Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Within 50 km of Morinville, 27 places are on the heritage registers
For the highest designations, the closest town to Morinville is Sturgeon County, 7.5 km off. Few homes are old by the census: 4.1% before 1961, against 18%. Wikidata’s date for the municipality is 1892; it may record a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
27 designated places lie within 50 km of Morinville
By age, Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton leads, from 1794, at 30 km. Closest of all is Alberta Aviation Museum, in Sherbrooke, 27 km off. They belong to 12 towns, chiefly Downtown, Strathcona and Queen Alexandra.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Alberta Aviation MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 1942 · 27 km away, in Sherbrooke |
| St. Josaphat CathedralMunicipal historic resource · 1946 · 29 km away, in McCauley |
| Notre Dame De Lourdes Roman Catholic ChurchProvincial historic resource · 1902 · 29 km away, in Sturgeon County |
| Robertson-Wesley United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1971 · 29 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
| Government HouseNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 29 km away, in Glenora |
| Magrath MansionProvincial historic resource · 30 km away, in Highlands |
| Fort Augustus and Fort EdmontonNational Historic Site · 1794–1796 · 30 km away, in Sturgeon County |
| McLeod BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 30 km away, in Downtown |
| First Presbyterian ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1912 · 30 km away, in Downtown |
| Grierson CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1912–1914 · 30 km away, in Boyle Street |
| Victoria ArmouryProvincial historic resource · 30 km away, in Downtown |
| Hotel MacdonaldMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 31 km away, in Downtown |
Most of what stands within 50 km of Morinville dates from the decades after Confederation
The area here stretches to 50 km around Morinville: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton, in Sturgeon County, is the oldest (1794). 16 dated places within 50 km make up the record. One is older than 1867.
7.3% of Morinville’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Morinville has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 38%, where most towns have 15%. Half of the homes standing in Morinville today were built before 2001. 31% of Morinville’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Morinville compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,700 to 10,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Eastern Passage, Contrecoeur and Alexandria have more. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Morinville and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morinville | 10,763 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sturgeon County | 21,144 | 2 | 1 | 1794 |
| Bon Accord | 1,457 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Legal | 1,253 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St. Albert | 74,621 | 0 | 0 | — |
Morinville in brief
Its housing is young: only 4.1% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. For the rest, Lionel Tellier (1905) is its person of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
Questions about Morinville’s history
How many historic places does Morinville have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Morinville; Alberta Aviation Museum, in Sherbrooke, is 27 km away.
When did Morinville become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Morinville is 1892, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Morinville?
4.1% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Morinville be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 2 further listings in Morinville show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).