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How it began
Biggar’s early dates, from 1907
The first railway station on record, Biggar railway station, opened in 1910. Wikidata gives the municipality of Biggar the date 1907, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. On paper, Biggar became a village in 1909 and a town in 1911.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
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.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Biggar: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
76 km from Biggar: Old Government House / Saint-Charles Scholasticate, the nearest on the registers
Among them are 17 provincial or municipal listings, 9 National Historic Sites and 2 heritage railway stations. Fort Battleford, 77 km off, is the oldest: 1876. Within 100 km there are 28 in all.
Fairbanks-Morse WarehouseMunicipal heritage property · 1911 · 90 km away, in Central Business District
Homes by age
Only 1.6% of Biggar’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Biggar built little from 2001 to 2015: 5.3% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Only 12% of Biggar’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. The busiest building years in Biggar were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 45% of today’s homes.
36%
Before 1961
45%
1961–80
12%
1981–2000
5.3%
2001–15
1.6%
2016–21
BiggarTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
Biggar in brief
Older stock first: 36% of homes in Biggar were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
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Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
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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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
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The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
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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. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
Questions about Biggar’s history
How old are the homes in Biggar?
Before 1961: 36% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Biggar have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Biggar.
What is the oldest building in Biggar?
Biggar railway station (Heritage Railway Station of Canada): the first construction date on its record is 1910.
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.
1900–1909
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