Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Heritage within reach of Swan Hills: 2 places, 100 km or closer
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 0%. Woodlands County, 68 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
The closest heritage to Swan Hills is Fort Assiniboine, 59 km off
The radius of 100 km holds 2. They are a National Historic Site and a provincial or municipal listing.
The 2 nearest, within 100 km
| Fort AssiniboineNational Historic Site · 1823–1824 · 59 km away, in Woodlands County |
| Whitecourt craterProvincial historic resource · 81 km away, in Woodlands County |
Nothing new from 2016 to 2021 in Swan Hills, against 4.1% elsewhere
Half of the homes standing in Swan Hills today were built before 1981. Swan Hills built little from 2001 to 2015: 3.1% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. 64% of Swan Hills’s homes date from 1961 to 1980, well above the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Swan Hills in brief
The census dates only 0% of its homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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 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.
Questions about Swan Hills’s history
How many historic places does Swan Hills have on the registers?
None inside Swan Hills yet. The nearest, Fort Assiniboine, carries the highest designation, 59 km away in Woodlands County.
How old are the homes in Swan Hills?
0% 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).