Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Heritage within reach of Crescent Heights: 8 places, 25 km or closer
Before 1961: just 9.3% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Langley, 19 km off.
Top-ranked heritage near Crescent Heights: 2 places within 25 km
Among them are 4 provincial or municipal listings, 2 National Historic Sites and 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Nearest comes Peace Arch, 9.3 km off, in Douglas. Oldest of them is Fort Langley (1839), 25 km off.
The 8 nearest, within 25 km
| Peace ArchNational Register of Historic Places listed place · 1921 · 9.3 km away, in Douglas |
| Holy Trinity CathedralListed in a community heritage register · 1902 · 18 km away, in New Westminster |
| Britannia ShipyardNational Historic Site · 1890–1956 · 24 km away, in Richmond |
| Saint Andrew's United ChurchListed in a community heritage register · 24 km away, in Langley |
| Minoru ChapelHeritage designation · 25 km away, in Richmond |
| Big HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1960 · 25 km away, in Langley |
| Servants' QuartersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1957–1958 · 25 km away, in Langley |
| Fort LangleyNational Historic Site · 1839–1841 · 25 km away, in Langley |
Within 25 km of Crescent Heights, the oldest record dates from 1839
The area here stretches to 25 km around Crescent Heights: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
The chart rests on 6 dated places within 25 km. One predates Confederation. First by date comes Fort Langley in Langley, from 1839.
Crescent Heights built the most from 1981 to 2000, 38% of today’s homes
From 2016 to 2021 Crescent Heights added 5.7% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Crescent Heights’s homes are older than 2001. 28% of Crescent Heights’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 Crescent Heights compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 9,000 to 9,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Chelsea, Coaticook and Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval have more. The typical town its size has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Crescent Heights and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent Heights | 9,033 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ocean Park | 10,845 | 0 | 0 | — |
| South Surrey | 6,431 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Anderson Walk | 4,210 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Semiahmoo Town Centre | 13,381 | 0 | 0 | — |
| White Rock | 25,057 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sunnyside | 16,784 | 0 | 0 | — |
Crescent Heights in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 9.3% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Crescent Heights’s history
How many historic places does Crescent Heights have on the registers?
Inside Crescent Heights, none so far; Peace Arch, 9.3 km away in Douglas, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Crescent Heights?
9.3% 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).