Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.0The heritage near Aspen Woods: 10 places in a 10 km radius
Its housing is mostly newer: 0.7% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Hillhurst, 7.8 km off.
Aspen Woods’s surroundings: 10 historic places within 10 km
The oldest, Stephen Avenue, dates from 1880, 10 km away. They are spread over 5 towns, including Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Bowness. By designation: 6 National Historic Sites and 4 provincial or municipal listings.
The 10 nearest, within 10 km
| Wood's Douglas Fir Tree SanctuaryProvincial historic resource · 6 km away, in Bowness |
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 8.2 km away, in Beltline |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 8.4 km away, in Hillhurst |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 8.9 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 9.4 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 9.5 km away, in Beltline |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 9.8 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 9.9 km away, in Mission |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 9.9 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 10 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
Within 10 km of Aspen Woods, the record goes back to 1880
Each historic place within 10 km of Aspen Woods, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
7 dated places within 10 km make up the record. Stephen Avenue, in Downtown Commercial Core, goes back furthest, to 1880.
7.7% of Aspen Woods’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Only 1.5% of Aspen Woods’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Few of Aspen Woods’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 0.3%, the norm 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 90% of Aspen Woods’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.
Aspen Woods and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Woods | 9,606 | 0 | 0 | — |
| West Springs | 11,632 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Springbank Hill | 9,913 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Coach Hill | 3,383 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Patterson | 4,169 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cougar Ridge | 7,101 | 0 | 0 | — |
Aspen Woods in brief
Before 1961: just 0.7% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s 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.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
Questions about Aspen Woods’s history
How many historic places does Aspen Woods have on the registers?
None inside Aspen Woods yet. The nearest is Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary, 6 km away in Bowness.
How old are the homes in Aspen Woods?
0.7% 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).