Photo: Wtshymanski · Public domain1910: the date of Nipawin as a municipality
The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Nipawin has 29%. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 2.9% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
The biggest share of Nipawin’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 42%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 7.6% of Nipawin’s, against 15% in the typical town. Half of the homes standing in Nipawin today were built before 1981. Building from 1981 to 2000 gave Nipawin 19% of its homes, near the usual 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Nipawin compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,000 to 5,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Carbonear and Saint-Germain-de-Grantham have more. The typical town its size has 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Nipawin and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nipawin | 5,033 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Torch River No. 488 | 1,277 | 0 | 0 | — |
Nipawin in brief
Older stock first: 29% of homes in Nipawin were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- 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.
Questions about Nipawin’s history
When did Nipawin become a municipality?
Wikidata gives 1910 for Nipawin, which may mark incorporation or an amalgamation rather than a founding.
How old are the homes in Nipawin?
29% 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).