LocalProvincial historic resource · 1913Strathcona Public BuildingPhoto: Yuet Man Lee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Old Strathcona · Photo: Arctic.gnome · CC BY-SA 3.03historic places on the registers
History of Queen Alexandra · Canada’s heritage registers
The registers record 3 historic places in Queen Alexandra
Per resident Queen Alexandra outdoes 95% of Canadian towns, with 5.9 for every 10,000 people. The oldest dated place, Strathcona Public Building, goes back to 1913. 2 further listings on provincial or municipal registers are known only through Wikidata, so they have no page of their own. On the list: 3 provincial or municipal listings.
Historic places
3
5.9 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
3
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1913
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
21%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Past and present Queen Alexandra: 3 photos, 1 old views
In front: Old Strathcona and Strathcona Public Building. Each of Queen Alexandra’s designated places has a photo. 3 photographers took them.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Through time
The old face of Queen Alexandra
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap it to see it full screen.
c. 1915Public 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 Queen Alexandra’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 3, by tier
3 Provincial and local listings
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.
Provincial and local listings
3 local listings in Queen Alexandra
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Strathcona Public Building and Old Strathcona lead the list. Each one opens its own page.
Local
LocalHomes by age
New homes stand out in Queen Alexandra: 6.5% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 39% of Queen Alexandra’s homes. Homes from before 1961 are 21% of Queen Alexandra’s housing, about the typical 18%. Over half of the homes in Queen Alexandra were already standing by 1981.
21%
Before 1961
39%
1961–80
19%
1981–2000
14%
2001–15
6.5%
2016–21
Queen AlexandraTypical 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
Queen Alexandra has the 1st most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,100 to 5,100 residents, by places on the registers.
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Their median is 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Queen Alexandra and its neighbours
In brief
Queen Alexandra in brief
Housing in Queen Alexandra includes 21% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- 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 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.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- 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.
Questions about Queen Alexandra’s history
How many historic places does Queen Alexandra have on the registers?
The registers list 3 historic places inside Queen Alexandra.
What is the oldest building in Queen Alexandra?
Strathcona Public Building, a Provincial historic resource, begun in 1913.
Why might a heritage building in Queen Alexandra be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 2 more listings in Queen Alexandra are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
How old are the homes in Queen Alexandra?
The 2021 Census dates 21% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).