Centre sector · Established 1904
Lower Mount Royal
A 0.3 km² inner city community in Calgary’s Centre sector, served by a business improvement area.
About
14% of the ground is under tree canopy and 0% is parkland; canopy is close to the Calgary community median and parkland below it.
Getting around
10 bus stops inside the boundary; no CTrain station.
Parks, paths and trees
1.7 km of bike routes. The city counts 551 public trees here.
When it was built
- 1900s
Established 1904
- 1910s
- Jackson Residence · American Colonial Revival1911
- Mount Royal Block (Demolished - 2004)1911
- Stanley House · Queen Anne Revival1911
- Anderson Apartments · Edwardian Classical1912
- Heeney Residence · Georgian Revival1912
+2 more
- 1920s
- Bank of Nova Scotia - West End Branch · Classic Revival1927
8 resources on the City of Calgary inventory, by construction decade.
Community association
Mount Royal Community Association · 17th Avenue Retail & Entertainment District BIA
Compared with Calgary
- 14%Tree canopyNear city median 14.6%
- 0.2%ParklandBelow city median 11.9%
- 0%Natural areaBelow city median 2%
- 0.0 kmPathways and trailsBelow city median 4.1 km
- 1.7 kmBike routesNear city median 1.7 km
Permits and housing
Building permits
21 building permits, 13 development permits and 1 land-use redesignation in the last twelve months, with a declared building value of $2.7M.
Housing stock
The city lists 1 registered secondary suite and 26 licensed short-term rentals.
Lower Mount Royal — common questions
- Which part of Calgary is Lower Mount Royal in?
- Lower Mount Royal is in the Centre sector of Calgary.
- Is Lower Mount Royal on the CTrain?
- No CTrain station sits inside the Lower Mount Royal boundary; the nearest stations are in neighbouring communities.
- How big is Lower Mount Royal?
- Lower Mount Royal covers about 0.3 square kilometres.
- Which communities border Lower Mount Royal?
- Lower Mount Royal borders Bankview, Beltline, Cliff Bungalow, Sunalta, and Upper Mount Royal.
- Does Lower Mount Royal have a Business Improvement Area?
- Yes — Lower Mount Royal is served by the 17th Avenue Retail & Entertainment District BIA.
- How many historic resources are in Lower Mount Royal?
- Lower Mount Royal has 8 historic resources on the City of Calgary's heritage inventory.
- Is Lower Mount Royal good for walking and cycling?
- Lower Mount Royal has 1.7 km of bike routes.
- What is for sale in Lower Mount Royal?
- Every home for sale in Lower Mount Royal is on the listings map, with prices and photos, scoped to this community.
Sources and notes
- City of Calgary Open Data: community boundaries and classes, permits, parks and off-leash areas, urban forest, pathways and bikeways, historic resources, public art, schools, transit stops, secondary suites, short-term rentals, land supply. Permits, suites and short-term-rental licences refresh daily to weekly.
- https://www.calgary.ca/communities/profiles/lower-mount-royal.html — City of Calgary community profile (Lower Mount Royal)
- https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/pda/pd/documents/heritage-planning/heritage-resources/calgary-mount-royal-garden-part1.pdf — Calgary Mount Royal: A Garden Suburb (City Heritage Planning, 1994)
- https://mrca.ca/ — Mount Royal Community Association (covers both Upper and Lower Mount Royal)
- https://mrca.ca/about/community-history/ — MRCA community history page
- https://mrca.ca/our-community/public-spaces/ — MRCA schools and public spaces
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Royal,_Calgary — Mount Royal, Calgary (Wikipedia overview, history, statistics)
- https://www.heritageinspiresyyc.org/heritage-places/communities-mount-royal/ — Heritage Inspires YYC: Mount Royal heritage homes
- https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=5179 — Devenish Apartments listing (Canadian Register of Historic Places)
- https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0561 — Devenish Apartments (Alberta Register of Historic Places)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_Avenue_SW_(Calgary) — 17 Avenue SW (Wikipedia)
- https://17thave.ca/connect/about-us/ — 17th Ave BIA (Calgary's first BIA, 1984)
- https://www.walkscore.com/CA-AB/Calgary/Lower_Mount_Royal — Walk Score for Lower Mount Royal (Walk Score 88)
- https://www.kyanproperties.com/post/most-walkable-neighbourhoods-calgary — 11 Most Walkable Neighbourhoods in Calgary (LMR ranked 3rd)
- https://www.calgary.ca/parks/tomkins-park.html — Tomkins Park (City of Calgary parks)
- https://calgaryheritage.org/wp/sunshine-and-shadow-in-tomkins-square-park/ — Tomkins Park history (Calgary Heritage Initiative)
- https://fcr.ca/properties/alberta/calgary/mount-royal/mount-royal-village-3/ — Mount Royal Village (First Capital)
- https://earlgrey.cbe.ab.ca/about-us — Earl Grey School (CBE)
- https://westerncanada.cbe.ab.ca/ — Western Canada High School (CBE)
- https://www.calgary.ca/planning/water/lowermountroyalutilities.html — Lower Mount Royal Local Drainage Improvement (City of Calgary)
- https://www.calgary.ca/water/flooding/flood-maps-river-flows.html — City of Calgary flood maps
- https://www.heritagecalgary.ca/explore-inventory — Heritage Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources
- https://www.creb.com/News/CREBNow/2021/March/community_profile_mount_royal/ — CREB Mount Royal community profile