Photo: Greg N · CC BY-SA 3.0Windsor Park keeps its older homes: 39% from before 1961
For Windsor Park, that is 2.2 times the typical town’s share, 18%. The registers count 6 places within 5 km of Windsor Park; the closest, St. Vital Historical Society, is 2.6 km away. Look 3.8 km away, to Central St. Boniface, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
Within 5 km of Windsor Park, the record goes back to 1846
The area, not the town: places within 5 km of Windsor Park, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Grey Nuns' Convent, in Central St. Boniface, goes back furthest, to 1846. 5 places within 5 km carry a construction date. One goes back before 1867.
2.6 km from Windsor Park: St. Vital Historical Society, the nearest on the registers
By designation: 4 National Historic Sites and 2 provincial or municipal listings. For the highest designations, the nearest of 4 is Maison Gabrielle-Roy, 3.9 km away. Central St. Boniface, Glenwood and North St. Boniface hold most of them, among 4 towns.
The 6 nearest, within 5 km
| St. Vital Historical SocietyListed historical resource · 1994 · 2.6 km away, in Glenwood |
| Maison Gabrielle-RoyNational Historic Site · 1905–1906 · 3.9 km away, in Central St. Boniface |
| Grey Nuns' ConventNational Historic Site · 1846–1852 · 4.3 km away, in Central St. Boniface |
| Saint Boniface CathedralListed historical resource · 1972 · 4.4 km away, in Central St. Boniface |
| St. Boniface City HallNational Historic Site · 1905–1906 · 4.5 km away, in North St. Boniface |
| The ForksNational Historic Site · 4.7 km away, in South Portage |
Little new building in Windsor Park: 1.4% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Only 5% of Windsor Park’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 5.1% of Windsor Park’s, against 23% in the typical town. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 48% of Windsor Park’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Windsor Park compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 12,400 to 12,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Carignan, Rothesay and Yonge-Eglinton. The typical town its size has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
Windsor Park and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Park | 12,523 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Southdale | 8,210 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Niakwa Place | 3,461 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Alpine Place | 3,721 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Glenwood | 6,617 | 1 | 0 | 1994 |
| St. George | 4,254 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Norwood East | 3,881 | 0 | 0 | — |
Windsor Park in brief
Counted by age, 39% of Windsor Park’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
Questions about Windsor Park’s history
How many historic places does Windsor Park have on the registers?
Inside Windsor Park, none so far; St. Vital Historical Society, 2.6 km away in Glenwood, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Windsor Park?
39% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).