LocalProvincial historic resource · 1908Old Scona Academic High SchoolPhoto: Rawlangs · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Old Strathcona Branch · Photo: Jeffery J. Nichols ( Arctic.gnome ) · CC BY-SA 3.06historic places on the registers
History of Strathcona · Canada’s heritage registers
The registers record 6 historic places in Strathcona
Scaled to its population Strathcona’s record is long: 7.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 97% of Canadian towns. The earliest construction date, 1908, belongs to Old Scona Academic High School. There are also 12 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages. The record has 6 provincial or municipal listings.
Historic places
6
7.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
6
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1908
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
24%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
6 photographs of Strathcona’s designated places
All of Strathcona’s designated places are pictured. First come Old Strathcona Branch and J. J. Duggan Residence. The pictures are the work of 5 photographers.
J. J. Duggan Residence
Ritchie Mill
Old Scona Academic High School
Connaught Armoury
Walterdale Playhouse+1See all photosPhotos 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.
The map
Where Strathcona’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 6, by tier
6 Provincial and local listings
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.
What’s designated
The list in Strathcona starts with public buildings, at 33%
The list spans 5 kinds of place. Two of the highest-ranked are Old Scona Academic High School and Old Strathcona Branch.
Public buildings2
Forts and military buildings1
Houses1
Mills, shops and works1
Other places1
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Provincial and local listings
6 more places Strathcona or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Old Scona Academic High School is the earliest, from 1908; the latest dates from 1913. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal historic resource · 1913Old Strathcona BranchPhoto: Jeffery J. Nichols ( Arctic.gnome ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Local
LocalMunicipal historic resourceJ. J. Duggan ResidencePhoto: Jeffery J. Nichols ( Arctic.gnome ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
LocalMunicipal historic resourceRitchie MillPhoto: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia · Public domain · Commons file
LocalHomes by age
24% of Strathcona’s homes are older than 1961, against a usual 18%
Over half of the homes in Strathcona were already standing by 1981. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 39% of Strathcona’s homes. Only 8.2% of Strathcona’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%.
24%
Before 1961
39%
1961–80
23%
1981–2000
8.2%
2001–15
4%
2016–21
StrathconaTypical 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
Strathcona has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,200 to 8,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Strathcona6
The middle one has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Strathcona and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathcona | 8,283 | 6 | 0 | 1908 |
| Ritchie | 5,215 | 1 | 0 | 1907 |
| Queen Alexandra | 5,106 | 3 | 0 | 1913 |
| Garneau | 8,492 | 1 | 0 | 1911 |
| Downtown | 12,880 | 7 | 0 | 1912 |
| Bonnie Doon | 6,697 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Riverdale | 5,490 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Strathcona in brief
The pre-1961 share of Strathcona’s homes is 24%, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 6 historic places. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- 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.
- 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.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
Questions about Strathcona’s history
How many historic places does Strathcona have on the registers?
The registers list 6 historic places inside Strathcona.
What is the oldest building in Strathcona?
Old Scona Academic High School, a Provincial historic resource, begun in 1908.
How old are the homes in Strathcona?
Before 1961: 24% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Strathcona be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 12 further listings in Strathcona 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).