Stephansson House · Photo: Mirandian · CC BY-SA 4.0Canada’s registers list 2 historic places in Red Deer County
For every 10,000 residents Red Deer County has 0.9, ahead of 79% of Canadian towns. There are also 3 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages. Designations here include 2 provincial or municipal listings.
Red Deer County’s heritage in 2 photos, and 1 pictures of its past
Leading off: Stephansson House and Markerville Lutheran Church. Each of Red Deer County’s two designated places has 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.
Red Deer County in old pictures
The past in one picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Open it full screen with a tap.
1907Public 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.
Where Red Deer County’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
2 local listings in Red Deer County
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Start with Markerville Lutheran Church and Stephansson House. Each one opens its own page.
Local
LocalWithin 50 km of Red Deer County: 3 places on the registers
Among them are 2 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station. Oldest of them is Flatiron Building (1904), 33 km off. Lacombe and Red Deer hold most of them, among 2 towns.
The 3 nearest, within 50 km
| Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 11 km away, in Red Deer |
| Flatiron BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1904 · 33 km away, in Lacombe |
| Lacombe Blacksmith Shop MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 34 km away, in Lacombe |
A growing town: 7.1% of Red Deer County’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Before 1961: 15% of Red Deer County’s homes, near the usual 18%. Red Deer County’s largest group of homes, 33%, went up from 1981 to 2000. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 24% of Red Deer County’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Red Deer County has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 21,800 to 22,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: South End, Petite-Bourgogne and Rivière-des-Prairies. The typical town its size has 0. 11 of them have nothing on the registers.
Red Deer County and its neighbours
Red Deer County in brief
Red Deer County has 2 historic places. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 3 have more historic places. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 15% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its past has one life on the record, David A. Ure (1910).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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 federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- 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.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
Questions about Red Deer County’s history
How many historic places does Red Deer County have on the registers?
Inside Red Deer County: 2 historic places.
Why might a heritage building in Red Deer County be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 3 more listings in Red Deer County, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
How old are the homes in Red Deer County?
15% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).