Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.514 heritage places lie within 5 km of Sunalta
Heritage of the first rank begins 1.7 km from Sunalta, in Beltline. Before 1961: 29% of the homes, where most towns have 18%.
Near Sunalta, within 5 km: 8 places of national rank
Between them, 6 towns share them, mainly Downtown Commercial Core, Beltline and Downtown East Village. The radius of 5 km holds 14. Closest of all is Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall, in Beltline, 1.1 km off.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 1.1 km away, in Beltline |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 1.7 km away, in Beltline |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 2.3 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 2.4 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 2.6 km away, in Mission |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 2.6 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 2.7 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 2.8 km away, in Hillhurst |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 2.8 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 3.1 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 3.1 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 3.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
Near Sunalta (5 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation
The historic places within 5 km of Sunalta, not in it, by the first construction date on each record.
Within 5 km, 11 records give a date. Fort Calgary, in Downtown East Village, is the oldest (1875).
The biggest share of Sunalta’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 33%
Half of the homes standing in Sunalta today were built before 1981. Only 8.6% of Sunalta’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. From 2016 on, Sunalta built only 3.1% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Sunalta compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,100 to 4,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Carleton-sur-Mer and West River have more. The typical town its size has 0. For 14, the registers list nothing.
Sunalta and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunalta | 4,151 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bankview | 5,610 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lower Mount Royal | 3,136 | 0 | 0 | — |
| South Calgary | 4,412 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Downtown West End | 2,796 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Upper Mount Royal | 2,758 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Richmond | 4,811 | 0 | 0 | — |
Sunalta in brief
Older stock first: 29% of homes in Sunalta were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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.
- 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 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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 Sunalta’s history
How many historic places does Sunalta have on the registers?
Not within Sunalta. Its nearest is a top designation: Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill Hall, 1.1 km away in Beltline.
How old are the homes in Sunalta?
The 2021 Census dates 29% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Sunalta be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Sunalta, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article it gets no page.
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).