Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.0Before 1961: 41% of the homes in Shaunavon
Shaunavon’s share is 2.4 times the typical 18%. One place on the heritage registers lies within 100 km of Shaunavon: Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 83 km away. For the highest designations, the closest town is Maple Creek No. 111, 83 km off. For the municipality itself, Wikidata has 1913, which can be an incorporation or a merger rather than a founding.
Leave Shaunavon and the first historic place is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Swift Current, Saskatchewan”, 83 km away
All told, one place is within 100 km.
The nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Swift Current, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1913 · 83 km away, in Swift Current |
Shaunavon added no homes from 2016 to 2021, where most towns have 4.1%
Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 34% of Shaunavon’s, against 27% in the typical town. Only 8.8% of Shaunavon’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Shaunavon built little from 1981 to 2000: 14% of its homes, where most towns have 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Shaunavon in brief
Older stock first: 41% of homes in Shaunavon were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- 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.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
Questions about Shaunavon’s history
How many historic places does Shaunavon have on the registers?
Shaunavon has none of its own yet. Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in Swift Current, is the nearest, 83 km away.
When did Shaunavon become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Shaunavon to 1913. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Shaunavon?
41% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).