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History of Rosthern · Canada’s heritage registers

Rosthern’s surroundings: 5 historic places within 25 km

Older housing stands out in Rosthern: 31% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Beardy's 97 and Okemasis 96, 19 km off.

Historic places within 25 km

4 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

8 km

Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm

Homes built before 1961

31%

typical town: 18%

Born here before 1914

the earliest in 1906

Around the town

5 historic places within 25 km of Rosthern

Among them are 4 National Historic Sites and a provincial or municipal listing. Nearest comes Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm, 8 km off, in Rosthern No. 403. Rosthern No. 403, Aberdeen No. 373 and Duck Lake No. 463 hold most of them, among 5 towns.

The 5 nearest, within 25 km

Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove FarmNational Historic Site · 1898–1929 · 8 km away, in Rosthern No. 403

Battle of Tourond's Coulee / Fish CreekNational Historic Site · 1885 · 17 km away, in Aberdeen No. 373

All Saints Anglican ChurchMunicipal heritage property · 1896 · 18 km away, in Duck Lake No. 463

BatocheNational Historic Site · 1870–1931 · 18 km away, in St. Louis No. 431

Battle of Duck LakeNational Historic Site · 1885 · 18 km away, in Beardy's 97 and Okemasis 96

How it began

The dates behind Rosthern, from 1893

The municipality of Rosthern has the date 1893 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation. Rosthern took its legal form as a town in 1903.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Rosthern”, revision 1382444053 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

Homes by age

Rosthern added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.6%, where most towns have 4.1%

Count back from today and half of Rosthern’s homes are older than 1981. Rosthern’s largest group of homes, 36%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 19% of Rosthern’s, about the typical 23%.

31%

Before 1961

36%

1961–80

19%

1981–2000

13%

2001–15

1.6%

2016–21

RosthernTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Rosthern and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Highest	Oldest
Rosthern	1,926	0	0	—
Beardy's 97 and Okemasis 96	1,357	1	1	1885

In brief

Rosthern in brief

The pre-1961 share of Rosthern’s homes is 31%, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: one person of its past, Ernest McNab (1906).

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
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.

Questions about Rosthern’s history

How many historic places does Rosthern have on the registers?

Rosthern has none of its own; Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm, in Rosthern No. 403, the closest at 8 km, holds the highest designation.

How old are the homes in Rosthern?

31% 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).