Photo: Words in the Wind · CC BY-SA 4.0Before 1961: 36% of the homes in Souris
Souris has 2.1 times what the typical town has (18%). The nearest heritage to Souris is Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2, 32 km off, one of 6 places within 50 km. The closest top-tier heritage is in Brandon, 32 km from here. Austin Cooper heads a list of 4 people born in Souris before 1914.
Around Souris, within 50 km, the dated heritage reaches back to 1911
Places as far as 50 km from Souris, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
“Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, Manitoba”, in Brandon, is the oldest (1911). 5 places within 50 km have a date.
6 places on Canada’s registers lie 50 km or less from Souris
Oldest of them is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, Manitoba” (1911), 34 km off. Nearest comes Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2, 32 km off, in Brandon. Brandon and Riverdale hold most of them, among 2 towns.
The 6 nearest, within 50 km
| Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2National Historic Site · 1913–1914 · 32 km away, in Brandon |
| St. Matthew's Anglican CathedralProvincial heritage site · 1913 · 33 km away, in Brandon |
| Daly House MuseumMunicipal heritage site · 33 km away, in Brandon |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1913 · 34 km away, in Brandon |
| BCATP Hangar No. 1National Historic Site · 1940–1942 · 39 km away, in Brandon |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Rivers, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 45 km away, in Riverdale |
36% of Souris’s homes were built before 1961
Few of Souris’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 18%, the norm 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 8.7% of Souris’s, against 15% in the typical town. From 2016 to 2021 Souris added 4.9% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 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.
Souris’s 4 natives of the years before 1914
Alf Barbour is the most written about, in 3 languages. The earliest is Austin Cooper, born in 1890. Mel Kerr lived longest, to 77, dying in 1980. At the other end is Mel Kerr, from 1903.
Everyone born in Souris → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
How Souris compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,700 to 2,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Victoria County, Subdivision A and Wakefield have more. Their median is 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Souris in brief
The 2021 Census dates 36% of Souris’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Alf Barbour (1891), Art Townsend (1902) and Austin Cooper (1890) lead its people of the past. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
Questions about Souris’s history
How many historic places does Souris have on the registers?
Inside Souris, none so far. At 32 km, Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2 in Brandon is the nearest, with the top designation.
How old are the homes in Souris?
Before 1961: 36% of its homes; 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).