Photo: Xz1303 · CC BY-SA 3.0Okotoks and its setting: 50 historic places within 50 km
Homes from before 1961 are 2.2% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. Foothills County, 5.4 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
Top-ranked heritage near Okotoks: 40 places within 50 km
All told, 50 places are within 50 km. Foothills County, Downtown Commercial Core and Beltline hold most of them, among 10 towns. The mix: 30 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, 10 National Historic Sites and 10 provincial or municipal listings.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
| Turner Valley Gas PlantNational Historic Site · 1914–1971 · 22 km away, in Turner Valley |
| St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ChurchProvincial historic resource · 1904 · 23 km away, in Midnapore |
| Old Women's Buffalo JumpNational historic site of Canada · 28 km away, in Foothills County |
| St. Mary's Parish HallMunicipal historic resource · 1905 · 35 km away, in Mission |
| Central Memorial Library and ParkNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 36 km away, in Beltline |
| BeaulieuNational Historic Site · 1891–1892 · 36 km away, in Beltline |
| Fort CalgaryNational Historic Site · 1875–1876 · 36 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Burns BuildingProvincial historic resource · 1912 · 36 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Calgary City HallNational Historic Site · 1907–1912 · 36 km away, in Downtown East Village |
| Bank of Nova ScotiaProvincial historic resource · 36 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Stephen AvenueNational Historic Site · 1880–1931 · 36 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
| Palace TheatreNational Historic Site · 1921–1922 · 36 km away, in Downtown Commercial Core |
Within 50 km of Okotoks, the record goes back to 1875
Places as far as 50 km from Okotoks, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Within 50 km, building dates exist for 44 places. Oldest of all: Fort Calgary, Downtown East Village, 1875.
A growing town: 8.5% of Okotoks’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 55% of Okotoks’s, against 15% in the typical town. Only 8.9% of Okotoks’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. In Okotoks, 25% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Okotoks and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okotoks | 33,482 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Foothills County | 25,789 | 33 | 31 | 1880 |
| Legacy | 7,975 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Walden | 8,190 | 0 | 0 | — |
| High River | 15,508 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cranston | 20,055 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Chaparral | 12,522 | 0 | 0 | — |
Okotoks in brief
Its housing is young: only 2.2% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no historic place, where the middle town its size has 1; and one person of its past, David Vaughan Pugh (1907).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Okotoks’s history
How many historic places does Okotoks have on the registers?
Okotoks has none of its own; Turner Valley Gas Plant, in Turner Valley, the closest at 22 km, holds the highest designation.
How old are the homes in Okotoks?
The 2021 Census dates 2.2% 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).