Heritage within reach of Oakes: 14 places, 10 km or closer
Its housing is mostly newer: 0% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Sulphur Springs, 1.8 km off.
Within 10 km of Oakes: 14 places on the registers
They are 10 National Historic Sites, 3 provincial or municipal listings and a heritage railway station. Corktown, Beasley and Durand hold most of them, among 8 towns. The oldest, Burlington Heights, dates from 1813, 8 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Griffin HouseNational Historic Site · 1827–1828 · 4.3 km away, in Sulphur Springs |
| Dundas Central Public SchoolOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1857 · 5.6 km away, in Colborne |
| AuchmarOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1855 · 6.3 km away, in Centremount |
| Sandyford PlaceNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 7.5 km away, in Durand |
| McQuesten House / WhitehernNational Historic Site · 1848–1849 · 7.7 km away, in Durand |
| Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Station, Former, Hamilton, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1931–1934 · 7.8 km away, in Corktown |
| St. Paul's Presbyterian Church / Former St. Andrew's ChurchNational Historic Site · 1854–1858 · 8 km away, in Corktown |
| Dundurn CastleNational Historic Site · 1834–1836 · 8 km away, in Strathcona |
| Burlington HeightsNational Historic Site · 1813–1814 · 8 km away, in Strathcona |
| Victoria HallNational Historic Site · 1887–1889 · 8.1 km away, in Corktown |
| John Weir Foote ArmouryNational Historic Site · 1887–1889 · 8.6 km away, in Beasley |
| Christ's Church CathedralOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1873 · 8.6 km away, in Beasley |
From 1813 on: the dated places within 10 km of Oakes
Places near Oakes (within 10 km, outside the town), each by the first construction date it records.
Oldest of all: Burlington Heights, Strathcona, 1813. 14 places within 10 km have a date. 9 go back before 1867.
Oakes added no homes from 2016 to 2021, where most towns have 4.1%
Oakes has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 29%, where most towns have 15%. Few of Oakes’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 0%, the norm 27%. 70% of Oakes’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, more than the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Oakes and its neighbours
Oakes in brief
Before 1961: just 0% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
Questions about Oakes’s history
How many historic places does Oakes have on the registers?
Inside Oakes, none so far. At 4.3 km, Griffin House in Sulphur Springs is the nearest, with the top designation.
How old are the homes in Oakes?
0% 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).