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Photo: Ken Eckert · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident Roblin outdoes 90% of Canadian towns, with 3.1 for every 10,000 people. That place is Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Roblin, Manitoba, a heritage railway station, from 1906. Wikidata knows one more provincial or municipal listing here that gets no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article.
One place in Roblin is on the registers, and this is it: “Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Roblin, Manitoba”.
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On Wikidata the municipality of Roblin dates to January 1, 2015, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation. The municipality took over from Hillsburg.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The mix: 3 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station. Esterhazy Flour Mill, 82 km off, is the oldest: 1904. At 33 km, Inglis Grain Elevators in Riding Mountain West is the closest.
| Inglis Grain ElevatorsNational Historic Site · 1922–1942 · 33 km away, in Riding Mountain West |
| Esterhazy Flour MillNational Historic Site · 1904–1908 · 82 km away, in Esterhazy |
| Ukrainian Catholic Church of the ResurrectionNational Historic Site · 1936–1940 · 90 km away, in Dauphin |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Dauphin, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1912–1913 · 91 km away, in Dauphin |
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 5.3% of Roblin’s, against 15% in the typical town. 23% of Roblin’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. New building in Roblin runs at the usual pace: 3.6% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%.
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 3,200 to 3,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Beaumont and Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré have more. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Before 1961: 23% of Roblin’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 1 historic place. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: its one place was designated in 1991.
1 historic place in Roblin, from Canada’s heritage registers.
Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Roblin, Manitoba — its record dates it to 1906 (Heritage Railway Station).
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Roblin, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets no page.
23% 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).
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