Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Beyond Carstairs’s limits, 20 historic places within 100 km
Before 1961: just 7.6% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. The nearest town with a top designation is Hillhurst, 55 km away.
The highest designation, 9 times, within 100 km of Carstairs
By designation: 10 provincial or municipal listings, 9 National Historic Sites and a heritage railway station. At 52 km, Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary in Bowness is the closest. All told, 20 places are within 100 km.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Wood's Douglas Fir Tree SanctuaryProvincial historic resource · 52 km away, in Bowness |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 55 km away, in Hillhurst |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 56 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 56 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 57 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 57 km away, in Beltline |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 57 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 57 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 57 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 57 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 57 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 57 km away, in Downtown East Village |
Within 100 km of Carstairs, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
The area here stretches to 100 km around Carstairs: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Oldest of all: Fort Calgary, Downtown East Village, 1875. The bars count 14 dated places within 100 km.
A growing town: 14% of Carstairs’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Few of Carstairs’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 18%, the norm 27%. Carstairs has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 41%, where most towns have 15%. 19% of Carstairs’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to the typical town’s 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 Carstairs compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,200 to 5,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover. The middle one has 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.
Carstairs and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carstairs | 5,248 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Didsbury | 5,185 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Crossfield | 4,075 | 0 | 0 | — |
Carstairs in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 7.6% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Harry Hays (1909) is its person of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- 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 is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
Questions about Carstairs’s history
How many historic places does Carstairs have on the registers?
None within Carstairs itself; the nearest is 52 km off: Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary, in Bowness.
How old are the homes in Carstairs?
Before 1961: 7.6% 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).