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History of Canmore · Canada’s heritage registers

The name Canmore dates from 1884 and honours Malcolm III of Scotland

The nearest heritage to Canmore is East Gate Registration Buildings, Building 1, 7.8 km off, one of 18 places within 25 km. Homes from before 1961 are 1.4% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. Look 19 km away, to Banff, for the nearest place of the highest designation.

Historic places within 25 km

5 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

7.8 km

East Gate Registration Buildings, Building 1

Homes built before 1961

1.4%

typical town: 18%

Born here before 1914

the earliest in 1907

How it began

The record of Canmore, from 1884 on

Canmore got its name in 1884. Canmore was incorporated as a town in 1965. The name Canmore comes from Malcolm III of Scotland, king of Scotland from 1058 to 1093.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Canmore, Alberta”, revision 1374263443 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

The age of the area

Within 25 km of Canmore, the dated places belong mostly to the wars and the Depression

The nearest historic places to Canmore, out to 25 km, by the first construction date on each record.

British North America 1760–18660

After Confederation 1867–19135

Wars and Depression 1914–194512

Since 1946 1946 on1

The bars count 18 dated places within 25 km. First by date comes Cave and Basin in Improvement District No. 9 Banff, from 1883.

Around the town

Canmore’s surroundings: 18 historic places within 25 km

The nearest is “East Gate Registration Buildings, Building 1”, 7.8 km away in Improvement District No. 9 Banff. Of the 5 of the highest rank, the nearest is Banff Springs Hotel, 18 km away. They are 12 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, 4 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station.

The 12 nearest, within 25 km

East Gate Registration Buildings, Building 1Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1934–1937 · 7.8 km away, in Improvement District No. 9 Banff

East Gate Registration Buildings, Building 3Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1934–1937 · 7.8 km away, in Improvement District No. 9 Banff

East Gate Registration Buildings, Building 2Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1934–1937 · 7.8 km away, in Improvement District No. 9 Banff

Fortune Warden CabinRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1941–1954 · 12 km away, in Improvement District No. 9 Banff

Upper Hot Springs Bath HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1931–1933 · 18 km away, in Improvement District No. 9 Banff

Upper Hot Pool ResidenceRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1934–1937 · 18 km away, in Improvement District No. 9 Banff

Banff Springs HotelNational Historic Site · 1911–1929 · 18 km away, in Banff

Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray StationNational Historic Site · 1956–1958 · 19 km away, in Improvement District No. 9 Banff

Administration BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1937 · 19 km away, in Banff

Cambrian PavilionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1934–1936 · 19 km away, in Banff

Rustic Lookout PavilionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1936 · 19 km away, in Banff

Devonian PavilionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1934–1936 · 19 km away, in Banff

Homes by age

A growing town: 9.8% of Canmore’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%

Canmore built little from 1961 to 1980: 10% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. 49% of Canmore’s homes date from 1981 to 2000, well above the typical 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 30% of Canmore’s, against 15% in the typical town.

1.4%

Before 1961

10%

1961–80

49%

1981–2000

30%

2001–15

9.8%

2016–21

CanmoreTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Canmore and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Highest	Oldest
Canmore	17,341	0	0	—
Bighorn No. 8	1,857	0	0	—

In brief

Canmore in brief

Its housing is young: only 1.4% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and Percy Jackson (1907) is its person of the past on the record.

How to read these numbers

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.
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. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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.
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.

Questions about Canmore’s history

How many historic places does Canmore have on the registers?

Inside Canmore, none so far; East Gate Registration Buildings, Building 1, 7.8 km away in Improvement District No. 9 Banff, is the closest.

How old are the homes in Canmore?

The 2021 Census dates 1.4% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).

Why might a heritage building in Canmore be missing here?

Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 2 more listings in Canmore are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.

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).