Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainAround Unity, 7 historic places within 100 km
Battleford, 66 km from Unity, has the nearest place of the highest rank. For the municipality itself, Wikidata has 1909, which can be an incorporation or a merger rather than a founding.
4 places of the highest rank within 100 km of Unity
The earliest date is Fort Battleford’s, 1876, 66 km away. 7 places lie within 100 km. They are 4 National Historic Sites, 2 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station.
The 7 nearest, within 100 km
| Old Government House / Saint-Charles ScholasticateNational Historic Site · 1878–1880 · 65 km away, in Battleford |
| Battleford Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1908–1910 · 66 km away, in Battleford |
| Fort BattlefordNational Historic Site · 1876–1877 · 66 km away, in Battleford |
| Canadian National Railways Station, North Battleford, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1956–1957 · 69 km away, in North Battleford |
| Paradise Valley Alberta Wheat Pool Grain ElevatorProvincial historic resource · 90 km away, in Special Area No. 4 |
| Biggar railway stationHeritage Railway Station of Canada · 1910 · 91 km away, in Biggar |
| Addison Sod HouseNational Historic Site · 1909–1912 · 92 km away, in Kindersley No. 290 |
The places within 100 km of Unity lean to the decades after Confederation
Out to 100 km from Unity, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
The oldest is Fort Battleford in Battleford, from 1876. Within 100 km, building dates exist for 6 places.
Unity added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2.4%, where most towns have 4.1%
24% of Unity’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. More of Unity’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 36%. Half of the homes standing in Unity today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Unity compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,500 to 2,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Lunenburg, Cap-Chat and Sexsmith have more. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have none.
Unity in brief
In Unity, 24% of homes were built before 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
- 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. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
Questions about Unity’s history
How many historic places does Unity have on the registers?
Unity has none of its own; Old Government House / Saint-Charles Scholasticate, in Battleford, the closest at 65 km, holds the highest designation.
When did Unity become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Unity is 1909, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Unity?
The 2021 Census dates 24% 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).