TopNational Historic Site · 1889Lac Ste. Anne PilgrimagePhoto: Yiwahikanak · Public domain · Commons file
Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage · Photo: Yiwahikanak · Public domain1historic place on the registers
History of Lac Ste. Anne County · Canada’s heritage registers
Lac Ste. Anne County: 1 historic place, with the highest designation
Lac Ste. Anne County’s one place is Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage, a national historic site begun in 1889. Wikidata gives 1944 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged. For every 10,000 residents Lac Ste. Anne County has 0.8, ahead of 77% of Canadian towns. 2 more places on provincial or local lists are counted from Wikidata without pages.
Historic places
1
0.8 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1889
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
13%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Lac Ste. Anne County’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
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.
Highest designations
One place in Lac Ste. Anne County with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Lac Ste. Anne County’s surroundings: 32 historic places within 100 km
They are spread over 14 towns, including Downtown, Strathcona and Queen Alexandra. The record reaches back to 1794 with Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton, 80 km away. Government House in Glenora is the nearest, 64 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Government HouseNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 64 km away, in Glenora |
| Fort AssiniboineNational Historic Site · 1823–1824 · 64 km away, in Woodlands County |
| Alberta Aviation MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 1942 · 64 km away, in Sherbrooke |
| Robertson-Wesley United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1971 · 64 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
| Rutherford HouseProvincial historic resource · 1911 · 66 km away, in Garneau |
| High Level BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 66 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
| Victoria ArmouryProvincial historic resource · 66 km away, in Downtown |
| St. Josaphat CathedralMunicipal historic resource · 1946 · 66 km away, in McCauley |
| First Presbyterian ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1912 · 66 km away, in Downtown |
| McKay Avenue SchoolMunicipal historic resource · 67 km away, in Downtown |
| McLeod BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 67 km away, in Downtown |
| Hudson's Bay Company StablesMunicipal historic resource · 1914 · 67 km away, in Downtown |
Homes by age
Few of Lac Ste. Anne County’s homes are older than 1961: 13%, against 18%
Count back from today and half of Lac Ste. Anne County’s homes are older than 2001. 28% of Lac Ste. Anne County’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Lac Ste. Anne County’s largest group of homes, 29%, went up from 1981 to 2000.
13%
Before 1961
24%
1961–80
29%
1981–2000
28%
2001–15
6.2%
2016–21
Lac Ste. Anne CountyTypical 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
Lac Ste. Anne County has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 12,500 to 12,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Lac Ste. Anne County1
Only Carignan and Kings County, Subdivision B have more. The middle one has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
Lac Ste. Anne County in brief
Lac Ste. Anne County has 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, among them Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 13% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: people of its past such as Samuel Cunningham (1848) and Victoria Belcourt Callihoo (1861); and its designation dates from 2004.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- 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 tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
Questions about Lac Ste. Anne County’s history
Which places in Lac Ste. Anne County have the highest designation?
Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage.
What is the oldest building in Lac Ste. Anne County?
Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1889.
Why might a heritage building in Lac Ste. Anne County be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 2 more listings in Lac Ste. Anne County, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
How old are the homes in Lac Ste. Anne County?
The 2021 Census dates 13% 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).