Rogers Pass · Photo: bulliver · CC BY-SA 2.0Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap has 10 historic places on the registers, 5 in the top tier
On the list: 3 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 2 heritage railway stations. Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s 27 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 99% of Canadian towns. The oldest dated place, Howse Pass, goes back to 1806. Just beyond the boundary, the registers place one more.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s heritage in 8 photos, and 3 pictures of its past
Rogers Pass and Twin Falls Tea House lead the set. 8 of the places on Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s heritage registers are pictured here; the others keep their register record. Old pictures of 3 places in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap fill their own pages.
Twin Falls Tea House
Howse Pass
Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin
Arthur O. Wheeler Hut
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Field, British Columbia+3See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
1880–1902: Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap in old pictures
The oldest views of 3 of its historic places, from oldest to latest. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
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1900s1902Public 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.
Where Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
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.
5 places in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap with the highest designation
They date from 1806 (Howse Pass) to 1922. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The first was designated in 1943, the latest in 1992. Each one opens its own page.
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The group holds 3 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 2 heritage railway stations. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. They date from 1916 (“Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Glacier, British Columbia”) to 1953. Each one opens its own page.
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FedIn Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, houses and stations, lighthouses and bridges are level at 2 each
The record covers 4 kinds of building and site. Leading by designation: Howse Pass and Boat Encampment.
The groups come from each place’s name and its recorded functions, by what it was built as.
In Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, the wars and the Depression left the most behind
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
2 of the 10 dated places were built before Confederation.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap on the registers since 1943
The places by the year of their designation.
Boat Encampment went on the registers first, in 1943. 3 came in 1992. No place here has been designated since 2011.
Just outside Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
Just outside Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap: 1
| Athabasca PassNational Historic Site · 900 m outside the town |
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap is still building: 9.1% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
At 11%, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s share of pre-1961 homes is under the typical town’s 18%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 33% of Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s homes. Over half of the homes in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap were already standing by 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,700 to 3,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. 12 of them have none.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap | 3,672 | 10 | 5 | 1806 |
| Golden | 4,433 | 0 | 0 | — |
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap in brief
Inside Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap there are 10 historic places, 5 with the highest designation, led by Howse Pass. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. By date, the wars and the Depression lead: 5 of 10. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 11% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: its past has one life on the record, Harry Beasley (1892).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s history
Which places in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap have the highest designation?
Howse Pass, Boat Encampment, Rogers Pass, Twin Falls Tea House and Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin.
What is the oldest building in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Howse Pass, a National Historic Site, begun in 1806.
How old are the homes in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
11% 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).