How it began
The dates behind Timmins, from 1912
The name Timmins comes from Henry Timmins, canadian mining pioneer. 1912 is the date of Timmins’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes.
Photo: WolfFang1990 · CC BY-SA 4.00historic places on the registers
History of Timmins · Canada’s heritage registers
Older housing stands out in Timmins: 36% predates 1961
Timmins has 2 times what the typical town has (18%). 1.5% of its homes went up between 2016 and 2021; the typical town built 4.1%.
Homes built before 1961
36%
typical town: 18%
Homes by age
36% of Timmins’s homes were built before 1961
Over half of the homes in Timmins were already standing by 1981. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 5.5% of Timmins’s, against 15% in the typical town. 36% of Timmins’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, more than the typical town’s 27%.
36%
Before 1961
36%
1961–80
21%
1981–2000
5.5%
2001–15
1.5%
2016–21
TimminsTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
How Timmins compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 43,200 to 48,100 residents, by places on the registers.
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10 of them are ahead. The middle one has 2. 6 of them have none.
In brief
Timmins in brief
Of the homes standing in Timmins, 36% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 2.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
Questions about Timmins’s history
How old are the homes in Timmins?
36% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).