Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0In a 10 km circle around Currie Barracks: 14 places on the registers
The closest top-tier heritage to Currie Barracks is in Beltline, 5.2 km away. One more place on a provincial or local list is counted from Wikidata without a page.
5 km from Currie Barracks: Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall, the nearest on the registers
The registers hold 14 within 10 km. Fort Calgary, 7.3 km off, is the oldest: 1875. Among them are 8 National Historic Sites and 6 provincial or municipal listings.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 5 km away, in Beltline |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 5.1 km away, in Beltline |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 5.6 km away, in Mission |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 5.6 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 6.1 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 6.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 6.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 6.3 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 6.6 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 6.6 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 6.7 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 6.8 km away, in Hillhurst |
Most of what stands within 10 km of Currie Barracks dates from the decades after Confederation
Around Currie Barracks, not inside it: the places within 10 km, by the first construction date on record.
The earliest is Fort Calgary in Downtown East Village, begun in 1875. 11 places within 10 km have a date.
New homes stand out in Currie Barracks: 10% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
Currie Barracks built little from 1981 to 2000: 18% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. 39% of Currie Barracks’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Before 1961: just 14% of Currie Barracks’s homes, where most towns have 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Currie Barracks compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,300 to 7,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Portage la Prairie, Chandler and Saint-Jude have more. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have none.
Currie Barracks and its neighbours
Currie Barracks in brief
Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 14%, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
Questions about Currie Barracks’s history
How many historic places does Currie Barracks have on the registers?
Nothing inside Currie Barracks; Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall in Beltline, 5 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Currie Barracks?
14% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Currie Barracks be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Currie Barracks is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).