- Type
- Exhibition Centre
- Designated
- 1973
Linear Mounds
In French: Monticules linéaires
Also known as Sourisford Burial Mounds
About Linear Mounds
National Historic Site status goes to 2 places in Two Borders, Linear Mounds among them.
Located near the Souris River in southern Manitoba, the Linear Mounds burial site is a sophisticated construction consisting of three mounds spread out over a large area of land. The first is a linear mound with a round terminal mound at either end, approximately 258 metres long and running north to south. The second is a linear mound, also with a round terminal mound at each end, 194 metres long, and running east to west. The final mound is conical, approximately 22 metres in diameter and lying just west of the south end of the north-south mound.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Linear Mounds National Historic Site of Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada · in the register’s words, not edited
National Historic Site status comes on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Finding Linear Mounds
Two Borders
No other historic place stands within a short walk; the town’s others are farther afield.
Questions about Linear Mounds
What is Linear Mounds?
Linear Mounds became a National Historic Site in 1973.
Is Linear Mounds protected?
National Historic Site status commemorates; legal protection, where there is any, comes from the province or municipality, or from federal ownership.
Can you visit Linear Mounds?
Its exterior is visible from public ground; access inside is up to the owner.
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.
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).