Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0From Cranbrook, look 4.4 km away, to Electoral Area C, East Kootenay, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Murray McFarlane heads a list of 4 people born in Cranbrook before 1914.
Among them are 4 National Historic Sites and 3 provincial or municipal listings. Closest of all is Fort Steele, in Electoral Area C, East Kootenay, 15 km off. Count to 100 km and there are 7.
| Fort SteeleBritish Columbia designated provincial heritage site · 1864 · 15 km away, in Electoral Area C, East Kootenay |
| Fort SteeleNational Historic Site · 1887–1888 · 15 km away, in Electoral Area C, East Kootenay |
| ColemanNational Historic Site · 1903–1972 · 92 km away, in Crowsnest Pass |
| S.S. MoyieNational Historic Site · 1898–1899 · 93 km away, in Kaslo |
| Kaslo Municipal HallNational Historic Site · 1898–1899 · 94 km away, in Kaslo |
| Frank SlideProvincial historic resource · 99 km away, in Crowsnest Pass |
| LilleProvincial historic resource · 99 km away, in Crowsnest Pass |
On Wikidata the municipality of Cranbrook dates to 1898, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation. The municipality of Cranbrook was incorporated as a city in 1905.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Cranbrook, British Columbia”, revision 1383544562 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Places as far as 100 km from Cranbrook, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Fort Steele, in Electoral Area C, East Kootenay, goes back furthest, to 1864. Within 100 km, 5 records give a date. One predates Confederation.
17% of Cranbrook’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 3.6% of Cranbrook’s, about the typical 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Cranbrook’s homes are older than 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The widest known is Jim Brown: 5 Wikipedia editions. In 1908 came the earliest, Murray McFarlane. Reginald Robert Laird closes the list, born in 1913. Donald C. MacDonald lived longest, to 95, dying in 2008.
Everyone born in Cranbrook → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook | 22,703 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area C, East Kootenay | 7,006 | 2 | 1 | 1864 |
Its people of the past include Jim Brown (1909), Donald C. MacDonald (1913) and Murray McFarlane (1908). The census dates only 17% of its homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no historic place, against 1 for the middle town its size.
None within Cranbrook itself; the nearest is 15 km off: Fort Steele, in Electoral Area C, East Kootenay.
17% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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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).