Photo: Mennowiki · CC BY-SA 4.028 registered heritage sites stand within 50 km of Mitchell
For the highest designations, the closest town to Mitchell is Stuartburn, 42 km off. The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 11%.
Mitchell’s surroundings: 28 historic places within 50 km
Oldest of them is “Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar” (1738), 49 km off. Closest of all is Riel House, in Minnetonka, 42 km off. Between them, 13 towns share them, mainly South Portage, North St. Boniface and Broadway-Assiniboine.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Riel HouseNational Historic Site · 1880–1882 · 42 km away, in Minnetonka |
| St. Vital Historical SocietyListed historical resource · 1994 · 46 km away, in Glenwood |
| Maison Gabrielle-RoyNational Historic Site · 1905–1906 · 48 km away, in Central St. Boniface |
| Grey Nuns' ConventNational Historic Site · 1846–1852 · 48 km away, in Central St. Boniface |
| Saint Boniface CathedralListed historical resource · 1972 · 48 km away, in Central St. Boniface |
| The ForksNational Historic Site · 49 km away, in South Portage |
| Roslyn Court ApartmentsNational Historic Site · 1909–1910 · 49 km away, in River-Osborne |
| Ralph Connor HouseNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 49 km away, in Crescentwood |
| St. Boniface City HallNational Historic Site · 1905–1906 · 49 km away, in North St. Boniface |
| Forts Rouge, Garry and GibraltarNational Historic Site · 1738–1837 · 49 km away, in Broadway-Assiniboine |
| Fort Garry HotelNational Historic Site · 1911–1914 · 49 km away, in Broadway-Assiniboine |
| Union Station / Winnipeg Railway Station (Canadian National)National Historic Site · 1908–1912 · 49 km away, in South Portage |
Around Mitchell, within 50 km, the dated heritage reaches back to 1738
Out to 50 km from Mitchell, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
The chart rests on 24 dated places within 50 km. 2 go back before 1867. The earliest is “Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar” in Broadway-Assiniboine, begun in 1738.
13% of Mitchell’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Count back from today and half of Mitchell’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 31% of Mitchell’s, against 15% in the typical town. In Mitchell, 22% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Mitchell compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 19,800 to 20,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Fort York-Liberty Village and Loyalist. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Mitchell and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell | 19,950 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Steinbach | 21,671 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St-Pierre-Jolys | 1,371 | 0 | 0 | — |
| La Broquerie | 7,808 | 0 | 0 | — |
| De Salaberry | 4,401 | 0 | 0 | — |
Mitchell in brief
Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 11%, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0. The rest is about typical: one person of its past, A.D. Penner (1910).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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. 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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 Mitchell’s history
How many historic places does Mitchell have on the registers?
None in Mitchell itself. The closest is Riel House in Minnetonka, 42 km away, a place of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Mitchell?
11% predate 1961, where 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).