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Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0North Norfolk has 2.4 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 88% of Canadian towns. The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 29%.
One place in North Norfolk is on the registers, and this is it: MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of North Norfolk dates from January 1, 2015; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. Its predecessor on record: MacGregor and North Norfolk.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Reaching 50 km out from North Norfolk: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Dated places within 50 km: 6. One predates Confederation. Oldest of all: Fort La Reine, Portage la Prairie, 1738.
Among them are 4 National Historic Sites and 2 heritage railway stations. Between them, 2 towns share them, mainly Portage la Prairie and Long Plain 6. All told, 6 places are within 50 km.
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 32 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 33 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 35 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 35 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 35 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| First Homestead in Western CanadaNational Historic Site · 1872–1873 · 37 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
Count back from today and half of North Norfolk’s homes are older than 1981. North Norfolk’s largest group of homes, 36%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 11% of North Norfolk’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 4,100 to 4,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: L'Ange-Gardien and Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
The pre-1961 share of North Norfolk’s homes is 29%, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. For the rest, its past has one life on the record, Leslie Harvey Eyres (1892).
1 historic place inside North Norfolk, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
The 2021 Census dates 29% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).
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