TopNational Historic Site · 1890Stirling Agricultural Village229 4 Ave.Photo: Hero122 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Stirling Agricultural Village · Photo: Hero122 · CC BY-SA 3.02historic places on the registers
History of Stirling · Canada’s heritage registers
Heritage in Stirling: 2 historic places, one of the highest rank
Among the places are a provincial or municipal listing. Its oldest building on the record is Stirling Agricultural Village, from 1890. Wikidata’s date for the municipality is 1899; it may record a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
Historic places
2
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1890
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
18%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Old and new: 2 photos and 2 old pictures of Stirling
In front: Stirling Agricultural Village and Michelsen Farmstead. The photos cover both places on Stirling’s registers.
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.
Through time
Stirling, 1902 to 1905
Here in time order: 2 old photographs of the town. Point at a dot for its year, or tap a picture to enlarge it.
1902
1905Public 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.
The map
Where Stirling’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 2, by tier
1 Highest designations1 Provincial and local listings
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Stirling with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Stirling: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
LocalProvincial historic resource · 1912Michelsen FarmsteadPhoto: Cocopie at en · Public domain · Commons file
Around the town
Within 50 km of Stirling, one top designation
Oldest of them is Fort Whoop-Up (1869), 31 km off. Raymond Community Centre in Raymond is the nearest, 11 km away. Within 50 km there are 3 in all.
The 3 nearest, within 50 km
| Raymond Community CentreProvincial historic resource · 11 km away, in Raymond |
| Raymond Buddhist ChurchProvincial historic resource · 11 km away, in Raymond |
| Fort Whoop-UpNational Historic Site · 1869–1870 · 31 km away, in Cardston County |
Homes by age
The biggest share of Stirling’s homes dates from 2001 to 2015: 40%
Few of Stirling’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 21%, the norm 27%. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 make up just 2.9% of Stirling’s, below the typical 4.1%. Like the typical town (18%), Stirling has 18% of its homes from before 1961.
18%
Before 1961
21%
1961–80
19%
1981–2000
40%
2001–15
2.9%
2016–21
StirlingTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
Stirling and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling | 1,350 | 2 | 1 | 1890 |
| Raymond | 4,594 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Warner County No. 5 | 4,533 | 1 | 1 | — |
In brief
Stirling in brief
Older stock first: 18% of homes in Stirling were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 2 historic places, one with the highest designation, including Stirling Agricultural Village. The rest is about typical: its designation dates from 1989.
How to read these numbers
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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
Questions about Stirling’s history
Which places in Stirling have the highest designation?
It is Stirling Agricultural Village.
What is the oldest building in Stirling?
Stirling Agricultural Village — its record dates it to 1890 (National Historic Site).
How old are the homes in Stirling?
Before 1961: 18% of its homes; 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).