Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton · Photo: Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose · CC BY-SA 2.0On the registers Sturgeon County counts 2 historic places, one at the top. Per resident that is more than in 79% of Canadian towns: 0.9 for every 10,000 people. Counted by designation, there are a provincial or municipal listing.
Photos show both of the places Sturgeon County’s registers name. Up first are Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton and Notre Dame De Lourdes Roman Catholic Church.
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.
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
c. 1849Public 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.
Sturgeon County is named after Sturgeon River, watercourse in Alberta, Canada. Wikidata holds 1955 as the start of the municipality of Sturgeon County, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.
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.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Within 25 km there are 11 in all. At 22 km, Alberta Aviation Museum in Sherbrooke is the closest. They are spread over 7 towns, including Downtown, Sherbrooke and Highlands.
| Alberta Aviation MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 1942 · 22 km away, in Sherbrooke |
| Magrath MansionProvincial historic resource · 23 km away, in Highlands |
| St. Josaphat CathedralMunicipal historic resource · 1946 · 23 km away, in McCauley |
| Robertson-Wesley United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1971 · 24 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
| Government HouseNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 24 km away, in Glenora |
| Grierson CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1912–1914 · 24 km away, in Boyle Street |
| McLeod BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 24 km away, in Downtown |
| First Presbyterian ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1912 · 25 km away, in Downtown |
| Hotel MacdonaldMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 25 km away, in Downtown |
| Victoria ArmouryProvincial historic resource · 25 km away, in Downtown |
| McKay Avenue SchoolMunicipal historic resource · 25 km away, in Downtown |
The busiest building years in Sturgeon County were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 29% of today’s homes. 28% of Sturgeon County’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 4.3% of Sturgeon County’s, about the typical 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 20,900 to 21,400 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 14 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturgeon County | 21,144 | 2 | 1 | 1794 |
| Morinville | 10,763 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bon Accord | 1,457 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Elsinore | 5,796 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St. Albert | 74,621 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Canossa | 3,246 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Rapperswill | 3,639 | 0 | 0 | — |
Sturgeon County has 2 historic places, one with the highest designation, among them Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none has more historic places. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 11% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: its designation dates from 1923.
Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton — its record dates it to 1794 (National Historic Site).
Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton.
Before 1961: 11% 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).
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