Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Heritage within reach of Cartier: 45 places, 50 km or closer
The nearest town to Cartier with a top designation is Portage la Prairie, 28 km away. Building from 2016 to 2021 gave it 4.9% of its homes, where most towns have 4.1%.
45 historic places within 50 km of Cartier
They are 28 National Historic Sites, 12 provincial or municipal listings and 3 heritage railway stations. Closest of all is “Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Winnipeg, Manitoba”, in Rosser, 37 km off. Portage La Prairie Public Building, 38 km off, is the nearest of 28 top-tier places.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Winnipeg, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 37 km away, in Rosser |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 38 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 38 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 38 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Assiniboine Park PavilionListed historical resource · 39 km away, in Old Tuxedo |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 40 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 40 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| First Homestead in Western CanadaNational Historic Site · 1872–1873 · 41 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Minto ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1914–1916 · 43 km away, in Minto |
| Westminster United ChurchProvincial heritage site · 44 km away, in Wolseley |
| Cornish LibraryListed historical resource · 44 km away, in Crescentwood |
| Ralph Connor HouseNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 44 km away, in Crescentwood |
The places within 50 km of Cartier lean to the decades after Confederation
The nearest historic places to Cartier, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
Within 50 km, 39 records give a date. 4 go back before 1867. The oldest is Fort La Reine in Portage la Prairie, from 1738.
Cartier’s building boom came from 1981 to 2000: 26% of its homes
Before 1961: 23% of Cartier’s homes, against 18% in most towns. 20% of Cartier’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. More than half of Cartier’s housing predates 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Cartier compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,700 to 3,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Sainte-Claire has more. The middle one has 0. For 15, the registers list nothing.
Cartier and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartier | 3,739 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St. François Xavier | 1,607 | 0 | 0 | — |
Cartier in brief
Before 1961: 23% of Cartier’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
Questions about Cartier’s history
How many historic places does Cartier have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Cartier; Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Rosser, is 37 km away.
How old are the homes in Cartier?
Before 1961: 23% 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).