Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
S.S. Klondike · Photo: Sloan G. / Gareth Sloan · CC BY-SA 2.0On the list: a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a provincial or municipal listing. Of the dated places, Whitehorse White Pass and Yukon Route Railway Depot is the oldest, from 1905. Per resident Whitehorse has more than 78% of Canadian towns: 0.9 for every 10,000 people. Before 1961: just 8.1% of the homes, where most towns have 18%.
Photos show 2 of the places Whitehorse’s registers name; the others show their record instead. Among them: S.S. Klondike and Whitehorse White Pass and Yukon Route Railway Depot.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
By date: 10 old photographs of the town. Each dot on the line is a picture; tap one to open it full screen.
1894–1900
c. 1898
1898–1900
c. 1899
1903–1906
c. 1905
c. 1906
1905–1915
c. 1914
1940sPublic domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The date Wikidata keeps for Whitehorse is 1898; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open. Whitehorse takes its name from White Horse Rapids, rapids in Yukon, Canada. By 1905 the place had a station: Whitehorse White Pass and Yukon Route Railway Depot.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Count back from today and half of Whitehorse’s homes are older than 2001. Whitehorse’s largest group of homes, 30%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 24% of Whitehorse’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.
Towns of 33,400 to 34,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Val-d'Or and Sainte-Marie. The typical town its size has 1. 6 of them have nothing on the registers.
Whitehorse has 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, among them S.S. Klondike. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Most of its homes are post-1960: only 8.1% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, its places were designated between 1967 and 1992.
It is S.S. Klondike.
Whitehorse White Pass and Yukon Route Railway Depot (Municipal historic site): the first construction date on its record is 1905.
8.1% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 9 further listings in Whitehorse show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).
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