LocalListed in a community heritage register · 1969Bloedel ConservatoryPhoto: Sporkist/Taz ( ) · CC BY 2.0 · Commons file
Bloedel Conservatory · Photo: Sporkist/Taz ( ) · CC BY 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Riley Park · Canada’s heritage registers
The registers record 1 historic place in Riley Park
The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Riley Park has 35%. It is Bloedel Conservatory, a listed in a community heritage register begun in 1969. Scaled to its population, Riley Park’s 0.4 per 10,000 residents beats 73% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
0.4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1969
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
35%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Riley Park’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Riley Park: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Riley Park’s area holds 8 top-tier places within 5 km
The record reaches back to 1880 with Vancouver's Chinatown, 3.7 km away. They belong to 7 towns, chiefly Yaletown, Granville Entertainment District and Strathcona. All told, 27 places are within 5 km.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Canadian National Railways / VIA Rail Station, Vancouver, British ColumbiaHeritage Railway Station · 1917–1918 · 3 km away, in Strathcona |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1899–1903 · 3.6 km away, in Yaletown |
| Vancouver's ChinatownNational Historic Site · 1880–2003 · 3.7 km away, in Strathcona |
| Kuomintang BuildingHeritage designation · 3.7 km away, in Strathcona |
| Sam Kee BuildingHeritage designation · 1913 · 3.7 km away, in Yaletown |
| Queen Elizabeth TheatreListed in a community heritage register · 3.8 km away, in Yaletown |
| Carnegie Community CentreHeritage designation · 3.8 km away, in Yaletown |
| Sun TowerHeritage designation · 1912 · 3.8 km away, in Yaletown |
| Pantages TheatreListed in a community heritage register · 1907 · 3.8 km away, in Yaletown |
| Vogue TheatreNational Historic Site · 1940–1942 · 3.8 km away, in Granville Entertainment District |
| Ovaltine CafeListed in a community heritage register · 1912 · 3.8 km away, in Strathcona |
| Orpheum TheatreNational Historic Site · 1926–1928 · 3.8 km away, in Granville Entertainment District |
Homes by age
14% of Riley Park’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Count back from today and half of Riley Park’s homes are older than 2001. Riley Park built little from 1961 to 1980: 14% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 22% of Riley Park’s, about the typical 23%.
35%
Before 1961
14%
1961–80
22%
1981–2000
14%
2001–15
14%
2016–21
Riley ParkTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Riley Park has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 23,400 to 24,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Riley Park1
Just one has more: Brockville. Their median is 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Riley Park and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riley Park | 23,682 | 1 | 0 | 1969 |
| South Cambie | 9,846 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Little Saigon | 11,086 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mount Pleasant | 37,091 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Shaughnessy | 8,034 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Kensington-Cedar Cottage | 39,668 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Oakridge | 14,071 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Riley Park in brief
Older stock first: 35% of homes in Riley Park were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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 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.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
Questions about Riley Park’s history
How many historic places does Riley Park have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Riley Park.
How old are the homes in Riley Park?
35% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
What is the oldest building in Riley Park?
Bloedel Conservatory (Listed in a community heritage register): the first construction date on its record is 1969.
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).