Photo: Johntwrl · Public domainCapilano keeps its older homes: 73% from before 1961
Against 18% in the typical town, Capilano has 4.2 times the share. The nearest heritage to Capilano is Magrath Mansion, 1.4 km off, one of 6 places within 5 km. Glenora, 9.1 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
Within 5 km of Capilano, the record goes back to 1912
Within 5 km of Capilano but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
Grierson Centre, in Boyle Street, goes back furthest, to 1912. Dated places within 5 km: 5.
6 historic places within 5 km of Capilano
The earliest date is Grierson Centre’s, 1912, 3.6 km away. At 1.4 km, Magrath Mansion in Highlands is the closest. Between them, 4 towns share them, mainly Downtown, Highlands and Boyle Street.
The 6 nearest, within 5 km
| Magrath MansionProvincial historic resource · 1.4 km away, in Highlands |
| Grierson CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1912–1914 · 3.6 km away, in Boyle Street |
| St. Josaphat CathedralMunicipal historic resource · 1946 · 4.2 km away, in McCauley |
| Hotel MacdonaldMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 4.3 km away, in Downtown |
| McLeod BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 4.4 km away, in Downtown |
| Hudson's Bay Company StablesMunicipal historic resource · 1914 · 5 km away, in Downtown |
Only 1% of Capilano’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 4.8% of Capilano’s, against 23% in the typical town. Only 1% of Capilano’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Capilano built little from 1961 to 1980: 18% of its homes, where most towns have 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Capilano compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,000 to 5,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Carbonear and Saint-Germain-de-Grantham have more. The typical town its size has 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Capilano and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capilano | 5,046 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Gold Bar | 2,685 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forest Heights | 4,118 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Highlands | 2,677 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ottewell | 8,040 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Virginia Park | 3,431 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beverly Heights | 3,252 | 0 | 0 | — |
Capilano in brief
Counted by age, 73% of Capilano’s homes predate 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. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Capilano’s history
How many historic places does Capilano have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Capilano; Magrath Mansion, in Highlands, is 1.4 km away.
How old are the homes in Capilano?
73% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).