Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0The registers count 16 places within 50 km of Cochrane; the closest, Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary, is 20 km away. Before 1961: just 1.4% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. Hillhurst, 30 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
The record puts Cochrane’s founding in 1881. That was 145 years ago. Its charter made Cochrane a village in 1903.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Cochrane, Alberta”, revision 1380215597 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
The nearest historic places to Cochrane, out to 50 km, by the first construction date on each record.
The earliest is Fort Calgary in Downtown East Village, begun in 1875. Dated places within 50 km: 12.
For the highest designations, the nearest of 8 is Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, 30 km away. The earliest date is Fort Calgary’s, 1875, 34 km away. Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary in Bowness is the nearest, 20 km away.
| Wood's Douglas Fir Tree SanctuaryProvincial historic resource · 20 km away, in Bowness |
| Heritage Hall - Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyNational Historic Site · 1921–1923 · 30 km away, in Hillhurst |
| Mewata Drill Hall / Calgary Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1917–1919 · 31 km away, in Beltline |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 32 km away, in Beltline |
| Knox United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 32 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Centre Street BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 33 km away, in Sunnyside |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 33 km away, in Beltline |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 33 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 33 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 33 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Cathedral Church of the RedeemerMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 33 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 33 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
Cochrane built little from 1961 to 1980: 8.4% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. 46% of Cochrane’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 24% of Cochrane’s, about the typical 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cochrane | 39,397 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Rocky View County | 50,260 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Rocky Ridge | 8,419 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tuscany | 19,986 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Royal Oak | 12,343 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Valley Ridge | 7,782 | 0 | 0 | — |
Its housing is young: only 1.4% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
Not inside Cochrane. The closest is Wood's Douglas Fir Tree Sanctuary in Bowness, 20 km away.
Before 1961: 1.4% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows one more listing in Cochrane, 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).