Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan · Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 4.0Moose Jaw’s share is 2.1 times the typical 18%. The registers put 6 historic places inside its boundary, one of them of the highest rank. Among the places are 2 heritage railway stations, 2 provincial or municipal listings and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Go back to 1908 and you reach Moose Jaw Court House, the oldest of them.
Land Titles Building, dated 1910, is the oldest place pictured in Moose Jaw. Photos show 4 of the places Moose Jaw’s registers name; the others show their record instead. You can start with “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan” and Land Titles Building.
Land Titles Building
Moose Jaw City Hall
Canadian National Railway Station, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan+1See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
By date: one old photograph of the town, with the oldest view of one of its historic places. Scroll the strip and tap a picture to open it.
c. 1907
1926Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
Rail service is on record from 1919, when Moose Jaw Canadian National Railway Station opened. The date Wikidata keeps for Moose Jaw is 1903; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia 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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Here that means 2 heritage railway stations and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. They date from 1913 (D.V. Currie VC Armoury) to 1920. Each one opens its own page.
Leading by designation: Moose Jaw Court House and D.V. Currie VC Armoury. All told, 4 kinds of place appear.
Kinds read from each place’s name and the functions its register gives; a building keeps the kind it was built as.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. They date from 1910 (Land Titles Building) to 1914. Each one opens its own page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
Only 13% of Moose Jaw’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 11% of Moose Jaw’s, against 15% in the typical town. 36% of Moose Jaw’s homes date from 1961 to 1980, well above the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The first on the line is J. Gordon Ross (1891). Vaughan Grayson reached 101, the longest life here, ending in 1995. By Wikipedia’s reach, Art Linkletter leads, with 11 articles. Bus Griffiths closes the list, born in 1913.
Everyone born in Moose Jaw → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 35,900 to 37,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Sorel-Tracy has more. Their median is 0. 9 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moose Jaw | 36,337 | 6 | 1 | 1908 |
| Moose Jaw No. 161 | 1,293 | 0 | 0 | — |
The pre-1961 share of Moose Jaw’s homes is 38%, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 6 historic places, one with the highest designation, with Moose Jaw Court House first. Its rate of historic places per resident is above 84% of Canadian towns of 2,500 or more. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places.
By date, the wars and the Depression lead: 3 of 6. Among the lives from its past: Art Linkletter (1912), Vaughan Grayson (1894) and J. Gordon Ross (1891). For the rest, the list grew between 1981 and 1998.
38% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
It is Moose Jaw Court House.
Moose Jaw Court House (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1908.
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Moose Jaw shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).
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