Photo: R Reimer at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0The heritage near Gimli: 48 places in a 100 km radius
Heritage of the first rank begins 52 km from Gimli, in St. Andrews. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is 1875: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Top-ranked heritage near Gimli: 32 places within 100 km
Count to 100 km and there are 48. Oldest of them is “Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar” (1738), 84 km off. They belong to 24 towns, chiefly North St. Boniface, St. Andrews and South Portage.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| All Saints Anglican ChurchMunicipal heritage site · 1884 · 49 km away, in Woodlands |
| Lower Fort GarryNational Historic Site · 1830–1851 · 58 km away, in St. Andrews |
| Red River FloodwayNational Historic Site · 1962–1969 · 61 km away, in St. Clements |
| St. Andrews Caméré Curtain Bridge DamNational Historic Site · 1907–1911 · 62 km away, in St. Andrews |
| St. Andrew's Anglican ChurchNational Historic Site · 1845–1850 · 63 km away, in St. Andrews |
| St. Andrew's RectoryNational Historic Site · 1852–1855 · 63 km away, in St. Andrews |
| St. Boniface Hospital Nurses' ResidenceNational Historic Site · 1927–1929 · 63 km away, in St. Andrews |
| Miss Davis' School Residence / Twin OaksNational Historic Site · 1850–1860 · 65 km away, in St. Andrews |
| Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate ConceptionNational Historic Site · 1930–1939 · 72 km away, in Oakbank |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Winnipeg, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 79 km away, in Rosser |
| Battle of Seven OaksNational Historic Site · 1816 · 79 km away, in Seven Oaks |
| Seven Oaks House MuseumListed historical resource · 1952 · 79 km away, in Seven Oaks |
The 100 km around Gimli keep buildings from as early as 1738
The area here stretches to 100 km around Gimli: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
“Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar”, in Broadway-Assiniboine, is the oldest (1738). The chart rests on 42 dated places within 100 km. 7 predate Confederation.
Gimli’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 27% of its homes
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 19% of Gimli’s, against 15% in the typical town. Before 1961: 23% of Gimli’s homes, against 18% in most towns. From 2016 on, Gimli built 4.6% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Gimli compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,800 to 7,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Perth, Parkhill and Wainwright have more. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Gimli and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gimli | 6,914 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Winnipeg Beach | 1,480 | 0 | 0 | — |
Gimli in brief
Older stock first: 23% of homes in Gimli were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. The rest is about typical: its past has one life on the record, Michael Ewanchuk (1908).
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. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- 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.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- 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 grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
Questions about Gimli’s history
How many historic places does Gimli have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Gimli; All Saints Anglican Church, in Woodlands, is 49 km away.
When did Gimli become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Gimli to 1875. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Gimli?
The 2021 Census dates 23% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Gimli be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 2 more listings in Gimli 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).