TopNational Historic Site · 1830AfricvilleAfricville ParkPhoto: Letterofmarque · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Windsor Park · Canada’s heritage registers
Before 1961: 45% of the homes in Windsor Park
The typical town has 18%: Windsor Park has 2.6 times the share. Inside the town there is 1 historic place, a top designation. Measured against its size, 0.8 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 77% of Canadian towns. It is Africville, a national historic site begun in 1830.
Historic places
1
0.8 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1830
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
45%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Landmarks of Windsor Park
One place in Windsor Park is on the registers, and this is it: Africville.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The map
Where Windsor Park’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
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.
Highest designations
The highest rank in Windsor Park: one place
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
80 designated places lie within 5 km of Windsor Park
Closest of all is Halifax Forum, in North End, 900 m off. Of 37 top designations nearby, Hydrostone District is the closest, at 1 km. D'Anville's Encampment, 3.1 km off, is the oldest: 1746.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Halifax ForumMunicipally Registered Property · 1927 · 900 m away, in North End |
| Hydrostone DistrictNational Historic Site · 1917 · 1 km away, in North End |
| Wellington HouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1852–1861 · 1.4 km away, in North End |
| Carall Building S-17Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1941–1945 · 1.4 km away, in North End |
| Murray Building (S-15)Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1941–1944 · 1.5 km away, in North End |
| Currie Building, S37Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1942–1943 · 1.5 km away, in North End |
| Admiralty HouseNational Historic Site · 1815–1820 · 1.5 km away, in North End |
| Lorne TerraceRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1900–1901 · 1.7 km away, in North End |
| Building No. 4Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1916–1917 · 1.9 km away, in Austinville |
| Jonathan McCully HouseNational Historic Site · 1856 · 2 km away, in North End |
| Little Dutch (Deutsch) ChurchNational Historic Site · 1756–1761 · 2.2 km away, in North End |
| Halifax Drill HallNational Historic Site · 1895–1900 · 2.3 km away, in North End |
Homes by age
Only 0.3% of Windsor Park’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Windsor Park built little from 1981 to 2000: 16% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Few of Windsor Park’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 6.4%, the norm 15%. More than half of Windsor Park’s housing predates 1981.
45%
Before 1961
30%
1961–80
16%
1981–2000
6.4%
2001–15
0.3%
2016–21
Windsor 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
Windsor Park has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 13,000 to 13,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Windsor Park1
Just these have more: Centre-Ville and Centre-Nord (Montréal-Nord). The middle one has 0. 12 of them have none.
Neighbours
Windsor Park and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Park | 13,044 | 1 | 1 | 1830 |
| North End | 19,733 | 14 | 7 | 1756 |
| Fairview | 16,296 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westmount | 23,207 | 1 | 0 | 1917 |
| Austinville | 28,021 | 3 | 0 | 1786 |
| Mount Royale | 9,340 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Schmidtville | 18,105 | 53 | 23 | 1749 |
In brief
Windsor Park in brief
In Windsor Park, 45% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, Africville among them. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. The rest is about typical: George Dixon (1870) and Edith Hester McDonald-Brown (1886) are its people of the past on the record; and its designation dates from 1997.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- 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. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
Questions about Windsor Park’s history
How old are the homes in Windsor Park?
45% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Windsor Park have the highest designation?
Africville.
What is the oldest building in Windsor Park?
By its record, Africville, from 1830 (National Historic Site).
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).