Photo: Samyaka.verma · CC BY-SA 3.0Heritage within reach of Carman: 54 places, 100 km or closer
The closest top-tier heritage to Carman is in Thompson, 26 km away. Of the 3 people born in Carman before 1914, Roderick Duncan McKenzie came first. Wikidata’s date for the municipality is 1870; it may record a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
Within 100 km of Carman, 34 top designations
The earliest date is Fort La Reine’s, 1738, 54 km away. They are 34 National Historic Sites, 14 provincial or municipal listings and 4 heritage railway stations. At 23 km, Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern) in Thompson is the closest.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern)National Historic Site · 1889–1890 · 23 km away, in Thompson |
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 54 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 55 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 55 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 56 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 56 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| First Homestead in Western CanadaNational Historic Site · 1872–1873 · 65 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Assiniboine Park PavilionListed historical resource · 69 km away, in Old Tuxedo |
| Riel HouseNational Historic Site · 1880–1882 · 72 km away, in Minnetonka |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Winnipeg, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 73 km away, in Rosser |
| Minto ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1914–1916 · 73 km away, in Minto |
| Ralph Connor HouseNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 74 km away, in Crescentwood |
The places within 100 km of Carman lean to the decades after Confederation
No place near Carman is close: these lie up to 100 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
47 dated places within 100 km make up the record. 7 predate Confederation. First by date comes Fort La Reine in Portage la Prairie, from 1738.
New homes are rare in Carman: 2.5% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
The busiest building years in Carman were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 35% of today’s homes. Like the typical town (18%), Carman has 19% of its homes from before 1961. Half of the homes standing in Carman today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Jack Carson and 2 others: Carman’s people of the past
The most recent birth is Jack Carson’s, in 1910. Before 1914, 3 births here made the record. In 1885 came the earliest, Roderick Duncan McKenzie. Longest lived was Horace Aylwin, 78 years in all (1980).
Everyone born in Carman → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
How Carman compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,500 to 3,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Downtown East Village, Guybourg and Saint-Isidore. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have none.
Carman and its neighbours
Carman in brief
In Carman, 19% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Its history in lives: Jack Carson (1910), Roderick Duncan McKenzie (1885) and Horace Aylwin (1902). Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Questions about Carman’s history
How many historic places does Carman have on the registers?
Not within Carman. Its nearest is a top designation: Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern), 23 km away in Thompson.
When did Carman become a municipality?
By Wikidata, Carman dates from 1870; the record doesn’t say whether that is a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
How old are the homes in Carman?
19% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Carman be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 2 more listings in Carman 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).