How it began
Wawa through its dates, from 1899
For the municipality of Wawa itself, Wikidata records 1899, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger. The name Township of Michipicoten lasted until 2007, when Wawa took another.
Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.00historic places on the registers
History of Wawa · Canada’s heritage registers
Wawa keeps its older homes: 40% from before 1961
Against 18% in the typical town, Wawa has 2.3 times the share. The nearest heritage to Wawa is Canadian Pacific Railway Station, White River, Ontario, 76 km off, alone within 100 km.
Historic places within 100 km
1
0 of the highest designation
Nearest historic place
76 km
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, White River, Ontario
Homes built before 1961
40%
typical town: 18%
Around the town
One place on Canada’s registers lies 100 km or less from Wawa
Nearest comes “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, White River, Ontario”, 76 km off, in Thunder Bay, Unorganized.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, White River, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1926–1928 · 76 km away, in Thunder Bay, Unorganized |
Homes by age
Wawa added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 0.8%, where most towns have 4.1%
The busiest building years in Wawa were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 47% of today’s homes. Only 1.7% of Wawa’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 11% of Wawa’s, against 23% in the typical town.
40%
Before 1961
47%
1961–80
11%
1981–2000
1.7%
2001–15
0.8%
2016–21
WawaTypical 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 Wawa compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,900 to 3,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Wawa0
Ahead of it: Saint-Marc-des-Carrières, Scott and Dégelis. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
In brief
Wawa in brief
Of the homes standing in Wawa, 40% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- 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.
- 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 federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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.
Questions about Wawa’s history
How many historic places does Wawa have on the registers?
None inside Wawa yet. The nearest is Canadian Pacific Railway Station, White River, Ontario, 76 km away in Thunder Bay, Unorganized.
How old are the homes in Wawa?
The 2021 Census dates 40% 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).