Photo: Paulo O from Halifax, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around Woodlawn, 89 historic places within 10 km
Heritage of the first rank begins 6.1 km from Woodlawn, in North End. Homes from 2016 to 2021 make up 0.9% of the stock; the typical town has 4.1%.
Top-ranked heritage near Woodlawn: 40 places within 10 km
Between them, 8 towns share them, mainly Schmidtville, North End and Eastern Passage. Count to 10 km and there are 89. The nearest is Greenvale School, 3.5 km away in Austinville.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Greenvale SchoolMunicipally Registered Property · 1915 · 3.5 km away, in Austinville |
| Quaker Whaler HouseMunicipally Registered Property · 1786 · 3.9 km away, in Austinville |
| Building No. 4Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1916–1917 · 5.2 km away, in Austinville |
| Halifax DockyardNational Historic Site · 1758–1759 · 5.3 km away, in North End |
| Dockyard TerraceRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1815–1816 · 5.4 km away, in North End |
| Halifax Waterfront BuildingsNational Historic Site · 1815–1906 · 5.5 km away, in Schmidtville |
| P. Martin Liquors BuildingMunicipally Registered Property · 5.6 km away, in Schmidtville |
| S.S. AcadiaNational Historic Site · 1913 · 5.6 km away, in Schmidtville |
| HMCS SackvilleNational Historic Site · 1941–1942 · 5.6 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Granville BlockNational Historic Site · 1860–1905 · 5.6 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Cast Iron Façade / Coomb's Old English Shoe StoreNational Historic Site · 1860–1861 · 5.6 km away, in Schmidtville |
| Dominion Public BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1936 · 5.7 km away, in Schmidtville |
Around Woodlawn, within 10 km, the dated heritage reaches back to 1746
Within 10 km of Woodlawn but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
D'Anville's Encampment, in Clayton Park West, is the oldest (1746). 88 dated places within 10 km make up the record. Before Confederation: 45.
Most of Woodlawn’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 43%
32% of Woodlawn’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, more than the typical town’s 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 6.4% of Woodlawn’s, against 15% in the typical town. Like the typical town (18%), Woodlawn has 16% of its homes from before 1961.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Woodlawn compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 20,700 to 21,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures and Sturgeon County. The middle one has 0. For 14, the registers list nothing.
Woodlawn and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodlawn | 20,925 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Manor Park | 14,148 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Portland Estates | 10,164 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westphal | 4,201 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Austinville | 28,021 | 3 | 0 | 1786 |
| Cole Harbour | 21,627 | 0 | 0 | — |
| North End | 19,733 | 14 | 7 | 1756 |
Woodlawn in brief
Its housing is young: only 16% predates 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
- 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, 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 federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Woodlawn’s history
How many historic places does Woodlawn have on the registers?
None within Woodlawn itself; the nearest is 3.5 km off: Greenvale School, in Austinville.
How old are the homes in Woodlawn?
The 2021 Census dates 16% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).