Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Fort Macleod · Photo: Xiao23 · CC BY-SA 3.0Among the places are a provincial or municipal listing. Few towns have as much for their size as Fort Macleod: 10 for every 10,000 residents, more than 98% of Canadian towns. The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 33%. Fort Macleod, begun in 1874, is the oldest by its record.
The first two: Fort Macleod and Territorial Court House. 3 designated places in Fort Macleod have a photo. 2 of the top-tier places in Fort Macleod have a photo.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap it to see it full screen.
1919Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
Fort Macleod was founded in 1874. 152 years have passed since. The name Macleod lasted until 1913, when Fort Macleod took another.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Fort Macleod”, revision 1377348893 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
They date from 1874 (Fort Macleod) to 1902. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The first was designated in 1923, the latest in 1981. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Over half of the homes in Fort Macleod were already standing by 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Fort Macleod 28% of its homes, near the usual 27%. 20% of Fort Macleod’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 3,900 to 4,000 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Counted by age, 33% of Fort Macleod’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 4 historic places, 3 with the highest designation. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. The rest is about typical: its past has lives on the record such as Archibald Hugh Mitchell (1903) and Howard Clark (1903); and the list grew between 1923 and 1981.
Fort Macleod, Territorial Court House and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
33% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Fort Macleod, a National Historic Site, begun in 1874.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 5 more listings in Fort Macleod, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get 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).
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