Provincial historic resourcePaint Creek House
Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Vermilion River County · Canada’s heritage registers
Vermilion River County has 1 historic place on the registers
The municipality’s date on Wikidata is 1944: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which. For every 10,000 residents Vermilion River County has 1.2, ahead of 81% of Canadian towns. There is also one listing on a provincial or municipal register with no open description, so no page.
Historic places
1
1.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Homes built before 1961
17%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Vermilion River County’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
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.
Provincial and local listings
One local listing in Vermilion River County
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
3 places of national importance within 100 km of Vermilion River County
They are 3 National Historic Sites and 3 provincial or municipal listings. The nearest is Fort Pitt, 55 km away in Frenchman Butte No. 501. Frenchman Butte No. 501, St. Paul County No. 19 and Bonnyville No. 87 hold most of them, among 5 towns.
The 6 nearest, within 100 km
| Fort PittNational Historic Site · 1829–1831 · 55 km away, in Frenchman Butte No. 501 |
| Fort de l'IsleProvincial historic resource · 55 km away, in St. Paul County No. 19 |
| Frog LakeNational Historic Site · 1885 · 60 km away, in Bonnyville No. 87 |
| Wainwright HotelProvincial historic resource · 67 km away, in Wainwright |
| Frenchman ButteNational Historic Site · 1885 · 70 km away, in Frenchman Butte No. 501 |
| Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of St. MaryProvincial historic resource · 94 km away, in Two Hills County No. 21 |
Homes by age
Vermilion River County’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 29% of its homes
Like the typical town (18%), Vermilion River County has 17% of its homes from before 1961. Vermilion River County has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 26%, where most towns have 15%. From 2016 on, Vermilion River County built 4.3% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%.
17%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
25%
1981–2000
26%
2001–15
4.3%
2016–21
Vermilion River CountyTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Vermilion River County has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,200 to 8,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Vermilion River County1
Only Strathcona and La Malbaie have more. Their median is 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
Vermilion River County in brief
The registers count 1 historic place in Vermilion River County. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. Its housing is young: only 17% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
Questions about Vermilion River County’s history
How many historic places does Vermilion River County have on the registers?
1 historic place in Vermilion River County, from Canada’s heritage registers.
Why might a heritage building in Vermilion River County be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Vermilion River County shows up only as a Wikidata number.
How old are the homes in Vermilion River County?
The 2021 Census dates 17% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).