Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/sillygwailo/ - sillygwailo / Richard Eriksson · CC BY 2.0The heritage near Heights: 31 places in a 10 km radius
The closest top-tier heritage to Heights is in Strathcona, 6.3 km away. 5.8% of its homes went up between 2016 and 2021; the typical town built 4.1%.
Within 10 km of Heights, 9 top designations
Nearest comes Hastings Park, 2.6 km off, in Hastings-Sunrise. The record reaches back to 1880 with Vancouver's Chinatown, 6.8 km away. Their towns number 8: Yaletown, Granville Entertainment District and Strathcona first.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Hastings ParkProvincially Recognized Heritage Site · 1888 · 2.6 km away, in Hastings-Sunrise |
| First Church of Christ, ScientistListed in a community heritage register · 1925 · 6.1 km away, in North Vancouver |
| Burrard Dry DockHeritage designation · 6.1 km away, in North Vancouver |
| Victoria ParkListed in a community heritage register · 1905 · 6.3 km away, in North Vancouver |
| Vancouver Japanese Language SchoolNational Historic Site · 1928–1929 · 6.4 km away, in Strathcona |
| Kuomintang BuildingHeritage designation · 6.7 km away, in Strathcona |
| Ovaltine CafeListed in a community heritage register · 1912 · 6.8 km away, in Strathcona |
| Canadian National Railways / VIA Rail Station, Vancouver, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 6.8 km away, in Strathcona |
| Vancouver's ChinatownNational Historic Site · 1880–2003 · 6.8 km away, in Strathcona |
| Carnegie Community CentreHeritage designation · 6.9 km away, in Yaletown |
| Pantages TheatreListed in a community heritage register · 1907 · 7 km away, in Yaletown |
| Saint Paul's Roman Catholic ChurchNational Historic Site · 1884–1885 · 7.1 km away, in North Vancouver |
The 10 km around Heights keep buildings from as early as 1880
Around Heights, not inside it: the places within 10 km, by the first construction date on record.
The bars count 26 dated places within 10 km. The earliest is Vancouver's Chinatown in Strathcona, begun in 1880.
Heights built the most from 1981 to 2000, 32% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Heights’s homes are older than 2001. Before 1961: 19% of Heights’s homes, near the usual 18%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 28% of Heights’s, about the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Heights compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 21,900 to 22,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Only South End, Red Deer County and Port Colborne have more. Their median is 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Heights and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heights | 22,141 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Brentwood | 22,170 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Holdom | 7,976 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hastings-Sunrise | 36,072 | 1 | 0 | 1888 |
| Lochdale | 7,463 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Broadview | 8,008 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Burrard Inlet 3 | 2,820 | 0 | 0 | — |
Heights in brief
Counted by age, 19% of Heights’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
Questions about Heights’s history
How many historic places does Heights have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Heights; Hastings Park, in Hastings-Sunrise, is 2.6 km away.
How old are the homes in Heights?
Before 1961: 19% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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).