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Photo: Myke2020 · Public domainThe nearest town to Vegreville with a top designation is Smoky Lake County, 73 km away. Local registers add one more place, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds its number and little else.
The past in one picture: one old photograph of the town. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
1924Public 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.
At 34 km, Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of St. Mary in Two Hills County No. 21 is the closest. By designation: 25 provincial or municipal listings, 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 3 National Historic Sites. For the highest designations, the nearest of 4 is Ukrainian Pioneer Home, 55 km away.
| Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of St. MaryProvincial historic resource · 34 km away, in Two Hills County No. 21 |
| BarnRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1938–1939 · 53 km away, in Lamont County |
| Ukrainian Pioneer HomeClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1951–1952 · 55 km away, in Strathcona County |
| PavilionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1933–1935 · 55 km away, in Strathcona County |
| Superintendent's ResidenceRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1908 · 58 km away, in Strathcona County |
| Victoria DistrictNational Historic Site · 1863–2001 · 61 km away, in Smoky Lake County |
| Fort de l'IsleProvincial historic resource · 65 km away, in St. Paul County No. 19 |
| Fort Augustus and Fort EdmontonNational Historic Site · 1794–1796 · 80 km away, in Sturgeon County |
| Notre Dame De Lourdes Roman Catholic ChurchProvincial historic resource · 1902 · 81 km away, in Sturgeon County |
| Magrath MansionProvincial historic resource · 92 km away, in Highlands |
| Grierson CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1912–1914 · 94 km away, in Boyle Street |
| Hotel MacdonaldMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 95 km away, in Downtown |
A single date stands for Vegreville as a municipality on Wikidata, April 4, 1906, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. Vegreville took its legal form as a town in 1906.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Vegreville”, revision 1381956848 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Reaching 100 km out from Vegreville: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Oldest of all: Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton, Sturgeon County, 1794. The chart rests on 21 dated places within 100 km. 2 are older than 1867.
Few of Vegreville’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 10%, the norm 15%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 45% of Vegreville’s homes. Like the typical town (18%), Vegreville has 21% of its homes from before 1961.
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 6,100 to 6,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Haultain, Saint-Césaire, Electoral Area A, Cariboo and Sioux Lookout. The typical town its size has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegreville | 6,153 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Minburn County No. 27 | 3,142 | 0 | 0 | — |
The pre-1961 share of Vegreville’s homes is 21%, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0. Beyond that, its past has one life on the record, James Edgar Walker (1911).
Vegreville has none of its own yet. Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of St. Mary, in Two Hills County No. 21, is the nearest, 34 km away.
21% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Vegreville is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).