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Estevan, SaskatchewanPhoto: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0
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History of Estevan · Canada’s heritage registers

Estevan became a village in 1899

One place on the heritage registers lies within 100 km of Estevan: Feathertick Inn, 19 km away. Of the 2 people born in Estevan before 1914, Clifford H. Stockwell came first.

Historic places within 100 km
1
0 of the highest designation
Nearest historic place
19 km
Feathertick Inn
Homes built before 1961
25%
typical town: 18%
Born here before 1914
2
the earliest in 1897
How it began

Estevan on record since 1892

On the open record, Estevan as a municipality goes back to 1892, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. The municipality of Estevan was incorporated as a village in 1899.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Estevan”, revision 1377335429 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

Around the town

Nearest to Estevan: Feathertick Inn, 19 km away

One place lies within 100 km.

The nearest, within 100 km

Feathertick InnMunicipal heritage property · 1911 · 19 km away, in Estevan No. 5
Homes by age

Estevan added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2.4%, where most towns have 4.1%

25% of Estevan’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Estevan’s largest group of homes, 31%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Count back from today and half of Estevan’s homes are older than 1981.

25%
Before 1961
31%
1961–80
24%
1981–2000
18%
2001–15
2.4%
2016–21
EstevanTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Estevan and its neighbours

TownPeoplePlacesHighestOldest
Estevan11,39100—
Estevan No. 51,293101911
In brief

Estevan in brief

Estevan’s homes from before 1961 come to 25%, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and Paul Yuzyk (1913) and Clifford H. Stockwell (1897) are its people of the past on the record.

How to read these numbers

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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Questions about Estevan’s history

How many historic places does Estevan have on the registers?

None inside Estevan yet. The nearest is Feathertick Inn, 19 km away in Estevan No. 5.

How old are the homes in Estevan?

25% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.

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).