Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: s.yume from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Before 1961: just 7.7% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. The closest top-tier heritage is in Rhineland, 19 km from here.
Their towns number 20: North St. Boniface, Broadway-Assiniboine and South Portage first. They are 28 National Historic Sites, 10 provincial or municipal listings and 4 heritage railway stations. The registers hold 43 within 100 km.
| Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern)National Historic Site · 1889–1890 · 30 km away, in Thompson |
| Fort DufferinNational Historic Site · 1872–1874 · 57 km away, in Emerson-Franklin |
| All Saints Anglican ChurchMunicipal heritage site · 1879 · 57 km away, in Emerson-Franklin |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Emerson, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1915 · 58 km away, in Emerson-Franklin |
| St. Michael's Ukrainian Greek Orthodox ChurchNational Historic Site · 1899–1900 · 89 km away, in Stuartburn |
| Fort La ReineNational Historic Site · 1738–1739 · 90 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential SchoolNational Historic Site · 1914–1916 · 91 km away, in Long Plain 6 |
| Portage La Prairie Public BuildingNational Historic Site · 1896–1899 · 91 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 92 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Portage la Prairie, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1893–1894 · 92 km away, in Portage la Prairie |
| Riel HouseNational Historic Site · 1880–1882 · 92 km away, in Minnetonka |
| Assiniboine Park PavilionListed historical resource · 93 km away, in Old Tuxedo |
On Wikidata the municipality of Winkler dates to May 9, 1906, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation. Winkler took its legal form as a village in 1906.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Winkler, Manitoba”, revision 1379212325 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Places as far as 100 km from Winkler, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Fort La Reine, in Portage la Prairie, goes back furthest, to 1738. The bars count 38 dated places within 100 km. 3 are older than 1867.
More than half of Winkler’s housing predates 2001. 35% of Winkler’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Winkler 23% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 16,000 to 16,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides, Almonte, Chutes-Montmorency, Evergreen, Mercier and Saint-Sauveur. The middle one has 0. 10 of them have none.
Counted by age, only 7.7% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
Inside Winkler, none so far. At 30 km, Miami Railway Station (Canadian Northern) in Thompson is the nearest, with the top designation.
7.7% predate 1961, where 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).