Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainWithin 10 km of Crossroads, 13 places are on the heritage registers
Heritage of the first rank begins 9 km from Crossroads, in Charlottetown. One more place on a provincial or local list is counted from Wikidata without a page.
Crossroads’s area holds 10 top-tier places within 10 km
The earliest date is Ravenwood House #5’s, 1820, 8.3 km away. Great George Street Historic District in Charlottetown is the nearest, 8 km away. Among them are 10 National Historic Sites, a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a provincial or municipal listing.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Great George Street Historic DistrictNational Historic Site · 1864 · 8 km away, in Charlottetown |
| St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic BasilicaNational Historic Site · 1896–1908 · 8 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Province HouseNational Historic Site · 1839–1848 · 8.1 km away, in Charlottetown |
| ArdgowanNational Historic Site · 1850–1851 · 8.1 km away, in Charlottetown |
| FairholmNational Historic Site · 1839–1840 · 8.1 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Apothecaries HallNational Historic Site · 1900–1901 · 8.2 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Dundas TerraceNational Historic Site · 1889–1890 · 8.2 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Ravenwood House #5Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1820–1829 · 8.3 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Charlottetown City HallNational Historic Site · 1888–1889 · 8.3 km away, in Charlottetown |
| All Souls ChapelNational Historic Site · 1888–1889 · 8.6 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Government HouseNational Historic Site · 1833–1835 · 8.9 km away, in Charlottetown |
| Victoria ParkHeritage resource · 1873 · 9.2 km away, in Charlottetown |
The 10 km around Crossroads keep buildings from as early as 1820
The historic places within 10 km of Crossroads, not in it, by the first construction date on each record.
The chart rests on 13 dated places within 10 km. 6 go back before 1867. The earliest is Ravenwood House #5 in Charlottetown, begun in 1820.
11% of Crossroads’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Like the typical town (18%), Crossroads has 15% of its homes from before 1961. 29% of Crossroads’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Crossroads built little from 1961 to 1980: 19% of its homes, where most towns have 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Crossroads and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads | 2,366 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stratford | 13,152 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Charlottetown | 48,118 | 14 | 11 | 1820 |
| North Shore | 1,609 | 0 | 0 | — |
| East River, Part 1 | 2,657 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Vernon River | 2,779 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cornwall | 7,920 | 0 | 0 | — |
Crossroads in brief
Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 15%, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: one person of its past, Mary Mellish (1849).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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 tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
Questions about Crossroads’s history
How many historic places does Crossroads have on the registers?
Not within Crossroads. Its nearest is a top designation: Great George Street Historic District, 8 km away in Charlottetown.
How old are the homes in Crossroads?
15% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in Crossroads be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Crossroads is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).