Hamptons and its setting: 15 historic places within 25 km
Only 0% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. Heritage of the first rank begins 11 km away, in Hillhurst.
Within 25 km of Hamptons, 8 top designations
They belong to 7 towns, chiefly Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Downtown East Village. Closest of all is Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary, in Bowness, 7.9 km off. The radius of 25 km holds 15.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Wood's Douglas Fir Tree SanctuaryProvincial historic resource · 7.9 km away, in Bowness |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 10 km away, in Hillhurst |
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 12 km away, in Beltline |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 12 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 12 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 13 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 13 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 13 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 13 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 13 km away, in Beltline |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 13 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 13 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
Within 25 km of Hamptons, the record goes back to 1875
Out to 25 km from Hamptons, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
Oldest of all: Fort Calgary, Downtown East Village, 1875. 11 dated places within 25 km make up the record.
New homes are rare in Hamptons: 0.4% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
78% of Hamptons’s homes date from 1981 to 2000, well above the typical 23%. Hamptons built little from 1961 to 1980: 0% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. More than half of Hamptons’s housing predates 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Hamptons 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 nothing on the registers.
Hamptons and its neighbours
Hamptons in brief
Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 0%, 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
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Hamptons’s history
How many historic places does Hamptons have on the registers?
Not inside Hamptons. The closest is Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary in Bowness, 7.9 km away.
How old are the homes in Hamptons?
The 2021 Census dates 0% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).