Photo: Kabelleger / David Gubler · CC BY-SA 4.034% of Wilkie’s homes were built before 1961
Wilkie has 2 times what the typical town has (18%). 6 places on the heritage registers lie within 100 km of Wilkie, the nearest Old Government House / Saint-Charles Scholasticate, 43 km away. The nearest town with a top designation is Battleford, 45 km away.
Around Wilkie, within 100 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
No place near Wilkie is close: these lie up to 100 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
Fort Battleford, in Battleford, is the oldest (1876). Within 100 km, 6 records give a date.
Top-ranked heritage near Wilkie: 4 places within 100 km
By designation: 4 National Historic Sites, a heritage railway station and a provincial or municipal listing. Oldest of them is Fort Battleford (1876), 45 km off. All told, 6 places are within 100 km.
The 6 nearest, within 100 km
| Old Government House / Saint-Charles ScholasticateNational Historic Site · 1878–1880 · 43 km away, in Battleford |
| Fort BattlefordNational Historic Site · 1876–1877 · 45 km away, in Battleford |
| Battleford Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1908–1910 · 45 km away, in Battleford |
| Canadian National Railways Station, North Battleford, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1956–1957 · 49 km away, in North Battleford |
| Biggar railway stationHeritage Railway Station of Canada · 1910 · 63 km away, in Biggar |
| Addison Sod HouseNational Historic Site · 1909–1912 · 90 km away, in Kindersley No. 290 |
Wilkie added no homes from 2016 to 2021, where most towns have 4.1%
Only 17% of Wilkie’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Few of Wilkie’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 5.9%, the norm 15%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 41% of Wilkie’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Wilkie in brief
Of the homes standing in Wilkie, 34% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Wilkie’s history
How many historic places does Wilkie have on the registers?
None inside Wilkie yet. The nearest, Old Government House / Saint-Charles Scholasticate, carries the highest designation, 43 km away in Battleford.
How old are the homes in Wilkie?
34% 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).