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History of Souris · Canada’s heritage registers
Souris: 1 historic place on Canada’s heritage registers
Souris East Lighthouse, from 1881, is Souris’s designated heritage place. 6 further listings on provincial or municipal registers are known only through Wikidata, so they have no page of their own.
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How it began
Souris’s beginnings, from 1727
The founding of Souris came in 1727. It has been 299 years since then. In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Souris dates from 1740; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Souris: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Souris’s area holds one top-tier place within 50 km
“Jean-Pierre Roma at Three Rivers, P. E. I.”, 31 km off, is the oldest: 1732. They stand in 3 towns, Three Rivers, Morell and Murray River, Part 1 among them. At 29 km, Panmure Head Lighthouse in Three Rivers is the closest.
Cape Bear LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1881 · 42 km away, in Murray River, Part 1
Homes by age
Souris added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2.1%, where most towns have 4.1%
More of Souris’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000 than in any other period: 31%. 29% of Souris’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Souris built little from 2001 to 2015: 8.3% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
29%
Before 1961
30%
1961–80
31%
1981–2000
8.3%
2001–15
2.1%
2016–21
SourisTypical 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
Natives of Souris from 1879 to 1911
Best known is Willibald Joseph MacDonald, with articles in 4 Wikipedia languages. Counting only births before 1914, there are 3. Melvin McQuaid reached 90, the longest life here, ending in 2001.
Rena Maude McLean
Willibald Joseph MacDonald
Melvin McQuaid
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Willibald Joseph MacDonald1897–1977 · Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward Island
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Melvin McQuaid1911–2001 · Canadian politician
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Rena Maude McLean1879–1918 · Canadian nurse died 1918
Everyone born in Souris → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Housing in Souris includes 29% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 1 historic place. Willibald Joseph MacDonald (1897), Melvin McQuaid (1911) and Rena Maude McLean (1879) are the town’s people of the past on the record.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
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The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
Questions about Souris’s history
How many historic places does Souris have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Souris.
What is the oldest building in Souris?
By its record, Souris East Lighthouse, from 1881 (Designated heritage place).
How old are the homes in Souris?
Before 1961: 29% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Souris be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 6 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.
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