The heritage near Birch Hills: 5 places in a 50 km radius
The closest top-tier heritage to Birch Hills is in St. Louis No. 431, 29 km away. Older housing stands out: 26% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
3 places of national importance within 50 km of Birch Hills
The record reaches back to 1892 with Former Prince Albert City Hall, 33 km away. Closest of all is Keyhole Castle, in Prince Albert, 32 km off. Count to 50 km and there are 5.
The 5 nearest, within 50 km
| Keyhole CastleNational Historic Site · 1913–1914 · 32 km away, in Prince Albert |
| The John and Olive Diefenbaker MuseumNational Historic Site · 1912–1913 · 33 km away, in Prince Albert |
| Former Prince Albert City HallNational Historic Site · 1892–1894 · 33 km away, in Prince Albert |
| Prince Albert Historical MuseumMunicipal heritage property · 1911 · 33 km away, in Prince Albert |
| South Branch HouseProvincial or municipal listing · 1986 · 41 km away, in St. Louis No. 431 |
The 50 km around Birch Hills keep buildings from as early as 1892
Reaching 50 km out from Birch Hills: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
5 places within 50 km carry a construction date. First by date comes Former Prince Albert City Hall in Prince Albert, from 1892.
Little new building in Birch Hills: 2.2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
More than half of Birch Hills’s housing predates 1981. Birch Hills’s largest group of homes, 47%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 13% of Birch Hills’s, against 23% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Birch Hills in brief
In Birch Hills, 26% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, one person of its past, Tommy Thomson (1895).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
Questions about Birch Hills’s history
How many historic places does Birch Hills have on the registers?
Nothing inside Birch Hills; Keyhole Castle in Prince Albert, 32 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Birch Hills?
26% 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).