Photo: CnekYT · CC BY-SA 4.0Within 5 km of Spruce Cliff, 9 places are on the heritage registers
The closest top-tier heritage to Spruce Cliff is in Hillhurst, 2.9 km away. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 5.4% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
Leave Spruce Cliff and the first historic place is Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall, 3.2 km away
They belong to 4 towns, chiefly Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Hillhurst. Stephen Avenue, 5 km off, is the oldest: 1880. 9 places lie within 5 km.
The 9 nearest, within 5 km
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 3.2 km away, in Beltline |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 3.7 km away, in Hillhurst |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 4 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 4.4 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 4.5 km away, in Beltline |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 4.8 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 4.9 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 4.9 km away, in Mission |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 5 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
The 5 km around Spruce Cliff keep buildings from as early as 1880
Within 5 km of Spruce Cliff but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
7 dated places within 5 km make up the record. Stephen Avenue, in Downtown Commercial Core, is the oldest (1880).
The biggest share of Spruce Cliff’s homes dates from 2001 to 2015: 38%
Half of the homes standing in Spruce Cliff today were built before 2001. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 12% of Spruce Cliff’s, against 23% in the typical town. 22% of Spruce Cliff’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% 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.
How Spruce Cliff compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 6,600 to 6,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Annapolis County, Subdivision A and Barrington. Their median is 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Spruce Cliff and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Cliff | 6,691 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Wildwood | 4,177 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Rosscarrock | 3,862 | 0 | 0 | — |
| West Hillhurst | 10,319 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Killarney/Glengarry | 7,935 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westgate | 3,139 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sunalta | 4,151 | 0 | 0 | — |
Spruce Cliff in brief
Spruce Cliff’s homes from before 1961 come to 22%, 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 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- 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. 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.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
Questions about Spruce Cliff’s history
How many historic places does Spruce Cliff have on the registers?
None inside Spruce Cliff yet. The nearest, Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall, carries the highest designation, 3.2 km away in Beltline.
How old are the homes in Spruce Cliff?
22% 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).