Photo: Ursus sapien · CC BY-SA 4.0History around Port Coquitlam: 21 designated places within 25 km
Before 1961: just 5% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. The nearest town with a top designation is Langley, 19 km away.
21 places on Canada’s registers lie 25 km or less from Port Coquitlam
They stand in 6 towns, Langley, Strathcona and North Vancouver among them. The oldest, Fort Langley, dates from 1839, 17 km away. Among them are 12 provincial or municipal listings, 4 National Historic Sites and 3 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Holy Trinity CathedralListed in a community heritage register · 1902 · 13 km away, in New Westminster |
| Saint Andrew's United ChurchListed in a community heritage register · 17 km away, in Langley |
| Servants' QuartersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1957–1958 · 17 km away, in Langley |
| Fort LangleyNational Historic Site · 1839–1841 · 17 km away, in Langley |
| Big HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1960 · 17 km away, in Langley |
| StorehouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1840–1872 · 17 km away, in Langley |
| Northeast BastionRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1957–1958 · 17 km away, in Langley |
| Hastings ParkProvincially Recognized Heritage Site · 1888 · 20 km away, in Hastings-Sunrise |
| First Church of Christ, ScientistListed in a community heritage register · 1925 · 23 km away, in North Vancouver |
| Victoria ParkListed in a community heritage register · 1905 · 23 km away, in North Vancouver |
| Burrard Dry DockHeritage designation · 24 km away, in North Vancouver |
| Vancouver Japanese Language SchoolNational Historic Site · 1928–1929 · 24 km away, in Strathcona |
The places within 25 km of Port Coquitlam lean to the decades after Confederation
Reaching 25 km out from Port Coquitlam: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
17 places within 25 km have a date. 2 predate Confederation. Oldest of all: Fort Langley, Langley, 1839.
New homes stand out in Port Coquitlam: 7.1% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 19% of Port Coquitlam’s, against 15% in the typical town. The busiest building years in Port Coquitlam were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 41% of today’s homes. Half of the homes standing in Port Coquitlam today were built before 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Port Coquitlam compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 60,900 to 74,700 residents, by places on the registers.
11 of them are ahead. The typical town its size has 2. 5 of them have nothing on the registers.
Port Coquitlam and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Coquitlam | 67,724 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Coquitlam | 173,599 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Port Moody | 38,285 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Fraser Heights | 17,688 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pitt Meadows | 20,892 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Birdland | 10,745 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Port Mann | 5,988 | 0 | 0 | — |
Port Coquitlam in brief
Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 5%, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 2.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Questions about Port Coquitlam’s history
How many historic places does Port Coquitlam have on the registers?
Inside Port Coquitlam, none so far; Holy Trinity Cathedral, 13 km away in New Westminster, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Port Coquitlam?
Before 1961: 5% 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).