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1historic place on the registers

History of Foam Lake · Canada’s heritage registers

Canada’s registers list 1 historic place in Foam Lake

The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Foam Lake has 32%. St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, from 1911, is the town’s municipal heritage property.

1911oldest building

Historic places

Highest designations

National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings

Provincial and local listings

provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article

Oldest building

1911

the first construction date on its record

Homes built before 1961

32%

typical town: 18%

How it began

Foam Lake since 1882: its early dates

It was Joshua Milligan who founded Foam Lake, in 1882. That makes it 144 years old. Foam Lake took its legal form as a town in 1924.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Foam Lake”, revision 1378783433 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

The map

Where Foam Lake’s history is

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

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.

Provincial and local listings

One local listing in Foam Lake

Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.

Municipal heritage property · 1911St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church

Around the town

The heritage closest to Foam Lake: “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Wynyard, Saskatchewan”, at 47 km

Its one place of national rank is Fort Qu'Appelle, at 98 km. Their towns number 3: Fort Qu'Appelle, Wynyard and Melville first. All told, 4 places are within 100 km.

The 4 nearest, within 100 km

Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Wynyard, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1909–1910 · 47 km away, in Wynyard

Canadian National Railways Station, Melville, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 94 km away, in Melville

Fort Qu'AppelleNational Historic Site · 1864–1865 · 98 km away, in Fort Qu'Appelle

Fort Qu'Appelle railway stationMunicipal heritage property · 1911 · 99 km away, in Fort Qu'Appelle

Homes by age

Nothing new from 2016 to 2021 in Foam Lake, against 4.1% elsewhere

More of Foam Lake’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 50%. Only 2.8% of Foam Lake’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Few of Foam Lake’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 15%, the norm 23%.

32%

Before 1961

50%

1961–80

15%

1981–2000

2.8%

2001–15

2016–21

Foam LakeTypical 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

Foam Lake in brief

Housing in Foam Lake includes 32% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 1 historic place.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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.
The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
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.
People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
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 Foam Lake’s history

How many historic places does Foam Lake have on the registers?

1 historic place inside Foam Lake, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.

How old are the homes in Foam Lake?

32% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.

What is the oldest building in Foam Lake?

By its record, St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, from 1911 (Municipal heritage property).

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).