Photo: Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Ambleside, 27 historic places within 25 km
Before 1961: just 0% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. Glenora, 13 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
Ambleside’s area holds 2 top-tier places within 25 km
The first one out is Strathcona Public Building, 12 km away in Queen Alexandra. By age, “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta” leads, from 1907, at 12 km. All told, 27 places are within 25 km.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Strathcona Public BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1913 · 12 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Old Scona Academic High SchoolProvincial historic resource · 1908 · 12 km away, in Strathcona |
| Old StrathconaProvincial historic area · 12 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Princess TheatreProvincial historic resource · 12 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 12 km away, in Ritchie |
| Old Strathcona BranchMunicipal historic resource · 1913 · 12 km away, in Strathcona |
| Rutherford HouseProvincial historic resource · 1911 · 12 km away, in Garneau |
| Walterdale PlayhouseMunicipal historic resource · 12 km away, in Strathcona |
| J. J. Duggan ResidenceMunicipal historic resource · 12 km away, in Strathcona |
| Connaught ArmouryMunicipal historic resource · 12 km away, in Strathcona |
| Ritchie MillMunicipal historic resource · 13 km away, in Strathcona |
| High Level BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 13 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
Around Ambleside, within 25 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
No place near Ambleside is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
First by date comes “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta” in Ritchie, from 1907. 15 dated places within 25 km make up the record.
21% of Ambleside’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Ambleside has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 78%, where most towns have 15%. Few of Ambleside’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 0%, the norm 27%. Only 0.5% of Ambleside’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than 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 Ambleside compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,700 to 7,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Baie-Saint-Paul, Central St. Boniface and Augusta. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have none.
Ambleside and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambleside | 7,733 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Glenridding Heights | 4,388 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Windermere | 14,922 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Keswick | 3,957 | 0 | 0 | — |
| South Terwillegar | 8,183 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Terwillegar Towne | 6,478 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Haddow | 4,026 | 0 | 0 | — |
Ambleside in brief
Its homes are mostly newer: 0% were built before 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
- 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. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
Questions about Ambleside’s history
How many historic places does Ambleside have on the registers?
Ambleside has none of its own yet. Strathcona Public Building, in Queen Alexandra, is the nearest, 12 km away.
How old are the homes in Ambleside?
Before 1961: 0% 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).