How it began
Back to 2015: Pembina’s first record
In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Pembina dates from January 1, 2015; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. It succeeded Manitou and Pembina.
Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.00historic places on the registers
History of Pembina · Canada’s heritage registers
In Pembina, 40% of homes go back before 1961
The typical town has 18%: Pembina has 2.3 times the share. Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern), 26 km from Pembina, heads a list of 9 historic places within 100 km. For the highest designations, the closest town is Thompson, 23 km off.
Historic places within 100 km
9
6 of the highest designation
Nearest historic place
26 km
Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern)
Homes built before 1961
40%
typical town: 18%
Born here before 1914
1
the earliest in 1910
The age of the area
From 1738 on: the dated places within 100 km of Pembina
The area here stretches to 100 km around Pembina: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
New France before 17601
British North America 1760–18660
After Confederation 1867–19136
Wars and Depression 1914–19451
Since 1946 1946 on0
Oldest of all: Fort La Reine, Portage la Prairie, 1738. 8 dated places within 100 km make up the record. One is older than 1867.
Around the town
Leave Pembina and the first historic place is Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern), 26 km away
They are 6 National Historic Sites, 2 heritage railway stations and a provincial or municipal listing. Oldest of them is Fort La Reine (1738), 81 km off. Their towns number 5: Portage la Prairie, Thompson and North Norfolk first.
The 9 nearest, within 100 km
| Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern)National Historic Site · 1889–1890 · 26 km away, in Thompson |
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 81 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water TowerMunicipal heritage site · 82 km away, in North Norfolk |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 82 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 84 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 84 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 84 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| First Homestead in Western CanadaNational Historic Site · 1872–1873 · 93 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Fort DufferinNational Historic Site · 1872–1874 · 100 km away, in Emerson-Franklin |
Homes by age
New homes are rare in Pembina: 3.2% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Few of Pembina’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 8.6%, the norm 15%. Only 14% of Pembina’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Pembina has an unusual share of homes built from 1961 to 1980: 35%, where most towns have 27%.
40%
Before 1961
35%
1961–80
14%
1981–2000
8.6%
2001–15
3.2%
2016–21
PembinaTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
Pembina in brief
Before 1961: 40% of Pembina’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and one person of its past, Thelma Forbes (1910).
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- 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.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- 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.
Questions about Pembina’s history
How many historic places does Pembina have on the registers?
Not within Pembina. Its nearest is a top designation: Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern), 26 km away in Thompson.
How old are the homes in Pembina?
Before 1961: 40% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Pembina be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 3 further listings in Pembina show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).