Photo: Straitgate · CC BY-SA 3.0Within 50 km of Harrison Hot Springs, 7 places are on the heritage registers
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 6.8%. Chilliwack, 21 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
7 places on Canada’s registers lie 50 km or less from Harrison Hot Springs
The nearest is Kilby Provincial Park, 14 km away in Kent. They belong to 5 towns, chiefly Hope, Mission and Kent. Oldest of them is Fort Hope (1848), 26 km off.
The 7 nearest, within 50 km
| Kilby Provincial ParkBritish Columbia designated provincial heritage site · 1973 · 14 km away, in Kent |
| Chilliwack City HallNational Historic Site · 1910–1913 · 19 km away, in Chilliwack |
| Fort HopeNational Historic Site · 1848 · 26 km away, in Hope |
| Christ ChurchNational Historic Site · 1861–1862 · 26 km away, in Hope |
| Xá:ytem / Hatzic RockNational Historic Site · 38 km away, in Mission |
| Stave Falls Hydro-Electric InstallationNational Historic Site · 1909–1913 · 42 km away, in Mission |
| Abbotsford Sikh TempleNational Historic Site · 1910–1913 · 47 km away, in Abbotsford |
From 1848 on: the dated places within 50 km of Harrison Hot Springs
The area here stretches to 50 km around Harrison Hot Springs: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
Dated places within 50 km: 6. 2 are older than 1867. Fort Hope, in Hope, goes back furthest, to 1848.
Harrison Hot Springs is still building: 15% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Harrison Hot Springs has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 49%, where most towns have 23%. Few of Harrison Hot Springs’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 11%, the norm 27%. Over half of the homes in Harrison Hot Springs were already standing by 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Harrison Hot Springs and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Hot Springs | 2,148 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Kent | 7,093 | 1 | 0 | 1973 |
| Rosedale | 2,401 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley | 1,155 | 0 | 0 | — |
Harrison Hot Springs in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 6.8% of the total, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
Questions about Harrison Hot Springs’s history
How many historic places does Harrison Hot Springs have on the registers?
Not inside Harrison Hot Springs. The closest is Kilby Provincial Park in Kent, 14 km away.
How old are the homes in Harrison Hot Springs?
Before 1961: 6.8% 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).