Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2 · Photo: Kjyost · CC BY-SA 4.0Of Brandon’s dated places, Armoury is the oldest, from 1907. Brandon has 1.2 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 80% of Canadian towns. There are also 17 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages. The record has 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, 2 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station.
Two to begin with: Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2 and BCATP Hangar No. 1. There are photos here of 5 of Brandon’s designated places. Pictured and oldest in Brandon: “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, Manitoba”, 1911.
BCATP Hangar No. 1
Daly House Museum
St. Matthew's Anglican Cathedral
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, Manitoba+1See all photosPhotos 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.
One picture from before 1950: one old photograph of the town. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1922Public 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.
On the open record, Brandon as a municipality goes back to 1882, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Rail service is on record from 1911, when Brandon railway station opened.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. 2 places, placed by their register’s municipality, have no point and aren’t on the map.
Their designations span 1999 to 2001. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2 is the earliest, from 1913; the latest dates from 1940. Each one opens its own page.
The group holds 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and a heritage railway station. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Armoury is the earliest, from 1907; the latest dates from 1930. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Start with St. Matthew's Anglican Cathedral and Daly House Museum. Each one opens its own page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
From 2016 to 2021 Brandon added 5.9% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Brandon’s largest group of homes, 32%, went up from 1961 to 1980. 19% of Brandon’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Grant MacEwan reached 98, the longest life here, ending in 2000. The record holds 19 people born here before 1914. 19 Wikipedias cover Donald Woods, the most of anyone here.
Everyone born in Brandon → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 53,500 to 66,500 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 2. 6 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | 59,444 | 7 | 2 | 1907 |
| Whitehead | 1,824 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Elton | 1,437 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cornwallis | 4,705 | 0 | 0 | — |
Housing in Brandon includes 24% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 7 historic places in all, 2 with the highest designation; Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2 heads them. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population.
Most of its dated places come from the decades after Confederation: 4 of 6. Its people of the past include Donald Woods (1906), Russ Conway (1913) and Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (1913). Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1991 and 2001.
Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2 and BCATP Hangar No. 1.
Armoury (Recognized Federal Heritage Building): the first construction date on its record is 1907.
Before 1961: 24% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 17 more listings in Brandon are known through Wikidata alone, so they are 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).
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