Heritage Railway Station · 1900–1901Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, Manitoba425-6th Avenue S.
Photo: VirdenPioneers · CC BY-SA 4.01historic place on the registers
History of Virden · Canada’s heritage registers
The registers record 1 historic place in Virden
Virden’s entry is Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, Manitoba (1900), a heritage railway station. Relative to its size Virden has 3 per 10,000 residents, more than 90% of Canadian towns. Wikidata knows one more provincial or municipal listing here that gets no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article. Homes from before 1961 make up 31% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town.
Historic places
1
3 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1900
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
31%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Virden’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Other federal designations
Federal heritage in Virden: one more place
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Leave Virden and the first historic place is “Canadian National Railways Station, Rivers, Manitoba”, 54 km away
The mix: 5 National Historic Sites, 3 heritage railway stations and 3 provincial or municipal listings. By age, R. D. McNaughton Building leads, from 1882, at 62 km. Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2, 70 km away, leads 5 places with the top designation.
The 11 nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian National Railways Station, Rivers, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 54 km away, in Riverdale |
| R. D. McNaughton BuildingMunicipal heritage property · 1882 · 62 km away, in Moosomin |
| Daly House MuseumMunicipal heritage site · 70 km away, in Brandon |
| Dominion Exhibition Display Building Nº 2National Historic Site · 1913–1914 · 70 km away, in Brandon |
| St. Matthew's Anglican CathedralProvincial heritage site · 1913 · 70 km away, in Brandon |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Brandon, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1913 · 71 km away, in Brandon |
| BCATP Hangar No. 1National Historic Site · 1940–1942 · 71 km away, in Brandon |
| BrockintonNational Historic Site · 78 km away, in Two Borders |
| Linear MoundsNational Historic Site · 82 km away, in Two Borders |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Minnedosa, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 90 km away, in Minnedosa |
| Camp HughesNational Historic Site · 1915 · 99 km away, in North Cypress-Langford |
Homes by age
New homes are rare in Virden: 1.8% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Virden built little from 1981 to 2000: 18% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. The busiest building years in Virden were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 34% of today’s homes. Half of the homes standing in Virden today were built before 1981.
31%
Before 1961
34%
1961–80
18%
1981–2000
15%
2001–15
1.8%
2016–21
VirdenTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Virden has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,300 to 3,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Virden1
Only Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Pictou and Saint-Jean-Baptiste have more. Their median is 0. 9 of them have none.
Neighbours
Virden and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virden | 3,322 | 1 | 0 | 1900 |
| Wallace-Woodworth | 2,983 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Virden in brief
The pre-1961 share of Virden’s homes is 31%, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 3 have more historic places. Beyond that, people of its past such as Lila Bell Wallace (1889) and William Albert Pommer (1895); and its one place was designated in 1990.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- 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. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
Questions about Virden’s history
How many historic places does Virden have on the registers?
1 historic place in Virden, from Canada’s heritage registers.
How old are the homes in Virden?
31% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
What is the oldest building in Virden?
Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Virden, Manitoba — its record dates it to 1900 (Heritage Railway Station).
Why might a heritage building in Virden be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Virden shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).