Photo: Masterhatch · CC0Before 1914, Weyburn was the birthplace of 3 people on record
Hillsdale, 100 km from Weyburn, has the nearest place of the highest rank. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from 1894, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding.
3 Weyburn births on record from before 1914
The earliest is John Probe, born in 1900. By Wikipedia’s reach, Ralph Buxton leads, with 4 articles. Ralph Buxton closes the list, born in 1911. Of them all, Ralph Buxton lived longest: 77 years, until 1988.
Everyone born in Weyburn → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Little new building in Weyburn: 2.4% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
The busiest building years in Weyburn were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 39% of today’s homes. At 22%, Weyburn’s share of pre-1961 homes is above the typical town’s 18%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 18% of Weyburn’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Weyburn compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 11,800 to 12,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Saint-Raymond, Clearwater County, Mont-Tremblant and Morrisburg. The middle one has 0. 12 of them have none.
Weyburn and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weyburn | 11,871 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Weyburn No. 67 | 1,149 | 0 | 0 | — |
Weyburn in brief
In Weyburn, 22% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Three lives from its past stand out: Ralph Buxton (1911), John Probe (1900) and Walter McCartney (1909). Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
Questions about Weyburn’s history
When did Weyburn become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Weyburn to 1894. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Weyburn?
The 2021 Census dates 22% 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).