Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0In a 100 km circle around Stettler: 5 places on the registers
Wetaskiwin, 85 km from Stettler, has the nearest place of the highest rank. Building from 2016 to 2021 gave it 1.9% of its homes, where most towns have 4.1%.
The old face of Stettler
One old photograph of the town, made before 1950. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
c. 1900Public 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.
One place of national importance within 100 km of Stettler
Among them are 2 provincial or municipal listings, 2 heritage railway stations and a National Historic Site. The earliest date is Flatiron Building’s, 1904, 71 km away. Within 100 km there are 5 in all.
The 5 nearest, within 100 km
| Lacombe Blacksmith Shop MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 70 km away, in Lacombe |
| Flatiron BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1904 · 71 km away, in Lacombe |
| Former Calgary and Edmonton Railway Station, Red Deer, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 75 km away, in Red Deer |
| Wetaskiwin Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1907–1910 · 84 km away, in Wetaskiwin |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Hanna, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914 · 93 km away, in Hanna |
Stettler built the most from 1961 to 1980, 40% of today’s homes
Like the typical town (18%), Stettler has 20% of its homes from before 1961. Count back from today and half of Stettler’s homes are older than 1981. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 21% of Stettler’s, about the typical 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Stettler compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,000 to 6,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Cumberland County, Subdivision C, Crowsnest Pass, Saint-Henri, Amqui and Pleasant Hill. The middle one has 0. 11 of them have none.
Stettler and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stettler | 6,035 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stettler County No. 6 | 5,966 | 0 | 0 | — |
Stettler in brief
The 2021 Census dates 20% of Stettler’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. Everything else is close to the norm: one person of its past, Allen Russell Patrick (1910).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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. 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 Stettler’s history
How many historic places does Stettler have on the registers?
None within Stettler itself; the nearest is 70 km off: Lacombe Blacksmith Shop Museum, in Lacombe.
How old are the homes in Stettler?
20% 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).