Heritage Railway Station · 1930–1931VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Gillam, Manitoba1st Street & Railway Ave.
Photo: Jasonbook99 · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Gillam · Canada’s heritage registers
1 historic place on the heritage registers in Gillam
In Gillam that place is VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Gillam, Manitoba, a heritage railway station, from 1930. Before 1961: just 8.5% of the homes, where most towns have 18%.
Historic places
1
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1930
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
8.5%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Gillam’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Other federal designations
Federal heritage in Gillam: one more place
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Homes by age
Gillam built the most from 1961 to 1980, 34% of today’s homes
New building has been slow in Gillam: 2.8% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. Gillam has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 34%, where most towns have 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 21% of Gillam’s, against 15% in the typical town.
8.5%
Before 1961
34%
1961–80
34%
1981–2000
21%
2001–15
2.8%
2016–21
GillamTypical 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
Gillam in brief
All told, Gillam has 1 historic place. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 8.5% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its designation dates from 1992.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- 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.
Questions about Gillam’s history
How many historic places does Gillam have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Gillam.
What is the oldest building in Gillam?
VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Gillam, Manitoba (Heritage Railway Station): the first construction date on its record is 1930.
How old are the homes in Gillam?
Before 1961: 8.5% 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).