Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0History around Souris: 5 designated places within 50 km
The nearest town to Souris with a top designation is Three Rivers, 31 km away. Older housing stands out: 30% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Within 50 km of Souris: 5 places on the registers
They are 3 heritage lighthouses, a provincial or municipal listing and a National Historic Site. Between them, 4 towns share them, mainly Three Rivers, Souris and Morell. Oldest of them is “Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers, P. E. I.” (1732), 29 km off.
The 5 nearest, within 50 km
| Souris East LighthouseDesignated heritage place · 1881 · 10 km away, in Souris |
| Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers, P. E. I.National Historic Site · 1732–1733 · 29 km away, in Three Rivers |
| Panmure Head LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1853 · 30 km away, in Three Rivers |
| St. Peters Harbour LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1878 · 31 km away, in Morell |
| Cape Bear LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1881 · 45 km away, in Murray River, Part 1 |
Within 50 km of Souris, the decades after Confederation left the most
Out to 50 km from Souris, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
Dated places within 50 km: 5. Before Confederation: 2. The oldest is “Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers, P. E. I.” in Three Rivers, from 1732.
30% of Souris’s homes were built before 1961
Only 20% of Souris’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 29% of Souris’s, against 23% in the typical town. New building in Souris runs at the usual pace: 4% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Souris and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Souris | 1,981 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Souris | 1,285 | 1 | 0 | 1881 |
Souris in brief
Counted by age, 30% of Souris’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, one person of its past, Thomas Joseph Kickham (1901).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Souris’s history
How many historic places does Souris have on the registers?
Not inside Souris. The closest is Souris East Lighthouse in Souris, 10 km away.
How old are the homes in Souris?
The 2021 Census dates 30% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Souris be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 4 further listings in Souris show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).