Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0In Mayfair, 54% of homes go back before 1961
Against 18% in the typical town, Mayfair has 3.1 times the share. Within 5 km of Mayfair there are 18 designated places; Next of Kin Memorial Avenue, at 1 km, is the closest. For the highest designations, the closest town is Caswell Hill, 900 m off.
Within 5 km of Mayfair, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
The area, not the town: places within 5 km of Mayfair, dated by the first construction year on their records.
The earliest is Marr Residence in Buena Vista, begun in 1884. 17 places within 5 km carry a construction date.
Leave Mayfair and the first historic place is Next of Kin Memorial Avenue, 1 km away
All told, 18 places are within 5 km. Their towns number 9: Central Business District, Buena Vista and Haultain first. The earliest date is Marr Residence’s, 1884, 3.1 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Next of Kin Memorial AvenueNational Historic Site · 1922–1924 · 1 km away, in North Park |
| Saskatoon Railway Station (Canadian Pacific)National Historic Site · 1907–1909 · 1.5 km away, in Caswell Hill |
| Fairbanks-Morse WarehouseMunicipal heritage property · 1911 · 1.6 km away, in Central Business District |
| Landa ResidenceMunicipal heritage property · 1913 · 2.1 km away, in Pleasant Hill |
| Hutchinson BuildingMunicipal heritage property · 1923 · 2.1 km away, in Central Business District |
| Cathedral of St. John the EvangelistMunicipal heritage property · 1917 · 2.1 km away, in Central Business District |
| Land Titles BuildingProvincial heritage property · 1910 · 2.3 km away, in Central Business District |
| Sommerville/Petitt HouseMunicipal heritage property · 1912 · 2.8 km away, in Central Business District |
| Victoria SchoolMunicipal heritage property · 1888 · 2.8 km away, in Grosvenor Park |
| College BuildingNational Historic Site · 1910–1913 · 3 km away, in Grosvenor Park |
| Marr ResidenceMunicipal heritage property · 1884 · 3.1 km away, in Buena Vista |
| Arrand BlockMunicipal heritage property · 1912 · 3.2 km away, in Buena Vista |
Little new building in Mayfair: 3.2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 8% of Mayfair’s, against 15% in the typical town. Mayfair built little from 1981 to 2000: 6.8% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Count back from today and half of Mayfair’s homes are older than 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 Mayfair compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,900 to 2,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Scott and Dégelis have more. Their median is 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Mayfair and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfair | 2,927 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Caswell Hill | 2,573 | 1 | 1 | 1907 |
| City Park | 3,827 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mount Royal | 5,292 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westmount | 2,872 | 0 | 0 | — |
| North Park | 5,000 | 1 | 1 | 1922 |
| Central Business District | 4,987 | 5 | 0 | 1910 |
Mayfair in brief
Older stock first: 54% of homes in Mayfair were standing by 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
Questions about Mayfair’s history
How many historic places does Mayfair have on the registers?
Nothing inside Mayfair; Next of Kin Memorial Avenue in North Park, 1 km away, is the nearest and of the highest rank.
How old are the homes in Mayfair?
54% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).