13 registered heritage sites stand within 10 km of Penbrooke Meadows
Few homes are old by the census: 3.1% before 1961, against 18%. Look 7.2 km away, to Downtown East Village, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
13 designated places lie within 10 km of Penbrooke Meadows
Their towns number 5: Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Downtown East Village first. Nearest comes Fort Calgary, 6.9 km off, in Downtown East Village. The mix: 7 National Historic Sites and 6 provincial or municipal listings.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 6.9 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 7.6 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 7.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 7.8 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 8 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 8.1 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 8.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 8.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 8.2 km away, in Mission |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 8.5 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 8.6 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 9.1 km away, in Beltline |
Within 10 km of Penbrooke Meadows, the oldest record dates from 1875
Around Penbrooke Meadows, not inside it: the places within 10 km, by the first construction date on record.
10 places within 10 km carry a construction date. Fort Calgary, in Downtown East Village, is the oldest (1875).
Little new building in Penbrooke Meadows: 1.5% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Only 16% of Penbrooke Meadows’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 69% of Penbrooke Meadows’s, against 27% in the typical town. Penbrooke Meadows built little from 2001 to 2015: 7.6% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Penbrooke Meadows compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,000 to 10,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Kitimat. The typical town its size has 0. 15 of them have none.
Penbrooke Meadows and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penbrooke Meadows | 10,001 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Applewood Park | 6,835 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forest Heights | 6,120 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Marlborough Park | 8,378 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forest Lawn | 7,513 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Abbeydale | 6,561 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Marlborough | 8,932 | 0 | 0 | — |
Penbrooke Meadows in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 3.1% of the total, 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
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Penbrooke Meadows’s history
How many historic places does Penbrooke Meadows have on the registers?
Nothing inside Penbrooke Meadows; Fort Calgary in Downtown East Village, 6.9 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Penbrooke Meadows?
3.1% 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).