Photo: Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Cole Harbour and its setting: 97 historic places within 10 km
Homes from before 1961 are 2.9% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. Heritage of the first rank begins 5.5 km away, in Eastern Passage.
41 places of the highest rank within 10 km of Cole Harbour
Between them, 6 towns share them, mainly Schmidtville, North End and Eastern Passage. “Former Hampton Gray Memorial School, Building 14” in Eastern Passage is the nearest, 3 km away. The registers hold 97 within 10 km.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Former Hampton Gray Memorial School, Building 14Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1950–1960 · 3 km away, in Eastern Passage |
| Lower BatteryClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1868–1872 · 6.4 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Stores Building 110 (Carpenter Shop and Smithy)Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1885–1891 · 6.4 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Married Officers Quarters, former Building 125Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1901–1902 · 6.4 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Laboratory, former Building 92Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1885–1891 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Field Forge Storage Building No. 90Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1873–1878 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Guardroom and Prisoners' QuartersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1866–1867 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Artillery Stores, Building 91Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1873–1878 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| North Caponiers, Building 82A & 82BRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1829–1832 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Halifax Defense Complex, Georges Island, Fort Charlotte, South, Southeast and Southwest CaponiersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1866–1868 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Guardhouse / Fire Engine House / Coal Stores, Building 114Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1885 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Georges IslandNational Historic Site · 1749–1750 · 6.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
The 10 km around Cole Harbour keep buildings from as early as 1749
Within 10 km of Cole Harbour but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
Georges Island, in Schmidtville, is the oldest (1749). The chart rests on 95 dated places within 10 km. 44 are older than 1867.
New homes are rare in Cole Harbour: 1.8% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
38% of Cole Harbour’s homes date from 1981 to 2000, well above the typical 23%. Cole Harbour’s largest group of homes, 42%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Count back from today and half of Cole Harbour’s homes are older than 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Cole Harbour and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Harbour | 21,627 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Portland Estates | 10,164 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westphal | 4,201 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Woodlawn | 20,925 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Manor Park | 14,148 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Eastern Passage | 10,745 | 10 | 1 | 1888 |
| Lawrencetown | 3,509 | 0 | 0 | — |
Cole Harbour in brief
Counted by age, only 2.9% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- 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.
- 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 Cole Harbour’s history
How many historic places does Cole Harbour have on the registers?
Not inside Cole Harbour. The closest is Former Hampton Gray Memorial School, Building 14 in Eastern Passage, 3 km away.
How old are the homes in Cole Harbour?
The 2021 Census dates 2.9% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Why might a heritage building in Cole Harbour be missing here?
Provincial and municipal registers outside Québec aren’t open data. Wikidata knows 2 more listings in Cole Harbour, but without an open description or an encyclopedia article they get no page.
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).