Photo: Kay Röllig · CC BY 3.014 heritage places lie within 10 km of Dover
Only 5.2% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. Look 5.3 km away, to Downtown East Village, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
Dover’s surroundings: 14 historic places within 10 km
The first one out is Fort Calgary, 5 km away in Downtown East Village. Between them, 6 towns share them, mainly Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Downtown East Village. They are 8 National Historic Sites and 6 provincial or municipal listings.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 5 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 5.7 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 5.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 5.9 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 5.9 km away, in Mission |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 6.1 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 6.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 6.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 6.3 km away, in Beltline |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 6.4 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 6.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 6.9 km away, in Beltline |
Around Dover, within 10 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
Within 10 km of Dover but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
11 dated places within 10 km make up the record. Fort Calgary, in Downtown East Village, is the oldest (1875).
New homes are rare in Dover: 0.2% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 66% of Dover’s, against 27% in the typical town. Only 9.4% of Dover’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Few of Dover’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 18%, the norm 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Dover compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,400 to 10,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Coal Harbour and Corman Park No. 344 have more. Their median is 0. 14 of them have none.
Dover and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover | 10,440 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Erin Woods | 7,245 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forest Lawn | 7,513 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Albert Park/Radisson Heights | 8,433 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forest Heights | 6,120 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Penbrooke Meadows | 10,001 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Inglewood | 4,380 | 0 | 0 | — |
Dover in brief
Few of its homes are old, 5.2% before 1961, 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Dover’s history
How many historic places does Dover have on the registers?
None in Dover itself. The closest is Fort Calgary in Downtown East Village, 5 km away, a place of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Dover?
5.2% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).