Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0The registers count 8 places within 50 km of Lumsden; the closest, Last Mountain House Provincial Park, is 14 km away. Look 27 km away, to McNab, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Beattie Ramsay heads a list of 3 people born in Lumsden before 1914.
On the open record, Lumsden as a municipality goes back to 1881, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Trains arrived at Lumsden in 1889.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Lumsden, Saskatchewan”, revision 1378744327 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Out to 50 km from Lumsden, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
Government House, in McNab, is the oldest (1889). The chart rests on 7 dated places within 50 km.
Between them, 5 towns share them, mainly Downtown, Longlaketon No. 219 and McNab. For the highest designations, the nearest of 2 is Government House, 27 km away. The nearest is Last Mountain House Provincial Park, 14 km away in Longlaketon No. 219.
| Last Mountain House Provincial ParkHistoric provincial park · 1986 · 14 km away, in Longlaketon No. 219 |
| Government HouseNational Historic Site · 1889–1892 · 27 km away, in McNab |
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Regina, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1914 · 28 km away, in Downtown |
| Prince Edward BuildingMunicipal heritage property · 1907 · 29 km away, in Downtown |
| Knox-Metropolitan United ChurchMunicipal heritage property · 1907 · 29 km away, in Downtown |
| Hotel SaskatchewanMunicipal heritage property · 29 km away, in Downtown |
| Albert Memorial BridgeMunicipal heritage property · 1930 · 29 km away, in Dewdney Place |
| Saskatchewan Legislative Building and GroundsNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 30 km away, in Hillsdale |
21% of Lumsden’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Lumsden has 20% of its homes from before 1961. Lumsden built little from 1981 to 2000: 18% of its homes, where most towns have 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Best known is Beattie Ramsay, with articles in 17 Wikipedia languages. Beattie Ramsay comes first, born in 1895. The line ends with Edith Fowke (1913). Illingworth Kerr lived longest, to 84, dying in 1989.
Everyone born in Lumsden → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumsden | 2,059 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lumsden No. 189 | 2,150 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Longlaketon No. 219 | 1,192 | 1 | 0 | 1986 |
| Regina Beach | 1,322 | 0 | 0 | — |
In Lumsden, 20% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beattie Ramsay (1895), Edith Fowke (1913) and Illingworth Kerr (1905) are the town’s people of the past on the record.
The registers have nothing inside Lumsden; Last Mountain House Provincial Park, in Longlaketon No. 219, is 14 km away.
20% 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).