Photo: The original uploader was Northwest at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0Sifton and its setting: 12 historic places within 100 km
The nearest town to Sifton with a top designation is Brandon, 57 km away. Wikidata knows one more provincial or municipal listing here that gets no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article.
Near Sifton, within 100 km: 5 places of national rank
The mix: 5 National Historic Sites, 4 heritage railway stations and 3 provincial or municipal listings. Brandon, Two Borders and Virden hold most of them, among 7 towns. By age, R. D. McNaughton Building leads, from 1882, at 86 km.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 25 km away, in Virden |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Rivers, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 52 km away, in Riverdale |
| Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2National Historic Site · 1913–1914 · 57 km away, in Brandon |
| Daly House MuseumMunicipal heritage site · 57 km away, in Brandon |
| St. Matthew's Anglican CathedralProvincial heritage site · 1913 · 57 km away, in Brandon |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1913 · 58 km away, in Brandon |
| BCATP Hangar No. 1National Historic Site · 1940–1942 · 61 km away, in Brandon |
| BrockintonNational Historic Site · 63 km away, in Two Borders |
| Linear MoundsNational Historic Site · 66 km away, in Two Borders |
| R. D. McNaughton BuildingMunicipal heritage property · 1882 · 86 km away, in Moosomin |
| Camp HughesNational Historic Site · 1915 · 86 km away, in North Cypress-Langford |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Minnedosa, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 89 km away, in Minnedosa |
Within 100 km of Sifton, the record goes back to 1882
Reaching 100 km out from Sifton: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Oldest of all: R. D. McNaughton Building, Moosomin, 1882. 9 places within 100 km have a date.
Little new building in Sifton: 2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 28% of Sifton’s, against 15% in the typical town. At 27%, Sifton’s share of pre-1961 homes is above the typical town’s 18%. The busiest building years in Sifton were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 29% of today’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Sifton in brief
The pre-1961 share of Sifton’s homes is 27%, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Clifford McEwen (1896) is its person of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
Questions about Sifton’s history
How many historic places does Sifton have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Sifton; Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, Manitoba, in Virden, is 25 km away.
How old are the homes in Sifton?
Before 1961: 27% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Sifton be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Sifton, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets no page.
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).