Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 2.0Beyond Bow Island’s limits, 12 historic places within 100 km
Heritage of the first rank begins 51 km from Bow Island, in Cypress County. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 6.7% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
Bow Island’s surroundings: 12 historic places within 100 km
Closest of all is Ralston School (R2), in Cypress County, 45 km off. By age, Suffield Tipi Rings leads, from 1430, at 77 km. They stand in 5 towns, Cypress County, Medicine Hat and Stirling among them.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Ralston School (R2)Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1950–1951 · 45 km away, in Cypress County |
| Central Laboratory (B-1)Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1955–1956 · 47 km away, in Cypress County |
| St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ChurchNational Historic Site · 1912–1915 · 54 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Medicine Hat, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1906–1907 · 54 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| Medicine Hat Clay IndustriesNational Historic Site · 1909–1947 · 55 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| Medalta PotteriesNational Historic Site · 1912–1914 · 56 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| Suffield Tipi RingsNational Historic Site · 1430–1431 · 77 km away, in Cypress County |
| Brooks AqueductNational Historic Site · 1912–1915 · 80 km away, in Newell County |
| Áísínai'piNational Historic Site · 89 km away, in Warner County No. 5 |
| Stirling Agricultural VillageNational Historic Site · 1890 · 91 km away, in Stirling |
| Michelsen FarmsteadProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 92 km away, in Stirling |
| British Block CairnNational Historic Site · 99 km away, in Cypress County |
Within 100 km of Bow Island, the oldest record dates from 1430
Out to 100 km from Bow Island, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
First by date comes Suffield Tipi Rings in Cypress County, from 1430. The bars count 10 dated places within 100 km. One predates Confederation.
24% of Bow Island’s homes are older than 1961, against a usual 18%
Half of the homes standing in Bow Island today were built before 1981. The busiest building years in Bow Island were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 34% of today’s homes. In Bow Island, 23% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Bow Island in brief
In Bow Island, 24% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 Bow Island’s history
How many historic places does Bow Island have on the registers?
None inside Bow Island yet. The nearest is Ralston School (R2), 45 km away in Cypress County.
How old are the homes in Bow Island?
24% 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).