The heritage near Fruitvale: 5 places in a 50 km radius
From Fruitvale, look 18 km away, to Rossland, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Homes from before 1961 make up 28% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town.
The registers find 5 places within 50 km of Fruitvale
Nearest comes Rossland Court House, 18 km off, in Rossland. They belong to 4 towns, chiefly Rossland, Salmo and Castlegar. The mix: 3 National Historic Sites and 2 heritage railway stations.
The 5 nearest, within 50 km
| Rossland Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1898–1902 · 18 km away, in Rossland |
| Miners' Union HallNational Historic Site · 1898–1899 · 19 km away, in Rossland |
| Burlington Northern Railway Station, Salmo, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1913–1914 · 22 km away, in Salmo |
| Doukhobor Suspension BridgeNational Historic Site · 1913–1914 · 23 km away, in Castlegar |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Nelson, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 45 km away, in Nelson |
New homes are rare in Fruitvale: 1.8% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Half of the homes standing in Fruitvale today were built before 1981. Few of Fruitvale’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 6.4%, the norm 15%. The busiest building years in Fruitvale were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 42% of today’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Fruitvale and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruitvale | 2,068 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary | 2,008 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Montrose | 1,072 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Trail | 8,539 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Warfield | 1,729 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary | 1,432 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Rossland | 4,355 | 2 | 2 | 1898 |
Fruitvale in brief
The pre-1961 share of Fruitvale’s homes is 28%, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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 Fruitvale’s history
How many historic places does Fruitvale have on the registers?
None inside Fruitvale yet. The nearest, Rossland Court House, carries the highest designation, 18 km away in Rossland.
How old are the homes in Fruitvale?
28% predate 1961, where 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).