Photo: Madereugeneandrew · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Blackfalds, 5 historic places within 50 km
Its housing is mostly newer: 2.2% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Clearwater County, 68 km off.
5 places on Canada’s registers lie 50 km or less from Blackfalds
They are 4 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station. The first one out is Flatiron Building, 9.3 km away in Lacombe. Lacombe, Red Deer County and Red Deer hold most of them, among 3 towns.
The 5 nearest, within 50 km
| Flatiron BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1904 · 9.3 km away, in Lacombe |
| Lacombe Blacksmith Shop MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 9.4 km away, in Lacombe |
| Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 13 km away, in Red Deer |
| Stephansson HouseProvincial historic resource · 38 km away, in Red Deer County |
| Markerville Lutheran ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 39 km away, in Red Deer County |
15% of Blackfalds’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Only 7.8% of Blackfalds’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 61% of Blackfalds’s, against 15% in the typical town. Few of Blackfalds’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 14%, the norm 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Blackfalds compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 12,100 to 12,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Rideau Lakes and Summerland. The typical town its size has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Blackfalds and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackfalds | 12,258 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lacombe County | 11,072 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lacombe | 14,733 | 2 | 0 | 1904 |
| Red Deer | 115,409 | 1 | 0 | 1910 |
| Bentley | 1,153 | 0 | 0 | — |
Blackfalds in brief
Counted by age, only 2.2% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
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.
- 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. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Blackfalds’s history
How many historic places does Blackfalds have on the registers?
Inside Blackfalds, none so far; Flatiron Building, 9.3 km away in Lacombe, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Blackfalds?
2.2% 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).