Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0The heritage near Empire Park: 10 places in a 5 km radius
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 6.2%. The closest top-tier heritage is in Glenora, 7.7 km from here.
10 designated places lie within 5 km of Empire Park
Closest of all is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta”, in Ritchie, 3.8 km off. Among them are 9 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station. They stand in 3 towns, Strathcona, Queen Alexandra and Ritchie among them.
The 10 nearest, within 5 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 3.8 km away, in Ritchie |
| Strathcona Public BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1913 · 3.8 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Princess TheatreProvincial historic resource · 3.8 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Old StrathconaProvincial historic area · 3.9 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Walterdale PlayhouseMunicipal historic resource · 4 km away, in Strathcona |
| Old Scona Academic High SchoolProvincial historic resource · 1908 · 4 km away, in Strathcona |
| Old Strathcona BranchMunicipal historic resource · 1913 · 4.1 km away, in Strathcona |
| Connaught ArmouryMunicipal historic resource · 4.2 km away, in Strathcona |
| J. J. Duggan ResidenceMunicipal historic resource · 4.4 km away, in Strathcona |
| Ritchie MillMunicipal historic resource · 4.5 km away, in Strathcona |
Empire Park added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 0.5%, where most towns have 4.1%
Count back from today and half of Empire Park’s homes are older than 1981. Empire Park’s largest group of homes, 49%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 20% of Empire Park’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Empire Park compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,800 to 4,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Saint-Jacques has more. The middle one has 0. For 15, the registers list nothing.
Empire Park and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire Park | 4,817 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pleasantview | 3,746 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Duggan | 6,247 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Malmo Plains | 4,150 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Royal Gardens | 3,392 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Allendale | 2,951 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Greenfield | 3,710 | 0 | 0 | — |
Empire Park in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 6.2% of the total, 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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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.
Questions about Empire Park’s history
How many historic places does Empire Park have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Empire Park; Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta, in Ritchie, is 3.8 km away.
How old are the homes in Empire Park?
6.2% predate 1961, where 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).