Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0In a 50 km circle around Beausejour: 40 places on the registers
Heritage of the first rank begins 26 km from Beausejour, in St. Clements. Of the 2 people born in Beausejour before 1914, John Mouat Turner came first. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from 1874, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding.
Beausejour’s area holds 30 top-tier places within 50 km
The record reaches back to 1738 with “Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar”, 48 km away. They are 30 National Historic Sites, 9 provincial or municipal listings and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. North St. Boniface, St. Andrews and South Portage hold most of them, among 17 towns.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate ConceptionNational Historic Site · 1930–1939 · 19 km away, in Oakbank |
| Red River FloodwayNational Historic Site · 1962–1969 · 30 km away, in St. Clements |
| Lower Fort GarryNational Historic Site · 1830–1851 · 30 km away, in St. Andrews |
| St. Andrews Caméré Curtain Bridge DamNational Historic Site · 1907–1911 · 30 km away, in St. Andrews |
| St. Andrew's Anglican ChurchNational Historic Site · 1845–1850 · 33 km away, in St. Andrews |
| St. Andrew's RectoryNational Historic Site · 1852–1855 · 33 km away, in St. Andrews |
| St. Boniface Hospital Nurses' ResidenceNational Historic Site · 1927–1929 · 33 km away, in St. Andrews |
| Miss Davis' School Residence / Twin OaksNational Historic Site · 1850–1860 · 34 km away, in St. Andrews |
| Seven Oaks House MuseumListed historical resource · 1952 · 45 km away, in Seven Oaks |
| Battle of Seven OaksNational Historic Site · 1816 · 45 km away, in Seven Oaks |
| Cathedral of St. JohnProvincial heritage site · 46 km away, in Luxton |
| Maison Gabrielle-RoyNational Historic Site · 1905–1906 · 46 km away, in Central St. Boniface |
Within 50 km of Beausejour, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
The area here stretches to 50 km around Beausejour: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
The bars count 37 dated places within 50 km. 7 predate Confederation. “Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar”, in Broadway-Assiniboine, is the oldest (1738).
A growing town: 8.1% of Beausejour’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
More of Beausejour’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 28%. 26% of Beausejour’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Count back from today and half of Beausejour’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.
Beausejour and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beausejour | 3,565 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Brokenhead | 5,931 | 0 | 0 | — |
Beausejour in brief
Beausejour has 26% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and John Mouat Turner (1905) and Bob Davie (1912) are its people of the past on the record.
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 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.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Questions about Beausejour’s history
How many historic places does Beausejour have on the registers?
Inside Beausejour, none so far. At 19 km, Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Oakbank is the nearest, with the top designation.
When did Beausejour become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Beausejour is 1874, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Beausejour?
The 2021 Census dates 26% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Beausejour be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Beausejour is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).