Photo: Kiwibirdman · CC BY 3.0Around Highlands, 91 historic places within 25 km
Homes from before 1961 are 4% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. The closest top-tier heritage is in Central Saanich, 7.5 km from here.
91 historic places within 25 km of Highlands
Tod Inlet in Juan de Fuca (Part 1) is the nearest, 4.2 km away. They are 56 provincial or municipal listings, 30 National Historic Sites and 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Of 32 top designations nearby, Butchart Gardens is the closest, at 4.7 km.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Tod InletProvincially Recognized Heritage Site · 4.2 km away, in Juan de Fuca (Part 1) |
| Butchart GardensNational Historic Site · 1904–1940 · 4.7 km away, in Central Saanich |
| Dominion Astrophysical ObservatoryNational Historic Site · 1914–1919 · 7.3 km away, in Saanich |
| Craigflower Manor HouseNational Historic Site · 1853–1857 · 11 km away, in View Royal |
| Craigflower SchoolhouseNational Historic Site · 1854–1856 · 11 km away, in Saanich |
| Grant Block, Building 24Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1942–1943 · 11 km away, in Colwood |
| Hatley Park / Former Royal Roads Military CollegeNational Historic Site · 1908–1914 · 12 km away, in Colwood |
| Guardhouse, Upper BatteryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1895–1899 · 12 km away, in Colwood |
| Gun Emplacement and Magazine, Upper BatteryClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1895–1899 · 12 km away, in Colwood |
| Fort Rodd HillNational Historic Site · 1895–1898 · 12 km away, in Colwood |
| Gun Emplacement and Magazine, Lower BatteryClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1895–1899 · 12 km away, in Colwood |
| Fisgard LighthouseNational Historic Site · 1859–1861 · 13 km away, in Colwood |
Within 25 km of Highlands, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Reaching 25 km out from Highlands: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
The oldest is Fort Victoria in Victoria, from 1843. Within 25 km, 59 records give a date. 9 are older than 1867.
Highlands is still building: 7% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Only 21% of Highlands’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 45% of Highlands’s, against 23% in the typical town. Highlands has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 24%, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Highlands compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,700 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Victoria County, Subdivision A, Little Current and Wakefield. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Highlands and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands | 2,753 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Central Saanich | 18,184 | 1 | 1 | 1904 |
| Langford | 59,664 | 0 | 0 | — |
| View Royal | 12,795 | 1 | 1 | 1853 |
| East Saanich 2 | 1,962 | 0 | 0 | — |
| New Songhees 1A | 2,052 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley | 5,156 | 0 | 0 | — |
Highlands in brief
Before 1961: just 4% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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 grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
Questions about Highlands’s history
How many historic places does Highlands have on the registers?
None within Highlands itself; the nearest is 4.2 km off: Tod Inlet, in Juan de Fuca (Part 1).
How old are the homes in Highlands?
The 2021 Census dates 4% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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).