Centre sector · Established 1904
Upper Mount Royal
A 1.3 km² inner city community in Calgary’s Centre sector.
About
36% of the ground is under tree canopy and 10% is parkland; canopy is above the Calgary community median and parkland below it.
Getting around
21 bus stops inside the boundary; no CTrain station.
Schools
- Earl Grey School · PublicElementary
- Mount Royal School · PublicJunior High
Parks, paths and trees
1.2 km of pathways and trails and 2.9 km of bike routes. The city counts 2,758 public trees here.
When it was built
- 1900s
Established 1904
- Sayre Estate1905
- Beveridge House · Queen Anne Revival1906
- Irvine House · Craftsman1906
- Brydon House · Vernacular1908
- J.W. Davidson Residence & Coach House · Tudor Revival1909
+2 more
- 1910s
- Stuart Residence · Arts and Crafts1910
- Carleton Plot1911
- Cartier Park1911
- McPhail Residence · Craftsman1911
- South Mount Royal Park1911
+46 more
- 1920s
- King Residence - 1222 Prospect AV SW (Demolished - 2013) · Georgian Revival1926
- Brown Residence · Georgian Revival1927
- MacKenzie Residence · Spanish Colonial Revival1927
- Aikenhead Residence · Classic Revival1929
- Frontenac Avenue SW Boulevards1929
+7 more
- 1930s
- Malden (Link) Residence · American Colonial Revival1930
- Montcalm Crescent SW Boulevard1930
- Montreal Avenue SW Boulevards1930
- Quebec Avenue SW Boulevard1930
- Shaver Residence · Tudor Revival1930
+3 more
- 1940s
- Skaken House · Art Moderne1947
- 1950s
- Dillabough Residence · International1951
- Mire Katchen Residence · International1954
- 1960s
- Earl Grey Elementary School · Modern1968
- 1970s
- Leavitt Residence · Modern1970
- Anderson Residence · Modern1975
84 resources on the City of Calgary inventory, by construction decade.
Public art
- General James Wolfe · John Massey RhindSouth Mount Royal Park (Quebec Avenue by Montcalm Crescent S.W.)
Community association
Compared with Calgary
- 35.9%Tree canopyAbove city median 14.6%
- 10.4%ParklandBelow city median 11.9%
- 3.9%Natural areaAbove city median 2%
- 1.2 kmPathways and trailsBelow city median 4.1 km
- 2.9 kmBike routesAbove city median 1.7 km
Permits and housing
Building permits
39 building permits, 20 development permits and 1 land-use redesignation in the last twelve months, with a declared building value of $7.4M.
Housing stock
The city lists 8 registered secondary suites and 2 licensed short-term rentals.
Upper Mount Royal — common questions
- Which part of Calgary is Upper Mount Royal in?
- Upper Mount Royal is in the Centre sector of Calgary.
- Is Upper Mount Royal on the CTrain?
- No CTrain station sits inside the Upper Mount Royal boundary; the nearest stations are in neighbouring communities.
- What schools are in Upper Mount Royal?
- Upper Mount Royal has 2 schools inside its boundary: Earl Grey School and Mount Royal School.
- How big is Upper Mount Royal?
- Upper Mount Royal covers about 1.3 square kilometres.
- Which communities border Upper Mount Royal?
- Upper Mount Royal borders Bankview, Cliff Bungalow, Elbow Park, Lower Mount Royal, and South Calgary.
- How many historic resources are in Upper Mount Royal?
- Upper Mount Royal has 84 historic resources on the City of Calgary's heritage inventory.
- Is Upper Mount Royal good for walking and cycling?
- Upper Mount Royal has 2.9 km of bike routes and 1.2 km of pathways and trails.
- Does Upper Mount Royal have public art?
- Upper Mount Royal has 1 public artwork.
- What is for sale in Upper Mount Royal?
