Before 1961: 55% of the homes in Elbow Park
For Elbow Park, that is 3.2 times the typical town’s share, 18%. 14 places on the heritage registers lie within 5 km of Elbow Park, the nearest St. Mary's Parish Hall, 2 km away. The closest top-tier heritage is in Beltline, 2.2 km from here.
Around Elbow Park, within 5 km, the dated heritage reaches back to 1875
Each historic place within 5 km of Elbow Park, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
First by date comes Fort Calgary in Downtown East Village, from 1875. Dated places within 5 km: 11.
14 places on Canada’s registers lie 5 km or less from Elbow Park
Of 8 top designations nearby, Beaulieu is the closest, at 2.1 km. They are 8 National Historic Sites and 6 provincial or municipal listings. Fort Calgary, 3.6 km off, is the oldest: 1875.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 2 km away, in Mission |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 2.1 km away, in Beltline |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 2.3 km away, in Beltline |
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 2.8 km away, in Beltline |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 2.9 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 2.9 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 3 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 3 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 3.1 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 3.1 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 3.2 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 3.6 km away, in Downtown East Village |
Elbow Park is still building: 6.2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
More than half of Elbow Park’s housing predates 1961. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 8.8% of Elbow Park’s, against 27% in the typical town. Only 9.8% of Elbow Park’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 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 Elbow Park compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,100 to 4,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Only L'Ange-Gardien and Pioneer Tower West have more. Their median is 0. For 14, the registers list nothing.
Elbow Park and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elbow Park | 4,120 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Upper Mount Royal | 2,758 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Erlton | 3,221 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mission | 6,329 | 1 | 0 | 1905 |
| Altadore | 7,675 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lower Mount Royal | 3,136 | 0 | 0 | — |
| South Calgary | 4,412 | 0 | 0 | — |
Elbow Park in brief
The pre-1961 share of Elbow Park’s homes is 55%, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- 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. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
Questions about Elbow Park’s history
How many historic places does Elbow Park have on the registers?
Not inside Elbow Park. The closest is St. Mary's Parish Hall in Mission, 2 km away.
How old are the homes in Elbow Park?
55% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Elbow Park be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Elbow Park shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).