Photo: Alasdair McLellan · CC BY-SA 3.0Cobble Hill and its setting: 5 historic places within 25 km
Only 8.1% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. Central Saanich, 18 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
Top-ranked heritage near Cobble Hill: 2 places within 25 km
The oldest, Butchart Gardens, dates from 1904, 16 km away. Nearest comes Kinsol Trestle, 9.1 km off, in Shawnigan. 5 places lie within 25 km.
The 5 nearest, within 25 km
| Kinsol TrestleListed in a community heritage register · 9.1 km away, in Shawnigan |
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station (VIA Rail), Duncan, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1912–1913 · 13 km away, in Duncan |
| Butchart GardensNational Historic Site · 1904–1940 · 16 km away, in Central Saanich |
| Tod InletProvincially Recognized Heritage Site · 17 km away, in Juan de Fuca (Part 1) |
| Dominion Astrophysical ObservatoryNational Historic Site · 1914–1919 · 23 km away, in Saanich |
Most of Cobble Hill’s homes went up from 1981 to 2000: 46%
Over half of the homes in Cobble Hill were already standing by 2001. New building has been slow in Cobble Hill: 3.2% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. 27% of Cobble Hill’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 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 Cobble Hill compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,000 to 5,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Annapolis County, Subdivision B, River-Osborne and Saint-Germain-de-Grantham. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Cobble Hill and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobble Hill | 5,074 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cowichan Bay | 3,713 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley | 5,156 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Shawnigan | 9,903 | 1 | 0 | — |
| North Saanich | 12,986 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cowichan | 2,509 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley | 4,482 | 0 | 0 | — |
Cobble Hill in brief
Before 1961: just 8.1% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
Questions about Cobble Hill’s history
How many historic places does Cobble Hill have on the registers?
None inside Cobble Hill yet. The nearest is Kinsol Trestle, 9.1 km away in Shawnigan.
How old are the homes in Cobble Hill?
8.1% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).