Canadian National Railway/VIA Rail Station, Sioux Lookout, Ontario · Photo: Bobbybonez · CC BY-SA 3.0

1historic place on the registers

History of Sioux Lookout · Canada’s heritage registers

1 historic place on the heritage registers in Sioux Lookout

Sioux Lookout’s one place is Canadian National Railway/VIA Rail Station, Sioux Lookout, Ontario, a heritage railway station begun in 1911. Relative to its size Sioux Lookout has 1.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 84% of Canadian towns.

1911oldest building

Historic places

1.6 per 10,000 residents

Highest designations

National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings

Other federal designations

Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses

Oldest building

1911

the first construction date on its record

Homes built before 1961

24%

typical town: 18%

How it began

Milestones of Sioux Lookout since 1912

For the municipality of Sioux Lookout itself, Wikidata records 1912, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger. Rail service is on record from 1913, when Sioux Lookout railway station opened.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where Sioux Lookout’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

Other federal designations

Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.

The 1, by tier

1 Other federal designations

Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.

Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.

Other federal designations

Federal heritage in Sioux Lookout: one more place

Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.

Heritage Railway Station · 1911–1912Canadian National Railway/VIA Rail Station, Sioux Lookout, OntarioSouth of Front St. (at 4th Ave.)Photo: Bobbybonez · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file

Homes by age

Old houses stand out in Sioux Lookout: 24% predate 1961, where most towns have 18%

The busiest building years in Sioux Lookout were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 31% of today’s homes. New building is strong in Sioux Lookout: 5.8% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. Half of the homes standing in Sioux Lookout today were built before 2001.

24%

Before 1961

26%

1961–80

31%

1981–2000

14%

2001–15

5.8%

2016–21

Sioux LookoutTypical 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

Sioux Lookout has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size

Towns of 6,100 to 6,100 residents, by places on the registers.

Haultain3

Sainte-Anne-des-Monts3

Sioux Lookout1

Alberta Avenue0

Capitol Hill0

Castleridge0

Central Business Dis0

Only Haultain and Sainte-Anne-des-Monts have more. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.

In brief

Sioux Lookout in brief

Housing in Sioux Lookout includes 24% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: Walter Assef (1913) is its person of the past on the record; and its one place was designated in 1994.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
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.
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.
The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.

Questions about Sioux Lookout’s history

How many historic places does Sioux Lookout have on the registers?

Inside Sioux Lookout: 1 historic place.

What is the oldest building in Sioux Lookout?

Canadian National Railway/VIA Rail Station, Sioux Lookout, Ontario — its record dates it to 1911 (Heritage Railway Station).

How old are the homes in Sioux Lookout?

Before 1961: 24% of its homes; 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).