Photo: Paul Jerry · CC BY 2.0Brooks and its setting: 10 historic places within 100 km
Only 8.4% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. The closest top-tier heritage is in Newell County, 4.9 km from here.
Near Brooks, within 100 km: 6 places of national rank
Among them are 6 National Historic Sites, 2 provincial or municipal listings and 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Between them, 5 towns share them, mainly Cypress County, Siksika 146 and Newell County. At 4.9 km, Brooks Aqueduct in Newell County is the closest.
The 10 nearest, within 100 km
| Brooks AqueductNational Historic Site · 1912–1915 · 4.9 km away, in Newell County |
| Majorville Cairn and Medicine WheelProvincial historic resource · 37 km away, in Vulcan County |
| Central Laboratory (B-1)Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1955–1956 · 60 km away, in Cypress County |
| Ralston School (R2)Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1950–1951 · 63 km away, in Cypress County |
| Earthlodge VillageNational Historic Site · 72 km away, in Siksika 146 |
| Treaty Nº 7 Signing SiteNational Historic Site · 1877 · 76 km away, in Siksika 146 |
| Blackfoot CrossingNational Historic Site · 1877 · 76 km away, in Siksika 146 |
| British Block CairnNational Historic Site · 92 km away, in Cypress County |
| Suffield Tipi RingsNational Historic Site · 1430–1431 · 92 km away, in Cypress County |
| The Atlas Coal Mine National Historic SiteNational historic site of Canada · 94 km away, in Drumheller |
Within 100 km of Brooks, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Reaching 100 km out from Brooks: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Suffield Tipi Rings, in Cypress County, goes back furthest, to 1430. Dated places within 100 km: 6. One predates Confederation.
Only 2% of Brooks’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
21% of Brooks’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Brooks’s largest group of homes, 39%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 30% of Brooks’s, against 23% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Brooks and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks | 17,537 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Newell County | 7,846 | 1 | 1 | 1912 |
| Duchess | 1,045 | 0 | 0 | — |
Brooks in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 8.4% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a 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.
Questions about Brooks’s history
How many historic places does Brooks have on the registers?
None in Brooks itself. The closest is Brooks Aqueduct in Newell County, 4.9 km away, a place of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Brooks?
8.4% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Brooks be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Brooks shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).