- Every home for sale in Upper 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/upper-mount-royal.html — City of Calgary community profile (Upper Mount Royal)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Mount_Royal,_Calgary — Upper Mount Royal entry: history, boundaries (17 Ave N, Premier Way/8 St S, 14 St W, Royal Ave/Hope St E), schools
- https://mrca.ca/ — Mount Royal Community Association (covers both Upper and Lower Mount Royal); founded 1934
- https://mrca.ca/about/community-history/ — MRCA community history (American Hill, CPR 1905, Plan 2112AC January 1910, R.B. Bennett, Olmsted)
- https://mrca.ca/facilities/parks-greenspaces/ — MRCA parks inventory (Cartier off-leash, Talon, South Mount Royal, Levis Park)
- https://mrca.ca/event/ — MRCA events calendar (Stampede BBQ, Community Clean Up, skating party, Mini-Mountaineers)
- https://calgarycommunities.com/communities/mount-royal-community-association/ — Federation of Calgary Communities directory listing
- https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/pda/pd/documents/heritage-planning/heritage-resources/calgary-mount-royal-garden-part1.pdf — City of Calgary 1994 'Calgary's Mount Royal: A Garden Suburb' heritage report (Olmsted, Doupe, garden-suburb planning)
- https://everydaytourist.ca/calgary-visitor-information/2014/8/20/9xmo2kp9af0sk9gtgx8lvqvfwqa48a — Everyday Tourist (Richard White) 'Mount Royal: City Beautiful or Man vs Nature' (American Hill, CPR street names — Wolfe, Sydenham, Durham, Champlain, Frontenac, Joliet, Vercheres)
- https://www.creb.com/News/CREBNow/2020/June/my_neighbourhood_mount_royal/ — CREB Now 'My Neighbourhood: Mount Royal'
- https://www.creb.com/News/CREBNow/2021/March/historical_home_spotlight_r_b_bennett_house/ — CREB Now historical spotlight on R.B. Bennett House (1912, 802 Prospect Ave SW, Georgian Revival, Bennett owned 1917-1947 but never lived there)
- https://www.heritagecalgary.ca/explore-inventory — Heritage Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources
- https://www.calgary.ca/arts-culture/heritage-sites/inventory.html — Calgary heritage inventory landing page
- https://maps.calgary.ca/HeritageInventory/ — Calgary Maps heritage inventory map tool
- https://www.heritageinspiresyyc.org/heritage-places/communities-mount-royal/ — Heritage Inspires YYC: Mount Royal community heritage page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Canada_High_School — Western Canada High School (1929, CBE, IB Diploma Programme)
- https://www.cbe.ab.ca/schools/find-a-school/_layouts/15/cbe.service.spm/viewprofile.aspx?id=169&IsDlg=1 — Western Canada High School CBE profile
- https://www.cbe.ab.ca/schools/find-a-school/_layouts/15/cbe.service.spm/viewprofile.aspx?id=143 — Mount Royal School CBE profile
- https://earlgrey.cbe.ab.ca — Earl Grey School official site
- https://www.walkscore.com/CA-AB/Calgary/Upper_Mount_Royal — Walk Score 64 for Upper Mount Royal (17th most walkable in Calgary)
- https://luxuryhomescalgary.ca/neighbourhood/upper-mount-homes-for-sale/ — Mount Royal heritage home count (68 still standing)
- https://royallepagebenchmark.ca/calgary/southwest/upper-mount-royal/ — Royal LePage Benchmark Upper Mount Royal listings (May 2026: 14 active, avg $2,257,914, range $499k-$5.75M, $886/sqft)
- https://www.justinhavre.com/upper-mount-royal-calgary-real-estate.php — Upper Mount Royal market trends (DOM and percent-over-ask aggregator)
- https://wowa.ca/calgary-housing-market — Calgary housing market April 2026 update (detached benchmark $745,400)
- https://www.calgary.ca/water/flooding.html — City of Calgary river flooding overview
- https://maps.calgary.ca/riverflooding/ — Calgary regulatory river flooding interactive map
- https://www.alberta.ca/final-flood-maps — Alberta Flood Hazard Area maps (updated May 2025)
- https://17thave.ca/ — 17 Avenue Retail and Entertainment District BIA (Calgary's first BIA, founded 1984)
- https://fcr.ca/properties/alberta/calgary/mount-royal/mount-royal-block/ — Mount Royal Block retail centre (17 Ave SW, anchored by Shoppers Drug Mart)
- https://www.calgary.ca/parks-rec-programs/at-home/park-of-the-week-reader-rock-garden.html — Reader Rock Garden park profile (named for William Reader)
- https://www.visitcalgary.com/things-to-do/parks-and-recreation/parks/reader-rock-garden — Tourism Calgary Reader Rock Garden (1.65 ha, National Historic Site)