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Canada Life Assurance Building

Office · building · built 1958 · 301 8 Ave SW

LiDAR roof height—

Storey-equivalent (derived)—

Footprint0 m²

Parcel622 m²

Year built (roll)1958

Assessed 2026$4.2M

Structures on parcel0

Nearest CTrain144 m

Civic address: 301 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Community: Downtown Commercial Core (DNC)
City sub-property use: C101 Office · all Office sites
Land use district: DC — Direct Control (Direct Control)
Height rank: —
Site coverage: 0% of parcel under LiDAR footprints
Parcel pieces: 1 titled piece · roll 068109305
Coordinates: 51.045484, -114.068278

Massing and site plan

Left: isometric massing of every LiDAR structure on the parcel, at true scale, viewed from the south-west with 3.9 m storey lines. Right: plan of the parcel with surrounding footprints, Plus 15 walkways and nearby stations. Open this building in the 3D city →

No LiDAR structure attributed to this parcel.

Context within 150 m. Grey footprints darken with height; lime is the Plus 15 network.

Access

Public-geometry tests only; confirm routes, entrances and hours with the building.

CTrain

Nearest station: 3rd Street SW, 144 m straight-line (route 201/202). Planned Green Line station 7 Avenue SW is 183 m away (Downtown Segment, per the City’s Green Line map).

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Plus 15

The nearest Plus 15 segment is 13 m from the parcel boundary; the parcel itself is not touched by the network geometry.

Heritage inventory

The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources records the following on this parcel.

Canada Life Assurance (Hollinsworth) Building

Construction year: 1912
Architect: Brown and Valance
Builder: Unknown
Style: Edwardian Commercial
Typology: Office
Development era: 1906 to 1913 (Pre WWI Boom, Age of Optimism)
Designation: Inventory listing only

The terra-cotta clad Hollinsworth Building is the only remaining example in Alberta of the work of Montreal Architects Brown and Vallance, and perhaps the best expression in Calgary's early buildings of the Edwardian Commercial style and the influence of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan. The facade features emphasize the building's vertical thrust. The windows are contained with tall, round-headed arches which rise almost the full height of the building. These arches are set apart from the surrounding wall by the use of a different coloured terra-cotta. The frieze is articulated by elegant brackets. The facade rests on a string course which separates the ground storey from the floors above. All contribute to an excellence of design, style and detail.

Canada Life erected the building in 1912, and remained here for many years. In 1978, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce acquired it as

Source: The City of Calgary Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources, entry 396.

Named building record

Public-domain building facts from Wikidata attached by location. Where a stated height differs from the LiDAR roof, the difference usually reflects spires, screens or datum.

Name: Canada Life Assurance Building
Description: office building in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Identifier: Wikidata Q33212572 (CC0)

Assessment history

Assessed values are The City of Calgary’s taxation figures by roll year, not sale prices or rents; Alberta does not publish transaction prices.

Roll 068109305 · Office

Published values by roll year

Roll year	Assessed value	Change
2005	$5.2M	—
2006	$6.4M	22.1%
2007	$9.2M	44.7%
2008	$16.6M	80.4%
2009	$23.2M	39.6%
2010	$16.6M	-28.4%
2011	$11.3M	-31.9%
2012	$12.1M	6.8%
2013	$16.7M	38.1%
2014	$20.4M	22.4%
2015	$21.6M	5.9%
2016	$18.4M	-14.9%
2017	$14.6M	-20.5%
2018	$10.8M	-25.9%
2019	$5.7M	-47.6%
2020	$6.0M	4.8%
2021	$5.1M	-13.6%
2022	$4.3M	-16.9%
2023	$3.9M	-8.7%
2024	$4.3M	10.5%
2025	$4.2M	-3.7%
2026	$4.2M	0.0%

Development and building permits

Applications the City has located on this parcel since 2012, from the Development Permits and Building Permits datasets.

Recent development permits 0 since 2012

None located on this parcel since 2012.

Recent building permits 16 since 2012 · 15 in the City’s office class

Applied	Permit	Class · work	Est. cost	Status
2025-06-04	BP2025-10658	2306 - Parking Garage · Improvement Parkade Repairs	$140,000	Completed
2022-01-19	BP2022-00838	3402 - Office · Improvement Proof Capital - Interior Alteration	$400,000	Completed
2021-07-15	BP2021-12519	3402 - Office · Improvement Hollinsworth 6th Floor Public Washrooms	$40,000	Completed
2020-04-16	BP2020-04461	3402 - Office · Improvement Alterations	$51,367	Completed
2017-03-27	BP2017-02873	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alteration - Group D - Waterous Energy Office	$200,000	Completed
2017-03-27	BP2017-02874	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alteration - Group D - Strath Resources Office	$125,000	Completed
2017-03-27	BP2017-02872	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior Alteration - Group D - Strath Resources Offices A	$75,000	Completed
2014-09-23	BP2014-14944	3402 - Office · Improvement Interior alteration (new tenant)	$428,600	Completed

Declared estimated project cost across all 16 non-residential building permits on the parcel since 2012: $3.6M. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval; applicant and contractor names are not reproduced.

Nearby office buildings

The six nearest office building sites in the record, by straight-line distance between parcel centroids.

Lancaster Building304 8 Ave SW41.2 m · built 1913 · Office/Retail · Downtown Commercial Core · 53 m
308 8 Ave SW9 m · built 1910 · Office/Retail · Downtown Commercial Core · 57 m
364 9 Ave SW198.9 m · built 1987 · Office · 2 accounts · Downtown Commercial Core · 60 m
850 2 St SW63.5 m · built 2009 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 84 m
Dome Tower333 7 Ave SW145.7 m · built 1976 · Office/Retail · 2 accounts · Downtown Commercial Core · 100 m
Stephen Avenue Place225 7 Ave SW159.8 m · built 1975 · Office · Downtown Commercial Core · 102 m

Canada Life Assurance Building questions

Answers drawn from the record.

How tall is Canada Life Assurance Building?

No LiDAR structure could be attributed to this parcel in the current City 3D building layer.

When was Canada Life Assurance Building built?

The City’s assessment roll records 1958 as the year of construction. The heritage inventory records 1912.

Which CTrain station is closest to Canada Life Assurance Building?

3rd Street SW Station, 144 m in a straight line from the parcel centroid.

Is office space available at Canada Life Assurance Building?

This profile is built from public records and does not track availability, rents or tenancy. Submit a private requirement and current options in the building or nearby will be confirmed through Commercially.

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Public record sources: Current Year Property Assessments (Parcel), Historical Property Assessments (Parcel), Assessment Subproperty Use Codes, 3D Buildings - Citywide (LiDAR roof outlines), Land Use Districts, Transit LRT Stations, Green Line Stations, Plus 15, Historic Resource (Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources), Development Permits, Building Permits, Calgary Existing Buildings - Performance Metrics (BenchmarkYYC) — The City of Calgary, retrieved 2026-09-21. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. Building names, floor counts and architects, where shown, come from Wikidata (CC0). No brokerage, listing-data or commercial research source is used.

Boundary: Assessed values are the City’s assessment-roll figures for taxation and are not sale prices, asking rents, vacancy or availability; Alberta does not publish transaction prices. LiDAR heights are roof-surface elevations above the lowest ground point at the building perimeter and can differ from architectural heights. Storey equivalents are derived at 3.9 m per storey and are not floor counts. Distances are straight-line. Permit descriptions are the City’s records at retrieval and do not establish current use, tenancy or availability. Read the methodology.

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