Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Beyond Portland Estates’s limits, 43 historic places within 5 km
Before 1961: just 4.2% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. Look 5.1 km away, to Schmidtville, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
Leave Portland Estates and the first historic place is “Former Hampton Gray Memorial School, Building 14”, 3 km away
43 places lie within 5 km. Their towns number 4: Schmidtville, Austinville and Eastern Passage first. For the highest designations, the nearest of 19 is Lower Battery, 3.9 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Former Hampton Gray Memorial School, Building 14Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1950–1960 · 3 km away, in Eastern Passage |
| Greenvale SchoolMunicipally Registered Property · 1915 · 3.8 km away, in Austinville |
| Former Stores Building 110 (Carpenter Shop and Smithy)Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1885–1891 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Married Officers Quarters, former Building 125Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1901–1902 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Lower BatteryClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1868–1872 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Laboratory, former Building 92Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1885–1891 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Field Forge Storage Building No. 90Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1873–1878 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Guardroom and Prisoners' QuartersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1866–1867 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Artillery Stores, Building 91Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1873–1878 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| North Caponiers, Building 82A & 82BRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1829–1832 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Halifax Defense Complex, Georges Island, Fort Charlotte, South, Southeast and Southwest CaponiersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1866–1868 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Former Guardhouse / Fire Engine House / Coal Stores, Building 114Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1885 · 3.9 km away, in Schmidtville |
Around Portland Estates, within 5 km, the dated heritage reaches back to 1749
Places near Portland Estates (within 5 km, outside the town), each by the first construction date it records.
First by date comes Georges Island in Schmidtville, from 1749. The bars count 42 dated places within 5 km. 20 predate Confederation.
A growing town: 7.3% of Portland Estates’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
50% of Portland Estates’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Portland Estates built little from 1961 to 1980: 8.2% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 28% of Portland Estates’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.
How Portland Estates compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,100 to 10,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Du Parc, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury and Leeds and the Thousand Islands. Their median is 0. 13 of them have none.
Portland Estates and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Estates | 10,164 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Manor Park | 14,148 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cole Harbour | 21,627 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Woodlawn | 20,925 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westphal | 4,201 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Schmidtville | 18,105 | 53 | 23 | 1749 |
| Austinville | 28,021 | 3 | 0 | 1786 |
Portland Estates in brief
Counted by age, only 4.2% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Portland Estates’s history
How many historic places does Portland Estates have on the registers?
Inside Portland Estates, none so far; Former Hampton Gray Memorial School, Building 14, 3 km away in Eastern Passage, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Portland Estates?
4.2% 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).