LocalMunicipal historic resource · 1946St. Josaphat CathedralPhoto: Odysseus1479 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
St. Josaphat Cathedral · Photo: Odysseus1479 · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of McCauley · Canada’s heritage registers
37% of McCauley’s homes were built before 1961
McCauley has 2.1 times what the typical town has (18%). Inside the town the registers count 1 historic place. Relative to its size the figure is 2.5 per 10,000 residents, more than in 88% of Canadian towns. St. Josaphat Cathedral, from 1946, is the town’s municipal historic resource.
Historic places
1
2.5 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
1946
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
37%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where McCauley’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
One local listing in McCauley
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
McCauley’s area holds one top-tier place within 5 km
Nearest comes Grierson Centre, 1.2 km off, in Boyle Street. They stand in 10 towns, Downtown, Strathcona and Queen Alexandra among them. Count to 5 km and there are 24.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Grierson CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1912–1914 · 1.2 km away, in Boyle Street |
| McLeod BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 1.4 km away, in Downtown |
| Hotel MacdonaldMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 1.6 km away, in Downtown |
| First Presbyterian ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1912 · 2 km away, in Downtown |
| Victoria ArmouryProvincial historic resource · 2.2 km away, in Downtown |
| McKay Avenue SchoolMunicipal historic resource · 2.3 km away, in Downtown |
| Hudson's Bay Company StablesMunicipal historic resource · 1914 · 2.3 km away, in Downtown |
| Alberta Aviation MuseumMunicipal historic resource · 1942 · 2.5 km away, in Sherbrooke |
| Rossdale Power PlantProvincial historic resource · 3 km away, in Downtown |
| High Level BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 3.3 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
| Magrath MansionProvincial historic resource · 3.4 km away, in Highlands |
| Robertson-Wesley United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1971 · 3.6 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
Homes by age
37% of McCauley’s homes were built before 1961
New building in McCauley runs at the usual pace: 4.2% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%. Only 6.1% of McCauley’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Over half of the homes in McCauley were already standing by 1981.
37%
Before 1961
27%
1961–80
21%
1981–2000
6.1%
2001–15
4.2%
2016–21
McCauleyTypical 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
McCauley has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,000 to 4,100 residents, by places on the registers.
McCauley1
Only Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges has more. The typical town its size has 0. 10 of them have none.
Neighbours
McCauley and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCauley | 4,060 | 1 | 0 | 1946 |
| Boyle Street | 5,862 | 1 | 0 | 1912 |
| Central McDougall | 4,802 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Alberta Avenue | 6,097 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Parkdale | 4,029 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Virginia Park | 3,431 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Downtown | 12,880 | 7 | 0 | 1912 |
In brief
McCauley in brief
McCauley’s homes from before 1961 come to 37%, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 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
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- 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.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
Questions about McCauley’s history
How old are the homes in McCauley?
37% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does McCauley have on the registers?
1 historic place inside McCauley, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in McCauley?
St. Josaphat Cathedral, a Municipal historic resource, begun in 1946.
Why might a heritage building in McCauley be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 5 more listings in McCauley are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
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).