Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Jasper Park Information Centre · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Designations here include 13 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Per resident Jasper outdoes 99% of Canadian towns, with 35 for every 10,000 people. The oldest dated place, Jasper Park Information Centre, goes back to 1913. Wikidata knows 10 more provincial or municipal listings here that get no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article.
To start: Jasper Park Information Centre, and Canadian National Railway (CNR) Station. 9 designated places in Jasper have a photo. Of Jasper’s most honoured places, 2 are photographed.
Canadian National Railway (CNR) Station
Jackman Residence
Superintendent's Garage
Rescue Building
Jackman Garage+4See all photosPhotos 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.
One picture from before 1950: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Open it full screen with a tap.
1926Public 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.
By 1926 the place had a station: Jasper railway station. The date Wikidata keeps for Jasper is 1813; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open.
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.
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
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.
Their dates run from 1913, with Jasper Park Information Centre, to 1927. Here that means 2 National Historic Sites and a Classified Federal Heritage Building. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Their dates run from 1920, with Superintendent's Residence, to 1951. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. They were designated between 1988 and 2000. Each one opens its own page.
Compared with the whole country’s registers (6%), theatres, museums and memorials are well represented: 25%. Two of the highest-ranked are Jasper Park Information Centre and Maligne Lake Chalet and Guest House. All told, 5 kinds of place appear.
Kinds read from each place’s name and the functions its register gives; a building keeps the kind it was built as.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
The places by the year of their designation.
The earliest designation is Fire Hall’s, from 1988. Only 1 has been added since 2011.
Half of the homes standing in Jasper today were built before 1981. Homes from before 1961 are 20% of Jasper’s housing, about the typical 18%. From 2016 to 2021 Jasper added 3.3% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%.
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 4,600 to 4,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
In Jasper, 20% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 16 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, Jasper Park Information Centre among them. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none has more historic places. Count them by kind and houses lead, 50%. Of the 16 with a date, 11 come from the wars and the Depression.
They are Jasper Park Information Centre, Maligne Lake Chalet and Guest House and Canadian National Railway (CNR) Station.
Jasper Park Information Centre — its record dates it to 1913 (National Historic Site).
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 10 more listings in Jasper, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
The 2021 Census dates 20% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).
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