Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Heritage within reach of Thunder Bay, Unorganized: 5 places, 50 km or closer
Thunder Bay, 25 km from Thunder Bay, Unorganized, has the nearest place of the highest rank. Add 5 just outside the town.
Within 50 km of Thunder Bay, Unorganized, 3 top designations
The radius of 50 km holds 5. Oldest of them is Thunder Bay Tourist Pagoda (1909), 24 km off. Closest of all is Finnish Labour Temple, in Thunder Bay, 24 km off.
The 5 nearest, within 50 km
| Finnish Labour TempleDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1910 · 24 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Cummins Pre-contact SiteNational Historic Site · 24 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Thunder Bay Tourist PagodaNational Historic Site · 1909–1910 · 24 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Union Station, Thunder Bay, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 29 km away, in Thunder Bay |
| Canadian Car & FoundryNational Historic Site · 1912–1913 · 30 km away, in Thunder Bay |
Just outside Thunder Bay, Unorganized: 5
| Pic River SiteNational Historic Site · 100 m outside the town |
| Shaganash Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 400 m outside the town |
| Light TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1 km outside the town |
| Lamb Island LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1.1 km outside the town |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, White River, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 3.6 km outside the town |
New homes stand out in Thunder Bay, Unorganized: 7.9% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
More than half of Thunder Bay, Unorganized’s housing predates 2001. Thunder Bay, Unorganized’s largest group of homes, 39%, went up from 1981 to 2000. Homes from before 1961 are 16% of Thunder Bay, Unorganized’s housing, about the typical 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Thunder Bay, Unorganized compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,800 to 6,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Hillsdale, Old Tuxedo, Parkhill and Rhineland have more. The typical town its size has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
Thunder Bay, Unorganized in brief
Its housing is young: only 16% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Jack Walker (1888) is its person of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Questions about Thunder Bay, Unorganized’s history
How many historic places does Thunder Bay, Unorganized have on the registers?
None inside Thunder Bay, Unorganized yet. The nearest is Finnish Labour Temple, 24 km away in Thunder Bay.
How old are the homes in Thunder Bay, Unorganized?
16% 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).