Upper Mount Royal keeps its older homes: 47% from before 1961
Upper Mount Royal has 2.7 times what the typical town has (18%). Within 5 km of Upper Mount Royal there are 14 designated places; Beaulieu, at 1.1 km, is the closest. Beltline, 1.2 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
Around Upper Mount Royal, within 5 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
Within 5 km of Upper Mount Royal but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
Dated places within 5 km: 11. The oldest is Fort Calgary in Downtown East Village, from 1875.
1.1 km from Upper Mount Royal: Beaulieu, the nearest on the registers
The mix: 8 National Historic Sites and 6 provincial or municipal listings. Count to 5 km and there are 14. Fort Calgary, 3.2 km off, is the oldest: 1875.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 1.1 km away, in Beltline |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 1.5 km away, in Beltline |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 1.5 km away, in Mission |
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 1.5 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 2.1 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 2.2 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 2.4 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 2.4 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 2.6 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 2.8 km away, in Sunnyside |
47% of Upper Mount Royal’s homes were built before 1961
Few of Upper Mount Royal’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 8.3%, the norm 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 14% of Upper Mount Royal’s, against 23% in the typical town. From 2016 to 2021 Upper Mount Royal added 4.1% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 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 Upper Mount Royal compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,700 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, Little Current and Wakefield have more. Their median is 0. 13 of them have none.
Upper Mount Royal and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Mount Royal | 2,758 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lower Mount Royal | 3,136 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bankview | 5,610 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mission | 6,329 | 1 | 0 | 1905 |
| Beltline | 26,171 | 3 | 3 | 1891 |
| Elbow Park | 4,120 | 0 | 0 | — |
| South Calgary | 4,412 | 0 | 0 | — |
Upper Mount Royal in brief
Of the homes standing in Upper Mount Royal, 47% went up before 1961, 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
- 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. 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 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. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Upper Mount Royal’s history
How many historic places does Upper Mount Royal have on the registers?
Not within Upper Mount Royal. Its nearest is a top designation: Beaulieu, 1.1 km away in Beltline.
How old are the homes in Upper Mount Royal?
Before 1961: 47% 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).