sturgeon Falls’s were built before 1961 (18% is typical)
The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 32% of Sturgeon Falls’s homes. From 2016 on, Sturgeon Falls built 3.5% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. Over half of the homes in Sturgeon Falls 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.
3 people born in Sturgeon Falls before 1914
The first on the line is Oswald Michaud (1891). At 77, Osias Godin outlived the rest, dying in 1988. By Wikipedia’s reach, Leo Bourgeault leads, with 5 articles. Osias Godin closes the list, born in 1911.
Everyone born in Sturgeon Falls → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Sturgeon Falls in brief
Housing in Sturgeon Falls includes 28% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The town’s people of the past are Leo Bourgeault (1903), Osias Godin (1911) and Oswald Michaud (1891). For the rest, like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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 Sturgeon Falls’s history
How many historic places does Sturgeon Falls have on the registers?
Sturgeon Falls has none of its own yet. Canadian Pacific Railway Station, North Bay, Ontario, in North Bay, is the nearest, 41 km away.
When did Sturgeon Falls become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Sturgeon Falls is January 1, 1999, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Sturgeon Falls?
28% 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).