How it began
Boissevain’s early dates, from 2015
Wikidata gives the municipality of Boissevain the date January 1, 2015, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. Its predecessor on record: Boissevain.
Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.00historic places on the registers
History of Boissevain · Canada’s heritage registers
Boissevain’s surroundings: 10 historic places within 100 km
The closest top-tier heritage to Boissevain is in Brandon, 68 km away. The earliest of 2 people born in Boissevain before 1914 is Errick Willis.
Historic places within 100 km
10
5 of the highest designation
Nearest historic place
67 km
Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2
Homes built before 1961
28%
typical town: 18%
Born here before 1914
2
the earliest in 1896
Around the town
10 places on Canada’s registers lie 100 km or less from Boissevain
Nearest comes Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2, 67 km off, in Brandon. Between them, 5 towns share them, mainly Brandon, Two Borders and North Cypress-Langford. “Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, Manitoba”, 93 km off, is the oldest: 1900.
The 10 nearest, within 100 km
| Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2National Historic Site · 1913–1914 · 67 km away, in Brandon |
| St. Matthew's Anglican CathedralProvincial heritage site · 1913 · 69 km away, in Brandon |
| Daly House MuseumMunicipal heritage site · 69 km away, in Brandon |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1913 · 69 km away, in Brandon |
| Linear MoundsNational Historic Site · 70 km away, in Two Borders |
| BrockintonNational Historic Site · 71 km away, in Two Borders |
| BCATP Hangar No. 1National Historic Site · 1940–1942 · 75 km away, in Brandon |
| Camp HughesNational Historic Site · 1915 · 82 km away, in North Cypress-Langford |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Rivers, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 90 km away, in Riverdale |
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 93 km away, in Virden |
The age of the area
The places within 100 km of Boissevain lean to the decades after Confederation
Reaching 100 km out from Boissevain: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
British North America 1760–18660
After Confederation 1867–19134
Wars and Depression 1914–19453
Since 1946 1946 on0
“Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, Manitoba”, in Virden, is the oldest (1900). 7 dated places within 100 km make up the record.
Homes by age
A town of older homes: 28% of Boissevain’s were built before 1961 (18% is typical)
The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 36% of Boissevain’s homes. From 2016 on, Boissevain built 3.6% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. Over half of the homes in Boissevain were already standing by 1981.
28%
Before 1961
36%
1961–80
21%
1981–2000
12%
2001–15
3.6%
2016–21
BoissevainTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
Boissevain in brief
The pre-1961 share of Boissevain’s homes is 28%, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: its past has lives on the record such as Errick Willis (1896) and Brant Little (1906).
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Boissevain’s history
How many historic places does Boissevain have on the registers?
None inside Boissevain yet. The nearest, Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2, carries the highest designation, 67 km away in Brandon.
How old are the homes in Boissevain?
The 2021 Census dates 28% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Boissevain be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Boissevain shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).