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Esterhazy Flour Mill · Photo: Susan Drader · Public domainFew towns have as much for their size as Esterhazy: 4 for every 10,000 residents, more than 93% of Canadian towns. The one entry is Esterhazy Flour Mill (1904), a national historic site.
On the open record, Esterhazy as a municipality goes back to 1903, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Esterhazy takes its name from Pál Oszkár Esterházy, american clerk.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
4 places lie within 100 km. By age, R. D. McNaughton Building leads, from 1882, at 64 km. For the highest designation, go 66 km to Inglis Grain Elevators.
| Canadian National Railways Station, Melville, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 59 km away, in Melville |
| R. D. McNaughton BuildingMunicipal heritage property · 1882 · 64 km away, in Moosomin |
| Inglis Grain ElevatorsNational Historic Site · 1922–1942 · 66 km away, in Riding Mountain West |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Roblin, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1906–1907 · 81 km away, in Roblin |
Only 14% of Esterhazy’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. 21% of Esterhazy’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 3.3% of Esterhazy’s, about the typical 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.
Towns of 2,500 to 2,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
The 2021 Census dates 21% of Esterhazy’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, Esterhazy Flour Mill among them. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its one place was designated in 2009.
Esterhazy Flour Mill.
Esterhazy Flour Mill — its record dates it to 1904 (National Historic Site).
21% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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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).
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