Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.0The heritage near Edson: one place in a 100 km radius
Woodlands County, 83 km from Edson, has the nearest place of the highest rank. 1.6% of its homes went up between 2016 and 2021; the typical town built 4.1%.
Whitecourt crater, 72 km from Edson, is the closest
The radius of 100 km holds one.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Whitecourt craterProvincial historic resource · 72 km away, in Woodlands County |
Edson built the most from 1961 to 1980, 36% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Edson’s homes are older than 2001. Only 13% of Edson’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Edson has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 21%, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Edson compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,600 to 8,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Carleton Heights-Courtland Park and Nicolet. Their median is 0. 14 of them have none.
Edson in brief
Before 1961: just 13% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Questions about Edson’s history
How many historic places does Edson have on the registers?
None inside Edson yet. The nearest is Whitecourt crater, 72 km away in Woodlands County.
How old are the homes in Edson?
13% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).