Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.514 heritage places lie within 10 km of Forest Lawn
From Forest Lawn, look 5.4 km away, to Downtown East Village, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Homes from before 1961 make up 30% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town.
The registers find 14 places within 10 km of Forest Lawn
Nearest comes Fort Calgary, 5.1 km off, in Downtown East Village. They stand in 6 towns, Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Downtown East Village among them. Among them are 8 National Historic Sites and 6 provincial or municipal listings.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 5.1 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 5.9 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 5.9 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 6.1 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 6.3 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 6.4 km away, in Mission |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 6.4 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 6.5 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 6.5 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 6.7 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 6.9 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 7.3 km away, in Beltline |
Most of what stands within 10 km of Forest Lawn dates from the decades after Confederation
The area, not the town: places within 10 km of Forest Lawn, dated by the first construction year on their records.
11 places within 10 km carry a construction date. Fort Calgary, in Downtown East Village, goes back furthest, to 1875.
Little new building in Forest Lawn: 2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Forest Lawn’s largest group of homes, 50%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Few of Forest Lawn’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 2.7%, the norm 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 12% of Forest Lawn’s, against 23% 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.
Forest Lawn and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Lawn | 7,513 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Albert Park/Radisson Heights | 8,433 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dover | 10,440 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forest Heights | 6,120 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Erin Woods | 7,245 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Penbrooke Meadows | 10,001 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Marlborough | 8,932 | 0 | 0 | — |
Forest Lawn in brief
Older stock first: 30% of homes in Forest Lawn were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Forest Lawn’s history
How many historic places does Forest Lawn have on the registers?
Forest Lawn has none of its own; Fort Calgary, in Downtown East Village, the closest at 5.1 km, holds the highest designation.
How old are the homes in Forest Lawn?
Before 1961: 30% of its homes; 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).