How it began
Milestones of WestLake-Gladstone since 2015
January 1, 2015 is the date of WestLake-Gladstone’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes. The municipality took over from Gladstone.
Photo: Words in the Wind · CC BY 4.00historic places on the registers
History of WestLake-Gladstone · Canada’s heritage registers
WestLake-Gladstone keeps its older homes: 34% from before 1961
Against 18% in the typical town, WestLake-Gladstone has 1.9 times the share. The registers count 26 places within 100 km of WestLake-Gladstone; the closest, MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower, is 33 km away. Neepawa, 37 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank. Of the 4 people born in WestLake-Gladstone before 1914, Gordon S. Fahrni came first.
Historic places within 100 km
26
9 of the highest designation
Nearest historic place
33 km
MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower
Homes built before 1961
34%
typical town: 18%
Born here before 1914
4
the earliest in 1887
The age of the area
Around WestLake-Gladstone, within 100 km, the dated heritage reaches back to 1738
Out to 100 km from WestLake-Gladstone, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
New France before 17601
British North America 1760–18660
After Confederation 1867–191311
Wars and Depression 1914–194511
Since 1946 1946 on1
First by date comes Fort La Reine in Portage la Prairie, from 1738. Within 100 km, building dates exist for 24 places. One predates Confederation.
Around the town
Within 100 km of WestLake-Gladstone, 9 top designations
MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower in North Norfolk is the nearest, 33 km away. The oldest, Fort La Reine, dates from 1738, 54 km away. 26 places lie within 100 km.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water TowerMunicipal heritage site · 33 km away, in North Norfolk |
| Neepawa Court House / Beautiful Plains County Court BuildingNational Historic Site · 1884–1885 · 37 km away, in Neepawa |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Neepawa, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1902–1903 · 37 km away, in Neepawa |
| First Homestead in Western CanadaNational Historic Site · 1872–1873 · 51 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 53 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 54 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 54 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 55 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 55 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Camp HughesNational Historic Site · 1915 · 57 km away, in North Cypress-Langford |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Minnedosa, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 63 km away, in Minnedosa |
| Riding Mountain Park East Gate Registration ComplexNational Historic Site · 1933–1937 · 67 km away, in Rosedale |
Homes by age
WestLake-Gladstone added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2.7%, where most towns have 4.1%
Over half of the homes in WestLake-Gladstone were already standing by 1981. Only 7.3% of WestLake-Gladstone’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. In WestLake-Gladstone, 33% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
34%
Before 1961
33%
1961–80
22%
1981–2000
7.3%
2001–15
2.7%
2016–21
WestLake-GladstoneTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Before 1914, WestLake-Gladstone gave 4 lives to the record
The earliest is Gordon S. Fahrni, born in 1887. W. L. Morton closes the list, born in 1908. By Wikipedia’s reach, William Gordon Claxton leads, with 5 articles. Gladys Strum lived longest, to 99, dying in 2005.
Gordon S. Fahrni
William Gordon Claxton
Gladys Strum
W. L. Morton
18501875190019251950
WC
William Gordon Claxton1899–1967 · Canadian flying ace
GF
Gordon S. Fahrni1887–1995 · Canadian physician
Gladys Strum1906–2005 · Canadian politician
WM
W. L. Morton1908–1980 · Canadian historian
Everyone born in WestLake-Gladstone → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns its size
How WestLake-Gladstone compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,600 to 3,600 residents, by places on the registers.
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Their median is 0. 16 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
WestLake-Gladstone in brief
WestLake-Gladstone’s homes from before 1961 come to 34%, against 18% in the typical town. William Gordon Claxton (1899), Gordon S. Fahrni (1887) and Gladys Strum (1906) lead its people of the past. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about WestLake-Gladstone’s history
How many historic places does WestLake-Gladstone have on the registers?
Not inside WestLake-Gladstone. The closest is MacGregor Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower in North Norfolk, 33 km away.
How old are the homes in WestLake-Gladstone?
34% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in WestLake-Gladstone be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in WestLake-Gladstone, 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).