LocalNational historic site of CanadaThe Atlas Coal Mine National Historic SitePhoto: Mascdman · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Commons file
The Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site · Photo: Mascdman · CC BY-SA 2.51historic place on the registers
History of Drumheller · Canada’s heritage registers
Canada’s registers list 1 historic place in Drumheller
Wikidata gives 1912 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged. For every 10,000 residents Drumheller has 1.2, ahead of 81% of Canadian towns. Local registers add one more place, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds its number and little else.
Historic places
1
1.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Homes built before 1961
28%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Drumheller’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
One more place Drumheller or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The closest heritage to Drumheller is “Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Hanna, Alberta”, 58 km off
The oldest, Blackfoot Crossing, dates from 1877, 73 km away. All told, 5 places are within 100 km. For the highest designations, the nearest of 3 is Blackfoot Crossing, 73 km away.
The 5 nearest, within 100 km
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Hanna, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914 · 58 km away, in Hanna |
| Blackfoot CrossingNational Historic Site · 1877 · 73 km away, in Siksika 146 |
| Treaty Nº 7 Signing SiteNational Historic Site · 1877 · 75 km away, in Siksika 146 |
| Earthlodge VillageNational Historic Site · 75 km away, in Siksika 146 |
| Majorville Cairn and Medicine WheelProvincial historic resource · 99 km away, in Vulcan County |
Homes by age
New homes are rare in Drumheller: 1.7% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 35% of Drumheller’s homes. Homes from before 1961 make up 28% of Drumheller’s housing; the typical town has 18%. Over half of the homes in Drumheller were already standing by 1981.
28%
Before 1961
35%
1961–80
23%
1981–2000
13%
2001–15
1.7%
2016–21
DrumhellerTypical 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
Drumheller has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,400 to 8,500 residents, by places on the registers.
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Ahead of it: Goderich. The middle one has 0. 11 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
Drumheller in brief
Counted by age, 28% of Drumheller’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- 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.
- 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.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- 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.
Questions about Drumheller’s history
How many historic places does Drumheller have on the registers?
1 historic place in Drumheller, from Canada’s heritage registers.
How old are the homes in Drumheller?
Before 1961: 28% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Drumheller be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Drumheller, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets no page.
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).