FedHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta8101 Gateway Boulevard NWPhoto: Solange Gagnebin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta · Photo: Solange Gagnebin · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Ritchie · Canada’s heritage registers
1 historic place on the heritage registers in Ritchie
Before 1961: 33% of Ritchie’s homes, where most towns have 18%. That place is Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta, a heritage railway station, from 1907. Ritchie has 1.9 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 85% of Canadian towns. Behind these stands one more local or provincial listing that only Wikidata records.
Historic places
1
1.9 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Oldest building
1907
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
33%
typical town: 18%
Through time
Looking back at Ritchie
One picture from before 1950: the oldest view of one of its historic places. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
1908–1911Public 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 Ritchie’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Ritchie
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The closest heritage to Ritchie is Princess Theatre, 1.3 km off
They stand in 7 towns, Downtown, Strathcona and Queen Alexandra among them. The oldest, Old Scona Academic High School, dates from 1908, 1.8 km away. Within 5 km there are 21 in all.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Princess TheatreProvincial historic resource · 1.3 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Walterdale PlayhouseMunicipal historic resource · 1.4 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 |
| Ritchie MillMunicipal historic resource · 1.5 km away, in Strathcona |
| Old Strathcona BranchMunicipal historic resource · 1913 · 1.5 km away, in Strathcona |
| Strathcona Public BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1913 · 1.7 km away, in Queen Alexandra |
| Old Scona Academic High SchoolProvincial historic resource · 1908 · 1.8 km away, in Strathcona |
| J. J. Duggan ResidenceMunicipal historic resource · 1.9 km away, in Strathcona |
| Rossdale Power PlantProvincial historic resource · 2.2 km away, in Downtown |
| Hudson's Bay Company StablesMunicipal historic resource · 1914 · 2.6 km away, in Downtown |
| High Level BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 2.9 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
Homes by age
A growing town: 12% of Ritchie’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Count back from today and half of Ritchie’s homes are older than 2001. Few of Ritchie’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 17%, the norm 27%. Ritchie has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 22%, where most towns have 15%.
33%
Before 1961
17%
1961–80
17%
1981–2000
22%
2001–15
12%
2016–21
RitchieTypical 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
Ritchie has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,200 to 5,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Ritchie1
Only Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover and Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac have more. The middle one has 0. 12 of them have none.
Neighbours
Ritchie and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ritchie | 5,215 | 1 | 0 | 1907 |
| Bonnie Doon | 6,697 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hazeldean | 3,247 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Strathcona | 8,283 | 6 | 0 | 1908 |
| Avonmore | 2,971 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Queen Alexandra | 5,106 | 3 | 0 | 1913 |
| Riverdale | 5,490 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Ritchie in brief
The pre-1961 share of Ritchie’s homes is 33%, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. The rest is about typical: its one place was designated in 1991.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
Questions about Ritchie’s history
How many historic places does Ritchie have on the registers?
1 historic place in Ritchie, from Canada’s heritage registers.
How old are the homes in Ritchie?
33% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
What is the oldest building in Ritchie?
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmonton, Alberta (Heritage Railway Station): the first construction date on its record is 1907.
Why might a heritage building in Ritchie be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Ritchie is known through Wikidata alone, so it is 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).