Photo: LittleT889 · CC016 registered heritage sites stand within 25 km of Valley Ridge
Homes from before 1961 are 0% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. Look 12 km away, to Hillhurst, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
8 places of the highest rank within 25 km of Valley Ridge
The first one out is Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary, 2.3 km away in Bowness. They are 8 provincial or municipal listings and 8 National Historic Sites. Oldest of them is Fort Calgary (1875), 16 km off.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Wood's Douglas Fir Tree SanctuaryProvincial historic resource · 2.3 km away, in Bowness |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 12 km away, in Hillhurst |
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 13 km away, in Beltline |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 14 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 14 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 15 km away, in Beltline |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 15 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 15 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 15 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 15 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 15 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 15 km away, in Mission |
Within 25 km of Valley Ridge, the record goes back to 1875
The area here stretches to 25 km around Valley Ridge: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Within 25 km, building dates exist for 12 places. Oldest of all: Fort Calgary, Downtown East Village, 1875.
A growing town: 11% of Valley Ridge’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
47% of Valley Ridge’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 0.6% of Valley Ridge’s, against 27% in the typical town. Valley Ridge has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 40%, where most towns have 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Valley Ridge compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,700 to 7,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Baie-Saint-Paul, Central St. Boniface, Augusta, Coteau-du-Lac and Electoral Area B (Lazo North), Comox Valley have more. The typical town its size has 0. 11 of them have nothing on the registers.
Valley Ridge and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Ridge | 7,782 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cougar Ridge | 7,101 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tuscany | 19,986 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Scenic Acres | 8,026 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bowness | 11,548 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Silver Springs | 9,042 | 0 | 0 | — |
| West Springs | 11,632 | 0 | 0 | — |
Valley Ridge in brief
Its housing is young: only 0% predates 1961, 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 grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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 tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal 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.
- 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.
- 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 Valley Ridge’s history
How many historic places does Valley Ridge have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Valley Ridge; Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary, in Bowness, is 2.3 km away.
How old are the homes in Valley Ridge?
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).