Photo: Koppertone · CC BY-SA 3.03 heritage places lie within 100 km of Whitecourt
Its housing is mostly newer: 3.1% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Woodlands County, 9.4 km off. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is January 1, 1959: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Whitecourt’s surroundings: 3 historic places within 100 km
Among them are 2 National Historic Sites and a provincial or municipal listing. Between them, 2 towns share them, mainly Woodlands County and Lac Ste. Anne County. Closest of all is Whitecourt crater, in Woodlands County, 17 km off.
The 3 nearest, within 100 km
| Whitecourt craterProvincial historic resource · 17 km away, in Woodlands County |
| Fort AssiniboineNational Historic Site · 1823–1824 · 62 km away, in Woodlands County |
| Lac Ste. Anne PilgrimageNational Historic Site · 1889 · 97 km away, in Lac Ste. Anne County |
Whitecourt built the most from 1981 to 2000, 34% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Whitecourt’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 30% of Whitecourt’s, against 15% in the typical town. From 2016 on, Whitecourt built 3.6% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Whitecourt compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,600 to 10,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Eastern Passage, Contrecoeur, Yarmouth, Alexandria and Saint-Sacrement. The typical town its size has 0. 11 of them have none.
Whitecourt and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitecourt | 10,708 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Woodlands County | 4,778 | 2 | 1 | 1823 |
Whitecourt in brief
Few of its homes are old, 3.1% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Whitecourt’s history
How many historic places does Whitecourt have on the registers?
Inside Whitecourt, none so far; Whitecourt crater, 17 km away in Woodlands County, is the closest.
When did Whitecourt become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Whitecourt is January 1, 1959, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Whitecourt?
3.1% 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).