Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0History around Mayerthorpe: 3 designated places within 100 km
From Mayerthorpe, look 32 km away, to Woodlands County, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Wikidata knows one more provincial or municipal listing here that gets no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article.
The highest designation, 2 times, within 100 km of Mayerthorpe
All told, 3 places are within 100 km. Woodlands County and Lac Ste. Anne County hold most of them, among 2 towns. Among them are 2 National Historic Sites and a provincial or municipal listing.
The 3 nearest, within 100 km
| Whitecourt craterProvincial historic resource · 31 km away, in Woodlands County |
| Fort AssiniboineNational Historic Site · 1823–1824 · 48 km away, in Woodlands County |
| Lac Ste. Anne PilgrimageNational Historic Site · 1889 · 56 km away, in Lac Ste. Anne County |
Mayerthorpe added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2%, where most towns have 4.1%
Only 8.8% of Mayerthorpe’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Mayerthorpe’s largest group of homes, 48%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Homes from before 1961 are 14% of Mayerthorpe’s housing, below the typical 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Mayerthorpe in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 14% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Mayerthorpe’s history
How many historic places does Mayerthorpe have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Mayerthorpe; Whitecourt crater, in Woodlands County, is 31 km away.
How old are the homes in Mayerthorpe?
Before 1961: 14% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Mayerthorpe be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Mayerthorpe is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).