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Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, Alberta · Photo: Il lupa · CC BY-SA 4.0In Red Deer that place is Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, Alberta, a heritage railway station, from 1910. Measured against its size, Red Deer’s 0.1 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 71% of Canadian towns. Its housing is mostly newer: 7.4% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. 8 more places on provincial or local lists are counted from Wikidata without pages.
The name Red Deer comes from Red Deer River, river in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. As a municipality, Red Deer carries the date 1882 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
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.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Their towns number 2: Lacombe and Red Deer County first. Count to 50 km and there are 4.
| Flatiron BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1904 · 22 km away, in Lacombe |
| Lacombe Blacksmith Shop MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 22 km away, in Lacombe |
| Markerville Lutheran ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 30 km away, in Red Deer County |
| Stephansson HouseProvincial historic resource · 30 km away, in Red Deer County |
From 2016 to 2021 Red Deer added 4.4% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Red Deer’s homes are older than 2001. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Red Deer 27% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Deer | 115,409 | 1 | 0 | 1910 |
| Red Deer County | 22,076 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Blackfalds | 12,258 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Penhold | 3,812 | 0 | 0 | — |
Red Deer has 1 historic place. Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 7.4%, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: one historic place is about usual for its size (the median is 4); people of its past such as Annora Brown (1899) and Thomas Speakman Barnett (1909); and its designation dates from 1990.
1 historic place inside Red Deer, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, Alberta (Heritage Railway Station): the first construction date on its record is 1910.
7.4% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 8 more listings in Red Deer, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
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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