Magrath Mansion · Photo: Odysseus1479 · CC BY-SA 3.0Highlands keeps its older homes: 72% from before 1961
Highlands has 4.1 times what the typical town has (18%). The registers put 1 historic place inside its boundary. Scaled to its population the record is long: 3.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 92% of Canadian towns. Wikidata knows 3 more provincial or municipal listings here that get no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article.
Where Highlands’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
What the map shows is the open record: the federal directory in full, and from provincial or municipal lists only the places Wikidata ties to an encyclopedia article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
On a provincial or local list in Highlands: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
LocalWithin 5 km of Highlands: 4 places on the registers
They are spread over 3 towns, including Downtown, McCauley and Boyle Street. Oldest of them is Grierson Centre (1912), 3.9 km off. Nearest comes St. Josaphat Cathedral, 3.9 km off, in McCauley.
The 4 nearest, within 5 km
| St. Josaphat CathedralMunicipal historic resource · 1946 · 3.9 km away, in McCauley |
| Grierson CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1912–1914 · 3.9 km away, in Boyle Street |
| McLeod BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 4.6 km away, in Downtown |
| Hotel MacdonaldMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 4.7 km away, in Downtown |
Only 1.6% of Highlands’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Few of Highlands’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 2.4%, the norm 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 8.8% of Highlands’s, against 23% in the typical town. Only 12% of Highlands’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Highlands and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands | 2,677 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Montrose | 3,378 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Newton | 2,809 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Virginia Park | 3,431 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Capilano | 5,046 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beacon Heights | 4,389 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beverly Heights | 3,252 | 0 | 0 | — |
Highlands in brief
Before 1961: 72% of Highlands’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place. Everything else is close to the norm: it has one historic place, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
Questions about Highlands’s history
How old are the homes in Highlands?
72% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Highlands have on the registers?
1 historic place in Highlands, from Canada’s heritage registers.
Why might a heritage building in Highlands be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 3 further listings in Highlands show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).