Photo: Kevstan · CC BY-SA 4.0Macklin and its setting: 2 historic places within 100 km
Wikidata dates the municipality to 1908, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger. Before 1961: 21% of the homes, about the usual 18%.
49 km from Macklin: Paradise Valley Alberta Wheat Pool Grain Elevator, the nearest on the registers
They stand in 2 towns, Special Area No. 4 and Wainwright among them. The radius of 100 km holds 2.
The 2 nearest, within 100 km
| Paradise Valley Alberta Wheat Pool Grain ElevatorProvincial historic resource · 49 km away, in Special Area No. 4 |
| Wainwright HotelProvincial historic resource · 83 km away, in Wainwright |
Nothing new from 2016 to 2021 in Macklin, against 4.1% elsewhere
The busiest building years in Macklin were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 34% of today’s homes. Half of the homes standing in Macklin today were built before 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Macklin 31% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Macklin in brief
Housing in Macklin includes 21% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, its past has one life on the record, Agnes Martin (1912).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- 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. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Questions about Macklin’s history
How many historic places does Macklin have on the registers?
None inside Macklin yet. The nearest is Paradise Valley Alberta Wheat Pool Grain Elevator, 49 km away in Special Area No. 4.
When did Macklin become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Macklin to 1908. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Macklin?
21% 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).