Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0In a 25 km circle around Edmonds: 42 places on the registers
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 8%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Strathcona, 12 km off.
The registers find 42 places within 25 km of Edmonds
Closest of all is Holy Trinity Cathedral, in New Westminster, 3.7 km off. By age, Vancouver's Chinatown leads, from 1880, at 13 km. Their towns number 14: Yaletown, Granville Entertainment District and Strathcona first.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Holy Trinity CathedralListed in a community heritage register · 1902 · 3.7 km away, in New Westminster |
| Hastings ParkProvincially Recognized Heritage Site · 1888 · 9.8 km away, in Hastings-Sunrise |
| Bloedel ConservatoryListed in a community heritage register · 1969 · 12 km away, in Riley Park |
| Canadian National Railways / VIA Rail Station, Vancouver, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 12 km away, in Strathcona |
| Kuomintang BuildingHeritage designation · 12 km away, in Strathcona |
| Vancouver Japanese Language SchoolNational Historic Site · 1928–1929 · 13 km away, in Strathcona |
| Vancouver's ChinatownNational Historic Site · 1880–2003 · 13 km away, in Strathcona |
| Ovaltine CafeListed in a community heritage register · 1912 · 13 km away, in Strathcona |
| Carnegie Community CentreHeritage designation · 13 km away, in Yaletown |
| Pantages TheatreListed in a community heritage register · 1907 · 13 km away, in Yaletown |
| Sam Kee BuildingHeritage designation · 1913 · 13 km away, in Yaletown |
| Hotel EuropeHeritage designation · 1909 · 13 km away, in Yaletown |
Around Edmonds, within 25 km, most dated places come from the decades after Confederation
Places as far as 25 km from Edmonds, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
36 places within 25 km have a date. First by date comes Vancouver's Chinatown in Strathcona, from 1880.
New homes stand out in Edmonds: 8.4% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
Edmonds has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 33%, where most towns have 15%. Few of Edmonds’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 18%, the norm 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 31% of Edmonds’s, against 23% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Edmonds and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmonds | 34,805 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Buckingham Heights | 8,794 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Royal Oak | 18,364 | 0 | 0 | — |
| East Burnaby | 17,233 | 0 | 0 | — |
| New Westminster | 92,124 | 2 | 0 | 1895 |
| South Slope | 8,989 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Metrotown | 36,594 | 0 | 0 | — |
Edmonds in brief
Its housing is young: only 8% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: it has no historic place, where the middle town its size has 1.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Edmonds’s history
How many historic places does Edmonds have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Edmonds; Holy Trinity Cathedral, in New Westminster, is 3.7 km away.
How old are the homes in Edmonds?
8% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Edmonds be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 4 further listings in Edmonds 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).