Laurel and its setting: 25 historic places within 25 km
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 0%. Heritage of the first rank begins 16 km away, in Glenora.
Leave Laurel and the first historic place is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta”, 11 km away
Their towns number 11: Downtown, Strathcona and Queen Alexandra first. The one top designation nearby is Government House, at 15 km. Among them are 22 provincial or municipal listings, a heritage railway station and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, AlbertaHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 11 km away, in Ritchie |
| Princess TheatreProvincial historic resource · 11 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Old StrathconaProvincial historic area · 11 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Walterdale PlayhouseMunicipal historic resource · 11 km away, in Strathcona |
| Strathcona Public BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1913 · 11 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Connaught ArmouryMunicipal historic resource · 11 km away, in Strathcona |
| Old Strathcona BranchMunicipal historic resource · 1913 · 11 km away, in Strathcona |
| Ritchie MillMunicipal historic resource · 11 km away, in Strathcona |
| Old Scona Academic High SchoolProvincial historic resource · 1908 · 11 km away, in Strathcona |
| J. J. Duggan ResidenceMunicipal historic resource · 11 km away, in Strathcona |
| Rossdale Power PlantProvincial historic resource · 12 km away, in Downtown |
| Hudson's Bay Company StablesMunicipal historic resource · 1914 · 12 km away, in Downtown |
Near Laurel (25 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation
The area here stretches to 25 km around Laurel: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
14 places within 25 km carry a construction date. The earliest is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta” in Ritchie, begun in 1907.
New homes stand out in Laurel: 48% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 1.3% of Laurel’s, against 23% in the typical town. Laurel built little from 1961 to 1980: 0% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. 50% of Laurel’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Laurel and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel | 15,263 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Daly Grove | 3,486 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Crawford Plains | 3,075 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bisset | 3,049 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Silver Berry | 9,439 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pollard Meadows | 4,361 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Weinlos | 3,243 | 0 | 0 | — |
Laurel in brief
Few of its homes are old, 0% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Laurel’s history
How many historic places does Laurel have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Laurel; Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta, in Ritchie, is 11 km away.
How old are the homes in Laurel?
0% 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).