National Historic SiteÎle-à-la-Crosse
Photo: George Back · Public domain1historic place on the registers
History of Île-à-la-Crosse · Canada’s heritage registers
Île-à-la-Crosse’s 1 historic place is a top designation
Wikidata dates the municipality to 1776, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger. Homes from before 1961 are 6.7% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town.
Historic places
1
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Homes built before 1961
6.7%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Île-à-la-Crosse’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
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. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
Highest designations
One place in Île-à-la-Crosse with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Homes by age
Most of Île-à-la-Crosse’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 42%
38% of Île-à-la-Crosse’s homes date from 1981 to 2000, well above the typical 23%. From 2016 on, Île-à-la-Crosse built 5.6% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%. Île-à-la-Crosse built little from 2001 to 2015: 8.9% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
6.7%
Before 1961
42%
1961–80
38%
1981–2000
8.9%
2001–15
5.6%
2016–21
Île-à-la-CrosseTypical 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
Île-à-la-Crosse in brief
Inside Île-à-la-Crosse there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, led by Île-à-la-Crosse. Counted by age, only 6.7% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its past has lives on the record such as Louis Riel, Sr. (1817) and Catherine Mulaire (1843); and its designation dates from 1954.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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. 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. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
Questions about Île-à-la-Crosse’s history
Which places in Île-à-la-Crosse have the highest designation?
It is Île-à-la-Crosse.
How old are the homes in Île-à-la-Crosse?
The 2021 Census dates 6.7% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).