Photo: eileenmak · CC BY 2.0In a 100 km circle around Morden: 12 places on the registers
The nearest town to Morden with a top designation is Thompson, 20 km away. Charles Holland Locke heads a list of 5 people born in Morden before 1914. Wikidata gives 1882 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged.
Looking back at Morden
From before 1950 comes one old photograph of the town. Open it full screen with a tap.
c. 1923Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
12 designated places lie within 100 km of Morden
Between them, 6 towns share them, mainly Portage la Prairie, Emerson-Franklin and Thompson. Oldest of them is Fort La Reine (1738), 86 km off. They are 7 National Historic Sites, 3 heritage railway stations and 2 provincial or municipal listings.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern)National Historic Site · 1889–1890 · 22 km away, in Thompson |
| Fort DufferinNational Historic Site · 1872–1874 · 68 km away, in Emerson-Franklin |
| All Saints Anglican ChurchMunicipal heritage site · 1879 · 69 km away, in Emerson-Franklin |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Emerson, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1915 · 69 km away, in Emerson-Franklin |
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 86 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 87 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 88 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 88 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 88 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| First Homestead in Western CanadaNational Historic Site · 1872–1873 · 98 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Assiniboine Park PavilionListed historical resource · 98 km away, in Old Tuxedo |
| Riel HouseNational Historic Site · 1880–1882 · 99 km away, in Minnetonka |
Near Morden, within 100 km: built places from 1738 on
Reaching 100 km out from Morden: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Fort La Reine, in Portage la Prairie, goes back furthest, to 1738. Within 100 km, 11 records give a date. Before Confederation: one.
Morden is still building: 9.4% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
More of Morden’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 29%. Morden has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 25%, where most towns have 15%. 14% of Morden’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
5 people born in Morden before 1914
In 1887 came the earliest, Charles Holland Locke. The latest, Jim Barrie, was born in 1904. Of them all, Charles Holland Locke lived longest: 93 years, until 1980. Fame, by Wikipedia: Charles Holland Locke first, in 4 languages.
Everyone born in Morden → 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 Morden compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 11,500 to 11,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Selkirk, Bowness and Ramara have more. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Morden and its neighbours
Morden in brief
Its people of the past include Charles Holland Locke (1887), Howard Waldemar Winkler (1891) and John MacAulay (1895). Its homes are mostly newer: 14% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Morden’s history
How many historic places does Morden have on the registers?
None inside Morden yet. The nearest, Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern), carries the highest designation, 22 km away in Thompson.
When did Morden become a municipality?
By Wikidata, Morden dates from 1882; the record doesn’t say whether that is a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
How old are the homes in Morden?
14% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).