Photo: Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.033% of Norfolk-Treherne’s homes were built before 1961
The typical town has 18%: Norfolk-Treherne has 1.9 times the share. MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower, 38 km from Norfolk-Treherne, heads a list of 7 historic places within 50 km. The nearest town with a top designation is Long Plain 6, 29 km away. Andrew Watson Myles heads a list of 2 people born in Norfolk-Treherne before 1914.
The 50 km around Norfolk-Treherne keep buildings from as early as 1738
The nearest historic places to Norfolk-Treherne, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
6 places within 50 km carry a construction date. One is older than 1867. Fort La Reine, in Portage la Prairie, is the oldest (1738).
Near Norfolk-Treherne, within 50 km: 4 places of national rank
They stand in 4 towns, Portage la Prairie, North Norfolk and Thompson among them. Nearest comes MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower, 38 km off, in North Norfolk. Within 50 km there are 7 in all.
The 7 nearest, within 50 km
| MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water TowerMunicipal heritage site · 38 km away, in North Norfolk |
| Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern)National Historic Site · 1889–1890 · 44 km away, in Thompson |
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 45 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 46 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 48 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 49 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 49 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
Little new building in Norfolk-Treherne: 2.3% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Norfolk-Treherne has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 30%, where most towns have 23%. Few of Norfolk-Treherne’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 7.8%, the norm 15%. Over half of the homes in Norfolk-Treherne were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Norfolk-Treherne in brief
Older stock first: 33% of homes in Norfolk-Treherne were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: people of its past such as Andrew Watson Myles (1884) and Lloyd Stinson (1904).
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.
- 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 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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Norfolk-Treherne’s history
How many historic places does Norfolk-Treherne have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Norfolk-Treherne; MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower, in North Norfolk, is 38 km away.
How old are the homes in Norfolk-Treherne?
33% 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).