Older housing stands out in Al Ritchie: 50% predates 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Al Ritchie has 2.9 times as much. Hotel Saskatchewan, 2.2 km from Al Ritchie, heads a list of 7 historic places within 5 km. The nearest town with a top designation is Hillsdale, 3.6 km away.
The places within 5 km of Al Ritchie lean to the decades after Confederation
Each historic place within 5 km of Al Ritchie, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
Oldest of all: Government House, McNab, 1889. The chart rests on 6 dated places within 5 km.
2 places of the highest rank within 5 km of Al Ritchie
They belong to 4 towns, chiefly Downtown, Hillsdale and Dewdney Place. Government House, 5 km off, is the oldest: 1889. Count to 5 km and there are 7.
The 7 nearest, within 5 km
| Hotel SaskatchewanMunicipal heritage property · 2.2 km away, in Downtown |
| Prince Edward BuildingMunicipal heritage property · 1907 · 2.3 km away, in Downtown |
| Former Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Regina, SaskatchewanHeritage Railway Station · 1911–1914 · 2.3 km away, in Downtown |
| Knox-Metropolitan United ChurchMunicipal heritage property · 1907 · 2.5 km away, in Downtown |
| Saskatchewan Legislative Building and GroundsNational Historic Site · 1908–1913 · 2.8 km away, in Hillsdale |
| Albert Memorial BridgeMunicipal heritage property · 1930 · 2.8 km away, in Dewdney Place |
| Government HouseNational Historic Site · 1889–1892 · 5 km away, in McNab |
50% of Al Ritchie’s homes were built before 1961
Al Ritchie built little from 2001 to 2015: 5.6% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 8.9% of Al Ritchie’s, against 23% in the typical town. From 2016 on, Al Ritchie built 3.7% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Al Ritchie compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,000 to 8,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Lincoln, Otonabee-South Monaghan and Wolseley. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Al Ritchie and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Ritchie | 8,087 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Boothill | 2,613 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Heritage | 5,172 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dewdney Place | 3,021 | 1 | 0 | 1930 |
| Downtown | 4,282 | 4 | 0 | 1907 |
| Dewdney East | 18,670 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cathedral Village | 7,311 | 0 | 0 | — |
Al Ritchie in brief
Before 1961: 50% of Al Ritchie’s homes, 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
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Al Ritchie’s history
How many historic places does Al Ritchie have on the registers?
None within Al Ritchie itself; the nearest is 2.2 km off: Hotel Saskatchewan, in Downtown.
How old are the homes in Al Ritchie?
50% 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).