Provincial historic resourceWainwright Hotel
Photo: Carsell: Photographer · Public domain1historic place on the registers
History of Wainwright · Canada’s heritage registers
Wainwright’s past, on the record: 1 historic place
Scaled to its population, Wainwright’s 1.4 per 10,000 residents beats 82% of Canadian towns. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 5.4% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
Historic places
1
1.4 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
18%
typical town: 18%
Through time
Wainwright from 1912 to 1913
By date: 2 old photographs of the town. Scroll the strip and tap a picture to open it.
c. 1912
1913Public 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.
The map
Where Wainwright’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Wainwright: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The heritage closest to Wainwright: Paint Creek House, at 98 km
The registers hold one place within 100 km.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Paint Creek HouseProvincial historic resource · 98 km away, in Vermilion River County |
Homes by age
Wainwright built the most from 1961 to 1980, 29% of today’s homes
Homes from before 1961 are 18% of Wainwright’s housing, about the typical 18%. 21% of Wainwright’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Count back from today and half of Wainwright’s homes are older than 2001.
18%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
26%
1981–2000
21%
2001–15
5.4%
2016–21
WainwrightTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
Wainwright and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wainwright | 6,996 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Wainwright No. 61 | 4,576 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Wainwright in brief
Wainwright has 18% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. The other figures are unremarkable: one historic place is about usual for its size (the median is 1).
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
Questions about Wainwright’s history
How many historic places does Wainwright have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Wainwright.
How old are the homes in Wainwright?
18% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).