Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Forest Heights and its setting: 12 historic places within 10 km
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 2.2%. The closest top-tier heritage is in Victoria Park, 3.9 km from here.
Within 10 km of Forest Heights: 12 places on the registers
They are 6 provincial or municipal listings, 3 National Historic Sites and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. The nearest is Joseph Schneider Haus, 4.2 km away in Victoria Park. Between them, 7 towns share them, mainly Waterloo, City Commercial Core and Pioneer Tower West.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Joseph Schneider HausNational Historic Site · 1816–1817 · 4.2 km away, in Victoria Park |
| Erb-Kumpf HouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 4.7 km away, in Waterloo |
| The Walper HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1893 · 4.9 km away, in City Commercial Core |
| Federal BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1937–1939 · 5.1 km away, in City Commercial Core |
| Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail) Station, Kitchener, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1897–1898 · 5.2 km away, in Mt. Hope Huron Park |
| Elizabeth Ziegler Public SchoolDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1931 · 5.2 km away, in Waterloo |
| Huether HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 5.2 km away, in Waterloo |
| Waterloo County GaolDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1853 · 5.3 km away, in Central Frederick |
| Brubacher HouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1850 · 6.3 km away, in Waterloo |
| WoodsideNational Historic Site · 1853–1854 · 6.5 km away, in Bridgeport East |
| Homer Watson HouseNational Historic Site · 1834–1835 · 9.9 km away, in Pioneer Tower West |
| Waterloo Pioneer Memorial TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1925–1927 · 9.9 km away, in Pioneer Tower West |
Within 10 km of Forest Heights, the record goes back to 1816
Each historic place within 10 km of Forest Heights, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
Within 10 km, 10 records give a date. Before Confederation: 5. Joseph Schneider Haus, in Victoria Park, goes back furthest, to 1816.
Only 0.8% of Forest Heights’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Forest Heights has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 44%, where most towns have 23%. Few of Forest Heights’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 0.5%, the norm 15%. 51% of Forest Heights’s homes date from 1961 to 1980, well above the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Forest Heights and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Heights | 14,369 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Highland West | 12,476 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forest Hill | 5,760 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Victoria Hills | 10,760 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Laurentian West | 16,857 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Meinzinger Park-Lakeside | 5,007 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Laurentian Hills | 10,026 | 0 | 0 | — |
Forest Heights in brief
Few of its homes are old, 2.2% 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
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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 Forest Heights’s history
How many historic places does Forest Heights have on the registers?
None inside Forest Heights yet. The nearest, Joseph Schneider Haus, carries the highest designation, 4.2 km away in Victoria Park.
How old are the homes in Forest Heights?
2.2% 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).