Xá:ytem / Hatzic Rock · Photo: Kyle Lawrence · CC BY-SA 3.0

2historic places on the registers

History of Mission · Canada’s heritage registers

Mission: 2 historic places, all in the top tier

Go back to 1909 in Mission and you reach Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation, the oldest of its places. Per resident Mission has more than 74% of Canadian towns: 0.4 for every 10,000 people.

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Historic places

0.4 per 10,000 residents

Highest designations

National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings

Oldest building

1909

the first construction date on its record

Homes built before 1961

11%

typical town: 18%

In pictures

Mission’s historic places in 2 photos

Each of Mission’s two designated places has a photo. Up first are Xá:ytem / Hatzic Rock and Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation.

Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation

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.

How it began

1868 and after: Mission’s milestones

As a municipality, Mission carries the date 1868 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation. The name Mission comes from St. Mary's residential school.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where Mission’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

Highest designations

Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.

The 2, by tier

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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.

Highest designations

2 places in Mission with the highest designation

Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation and Xá:ytem / Hatzic Rock lead the list. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The first was designated in 1992, the latest in 2004. Each one opens its own page.

National Historic Site · 1909–1913Stave Falls Hydro-Electric InstallationPhoto: Moy toy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Commons file

National Historic SiteXá:ytem / Hatzic Rock35087 Lougheed StreetPhoto: Kyle Lawrence · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file

Around the town

Mission’s surroundings: 7 historic places within 25 km

Nearest comes Abbotsford Sikh Temple, 11 km off, in Abbotsford. Fort Langley, 19 km off, is the oldest: 1839. Between them, 2 towns share them, mainly Langley and Abbotsford.

The 7 nearest, within 25 km

Abbotsford Sikh TempleNational Historic Site · 1910–1913 · 11 km away, in Abbotsford

Northeast BastionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1957–1958 · 19 km away, in Langley

StorehouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1840–1872 · 19 km away, in Langley

Fort LangleyNational Historic Site · 1839–1841 · 19 km away, in Langley

Servants' QuartersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1957–1958 · 19 km away, in Langley

Big HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1960 · 19 km away, in Langley

Saint Andrew's United ChurchListed in a community heritage register · 20 km away, in Langley

Homes by age

Few of Mission’s homes are older than 1961: 11%, against 18%

19% of Mission’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. New building is strong in Mission: 7% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 32% of Mission’s homes.

11%

Before 1961

31%

1961–80

32%

1981–2000

19%

2001–15

2016–21

MissionTypical 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

Mission and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Highest	Oldest
Mission	47,280	2	2	1909
Electoral Area G, Fraser Valley	1,808	0	0	—
Electoral Area F, Fraser Valley	1,556	0	0	—
Abbotsford	175,358	1	1	1910

In brief

Mission in brief

Canada’s heritage lists give Mission 2 historic places, 2 with the highest designation. Before 1961: just 11% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: 2 historic places is about usual for its size (the median is 4); people of its past such as Joseph E. Hallonquist (1895) and Phil Gaglardi (1913); and the list grew between 1992 and 2004.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
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.
The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.

Questions about Mission’s history

Which places in Mission have the highest designation?

These: Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation and Xá:ytem / Hatzic Rock.

What is the oldest building in Mission?

Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation, a National Historic Site, begun in 1909.

How old are the homes in Mission?

Before 1961: 11% of its homes; 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).