LocalProvincial historic resource · 1911Rutherford HousePhoto: Jeffery J. Nichols ( Arctic.gnome ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Rutherford House · Photo: Jeffery J. Nichols ( Arctic.gnome ) · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Garneau · Canada’s heritage registers
Garneau’s past, on the record: 1 historic place
In Garneau that place is Rutherford House, a provincial historic resource, from 1911. For every 10,000 residents Garneau has 1.2, ahead of 80% of Canadian towns. There are also 7 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages.
Historic places
1
1.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1911
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
19%
typical town: 18%
Through time
Garneau in old pictures
One picture from before 1950: the oldest view of one of its historic places. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
1910Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The map
Where Garneau’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Garneau: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Within 5 km of Garneau: 22 places on the registers
By designation: 19 provincial or municipal listings, a heritage railway station and a National Historic Site. The nearest of the highest rank is Government House, 2.9 km away. Oldest of them is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta” (1907), 1.6 km off.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Old Scona Academic High SchoolProvincial historic resource · 1908 · 1.1 km away, in Strathcona |
| J. J. Duggan ResidenceMunicipal historic resource · 1.2 km away, in Strathcona |
| Strathcona Public BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1913 · 1.2 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| High Level BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 1.2 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
| Old Strathcona BranchMunicipal historic resource · 1913 · 1.3 km away, in Strathcona |
| Old StrathconaProvincial historic area · 1.4 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Connaught ArmouryMunicipal historic resource · 1.5 km away, in Strathcona |
| Walterdale PlayhouseMunicipal historic resource · 1.5 km away, in Strathcona |
| Princess TheatreProvincial historic resource · 1.5 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Ritchie MillMunicipal historic resource · 1.6 km away, in Strathcona |
| Rossdale Power PlantProvincial historic resource · 1.6 km away, in Downtown |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 1.6 km away, in Ritchie |
Homes by age
Most of Garneau’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 38%
Over half of the homes in Garneau were already standing by 1981. From 2016 to 2021 Garneau added 3.3% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Homes from before 1961 are 19% of Garneau’s housing, about the typical 18%.
19%
Before 1961
38%
1961–80
27%
1981–2000
13%
2001–15
3.3%
2016–21
GarneauTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Garneau has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,400 to 8,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Garneau1
Ahead of it: Lac-Beauport. Their median is 0. 10 of them have none.
Neighbours
Garneau and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garneau | 8,492 | 1 | 0 | 1911 |
| Queen Alexandra | 5,106 | 3 | 0 | 1913 |
| McKernan | 2,880 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Strathcona | 8,283 | 6 | 0 | 1908 |
| Belgravia | 5,478 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Allendale | 2,951 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Downtown | 12,880 | 7 | 0 | 1912 |
In brief
Garneau in brief
Before 1961: 19% of Garneau’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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. 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 tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
Questions about Garneau’s history
How many historic places does Garneau have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Garneau.
What is the oldest building in Garneau?
Rutherford House, a Provincial historic resource, begun in 1911.
Why might a heritage building in Garneau be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 7 more listings in Garneau are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
How old are the homes in Garneau?
19% 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).