How it began
Back to 1908: Outlook’s first record
The first railway station on record, Outlook station, opened in 1909. Wikidata holds 1908 as the start of the municipality of Outlook, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.
Outlook station · Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Outlook · Canada’s heritage registers
The registers record 1 historic place in Outlook
For its size Outlook is rich ground: 3.8 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 93% of Canadian towns. It is Outlook station, a municipal heritage property begun in 1909.
Historic places
1
3.8 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1909
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
21%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Outlook’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Outlook: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
LocalAround the town
Near Outlook, within 100 km: 5 places of national rank
The radius of 100 km holds 23. Oldest of them is Nutana Pioneer Cemetery (1884), 73 km off. Between them, 13 towns share them, mainly Central Business District, Buena Vista and Haultain.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| VIA Rail (Union) Station, Saskatoon, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1964–1965 · 72 km away, in South West Industrial |
| Nutana Pioneer CemeteryMunicipal heritage property · 1884 · 73 km away, in Avalon |
| Bowerman HouseMunicipal heritage property · 1907 · 74 km away, in South West Industrial |
| Gustin HouseMunicipal heritage property · 1920 · 75 km away, in Buena Vista |
| Marr ResidenceMunicipal heritage property · 1884 · 75 km away, in Buena Vista |
| Saskatoon Electrical System SubstationMunicipal heritage property · 75 km away, in Haultain |
| Arrand BlockMunicipal heritage property · 1912 · 75 km away, in Buena Vista |
| Broadway TheatreMunicipal heritage property · 1946 · 75 km away, in Haultain |
| Former Fire Hall No. 3Municipal heritage property · 1911 · 75 km away, in Haultain |
| Landa ResidenceMunicipal heritage property · 1913 · 76 km away, in Pleasant Hill |
| Land Titles BuildingProvincial heritage property · 1910 · 76 km away, in Central Business District |
| Hutchinson BuildingMunicipal heritage property · 1923 · 76 km away, in Central Business District |
Homes by age
The biggest share of Outlook’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 44%
Half of the homes standing in Outlook today were built before 1981. 21% of Outlook’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. From 2016 on, Outlook built only 3% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%.
21%
Before 1961
44%
1961–80
20%
1981–2000
12%
2001–15
3%
2016–21
OutlookTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Outlook has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,600 to 2,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Outlook1
Ahead of it: Sainte-Croix, Grand Manan and Waterville. The middle one has 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
In brief
Outlook in brief
In Outlook, 21% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- 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. 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.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
Questions about Outlook’s history
How many historic places does Outlook have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Outlook.
What is the oldest building in Outlook?
Outlook station — its record dates it to 1909 (Municipal heritage property).
How old are the homes in Outlook?
The 2021 Census dates 21% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).