Photo: Suburban Rapid Transit Co. via Winnipeg Electric Co. · Public domainHeadingley’s surroundings: 39 historic places within 25 km
Its housing is mostly newer: 7.3% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Heritage of the first rank begins 16 km away, in Crescentwood. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from 1880, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding.
The old face of Headingley
The past in one picture: one old photograph of the town. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1927Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
24 places of national importance within 25 km of Headingley
Their towns number 20: North St. Boniface, Broadway-Assiniboine and South Portage first. Assiniboine Park Pavilion in Old Tuxedo is the nearest, 11 km away. The record reaches back to 1738 with “Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar”, 18 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Assiniboine Park PavilionListed historical resource · 11 km away, in Old Tuxedo |
| Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, Winnipeg, ManitobaHeritage Railway Station · 1910–1911 · 13 km away, in Rosser |
| Minto ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1914–1916 · 15 km away, in Minto |
| Westminster United ChurchProvincial heritage site · 16 km away, in Wolseley |
| Cornish LibraryListed historical resource · 16 km away, in Crescentwood |
| Ralph Connor HouseNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 16 km away, in Crescentwood |
| Granite Curling ClubListed historical resource · 1880 · 17 km away, in West Broadway |
| Roslyn Court ApartmentsNational Historic Site · 1909–1910 · 17 km away, in River-Osborne |
| Manitoba Legislative BuildingProvincial heritage site · 1920 · 17 km away, in Broadway-Assiniboine |
| Winnipeg Law CourtsNational Historic Site · 1912–1917 · 17 km away, in Broadway-Assiniboine |
| DalnavertNational Historic Site · 1895–1896 · 17 km away, in Broadway-Assiniboine |
| Metropolitan TheatreNational Historic Site · 1919–1920 · 17 km away, in South Portage |
Within 25 km of Headingley, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Places as far as 25 km from Headingley, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Within 25 km, building dates exist for 33 places. 3 predate Confederation. The earliest is “Forts Rouge, Garry and Gibraltar” in Broadway-Assiniboine, begun in 1738.
A growing town: 17% of Headingley’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Headingley built little from 1961 to 1980: 13% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. 43% of Headingley’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 19% of Headingley’s, about the typical 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Headingley and its neighbours
Headingley in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 7.3% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed; and its past has one life on the record, Hugh Clifford Dunfield (1891).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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. 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 Headingley’s history
How many historic places does Headingley have on the registers?
Not inside Headingley. The closest is Assiniboine Park Pavilion in Old Tuxedo, 11 km away.
When did Headingley become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Headingley to 1880. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Headingley?
Before 1961: 7.3% 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).