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History of Vermilion · Canada’s heritage registers

The railway reached Vermilion in 1905

Within 100 km of Vermilion there are 7 designated places; Paint Creek House, at 48 km, is the closest. The newest homes, 2016 to 2021, are 2.7% of the total, the typical town 4.1%.

Historic places within 100 km

3 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

48 km

Paint Creek House

Homes built before 1961

22%

typical town: 18%

Born here before 1914

the earliest in 1907

Through time

Looking back at Vermilion

One picture from before 1950: one old photograph of the town. Tap it to see it full screen.

Confederation to 1900Original description: Cree Camp on the prairie, south of Vermilion (Lat NPhoto: Charles Horetzky · Public domain

Public 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.

How it began

1902 and after: Vermilion’s milestones

In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Vermilion dates from 1902; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. Vermilion took its legal form as a village in 1906. Vermilion was on the railway from 1905.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Vermilion, Alberta”, revision 1373521732 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

Around the town

Within 100 km of Vermilion, 3 top designations

The mix: 4 provincial or municipal listings and 3 National Historic Sites. Fort Pitt, 74 km off, is the oldest: 1829. All told, 7 places are within 100 km.

The 7 nearest, within 100 km

Paint Creek HouseProvincial historic resource · 48 km away, in Vermilion River County

Fort de l'IsleProvincial historic resource · 49 km away, in St. Paul County No. 19

Wainwright HotelProvincial historic resource · 58 km away, in Wainwright

Frog LakeNational Historic Site · 1885 · 73 km away, in Bonnyville No. 87

Fort PittNational Historic Site · 1829–1831 · 74 km away, in Frenchman Butte No. 501

Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of St. MaryProvincial historic resource · 81 km away, in Two Hills County No. 21

Frenchman ButteNational Historic Site · 1885 · 90 km away, in Frenchman Butte No. 501

Homes by age

The biggest share of Vermilion’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 33%

Half of the homes standing in Vermilion today were built before 1981. Before 1961: 22% of Vermilion’s homes, near the usual 18%. Building from 1981 to 2000 gave Vermilion 27% of its homes, near the usual 23%.

22%

Before 1961

33%

1961–80

27%

1981–2000

16%

2001–15

2.7%

2016–21

VermilionTypical 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

How Vermilion compares with 16 towns its size

Towns of 4,200 to 4,200 residents, by places on the registers.

Electoral Area F, Central Kootenay0

Jackson Heights0

Merivale Gardens - Grenfell Glen - Pineglen - Country Place0

Port Hardy0

Vermilion0

Ahead of it: Carleton-sur-Mer, La Pocatière and Napierville. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.

In brief

Vermilion in brief

Of the homes standing in Vermilion, 22% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0. For the rest, Ernest Kenny (1907) is its person of the past on the record.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
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 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.
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.

Questions about Vermilion’s history

How many historic places does Vermilion have on the registers?

Vermilion has none of its own yet. Paint Creek House, in Vermilion River County, is the nearest, 48 km away.

How old are the homes in Vermilion?

22% 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).