Photo: Awmcphee · CC BY-SA 3.039% of Maple Creek’s homes were built before 1961
Maple Creek has 2.2 times what the typical town has (18%). The registers count 7 places within 100 km of Maple Creek; the closest, Fort Walsh, is 47 km away. The nearest town with a top designation is Maple Creek No. 111, 16 km away. Wikidata gives 1882 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged.
Within 100 km of Maple Creek, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
No place near Maple Creek is close: these lie up to 100 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
The chart rests on 7 dated places within 100 km. One is older than 1867. Suffield Tipi Rings, in Cypress County, is the oldest (1430).
7 designated places lie within 100 km of Maple Creek
The mix: 6 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station. At 47 km, Fort Walsh in Maple Creek No. 111 is the closest. Oldest of them is Suffield Tipi Rings (1430), 96 km off.
The 7 nearest, within 100 km
| Fort WalshNational Historic Site · 1875–1881 · 47 km away, in Maple Creek No. 111 |
| Cypress Hills MassacreNational Historic Site · 1873 · 49 km away, in Maple Creek No. 111 |
| Medalta PotteriesNational Historic Site · 1912–1914 · 85 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| Medicine Hat Clay IndustriesNational Historic Site · 1909–1947 · 85 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Medicine Hat, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1906–1907 · 86 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ChurchNational Historic Site · 1912–1915 · 87 km away, in Medicine Hat |
| Suffield Tipi RingsNational Historic Site · 1430–1431 · 96 km away, in Cypress County |
New homes are rare in Maple Creek: 1% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Maple Creek has an unusual share of homes built from 1961 to 1980: 37%, where most towns have 27%. Few of Maple Creek’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 7.6%, the norm 15%. Only 15% of Maple Creek’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Maple Creek and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Creek | 2,354 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Maple Creek No. 111 | 1,179 | 2 | 2 | 1873 |
Maple Creek in brief
In Maple Creek, 39% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Roy Manzer (1896) is its person of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Maple Creek’s history
How many historic places does Maple Creek have on the registers?
None inside Maple Creek yet. The nearest, Fort Walsh, carries the highest designation, 47 km away in Maple Creek No. 111.
When did Maple Creek become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Maple Creek is 1882, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Maple Creek?
39% 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).