Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Kamloops Memorial Arena · Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0On the list: a heritage railway station, a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a provincial or municipal listing. Canadian National Railway Station, Kamloops, British Columbia, begun in 1926, is the oldest by its record. Scaled to its population, Kamloops’s 0.5 per 10,000 residents beats 74% of Canadian towns.
Among them: Kamloops Memorial Arena and “Canadian National Railway Station, Kamloops, British Columbia”. There are photos here of 2 of Kamloops’s designated places.
Photos 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.
2 old photographs of the town, then the oldest view of one of its historic places, set out by date. Scroll the strip and tap a picture to open it.
1886
c. 1912
1927Public 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.
Wikidata gives the municipality of Kamloops the date 1811, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. By 1927 the place had a station: Kamloops railway station.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. 3 places, placed by their register’s municipality, have no point and aren’t on the map.
Their designations span 1924 to 2024. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Start with Fort Kamloops and The Former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Each one opens its own page.
Designations came from 1992 to 2013. They are a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The record covers 4 kinds of building and site. At the head of the list: Fort Kamloops and The Former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
From 2016 to 2021 Kamloops added 6.9% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Kamloops’s largest group of homes, 40%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Count back from today and half of Kamloops’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.
Norman William Whittaker comes first, born in 1893. The latest, Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie, was born in 1913. At 89, Frank Robert Miller outlived the rest, dying in 1997. Fame, by Wikipedia: Norman William Whittaker first, in 4 languages.
Everyone born in Kamloops → 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamloops | 108,793 | 5 | 2 | 1926 |
| Kamloops 1 | 4,362 | 0 | 0 | — |
Kamloops holds 5 historic places on Canada’s registers, 2 with the highest designation, including Fort Kamloops. Among the lives from its past: Norman William Whittaker (1893), Frank Robert Miller (1908) and Nicholas Morant (1910). Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 11% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: it has 5 historic places, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 5); and the designations ran from 1924 to 2024.
Fort Kamloops and The Former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Canadian National Railway Station, Kamloops, British Columbia (Heritage Railway Station): the first construction date on its record is 1926.
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).
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