Photo: Jason Zhang · CC048% of York Road’s homes were built before 1961
York Road has 2.8 times what the typical town has (18%). The nearest heritage to York Road is Dundas Central Public School, 2.1 km off, one of 16 places within 10 km. Look 4.3 km away, to Strathcona, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
Around York Road, within 10 km, most dated places come from the years before Confederation
Each historic place within 10 km of York Road, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
Oldest of all: Burlington Heights, Strathcona, 1813. The chart rests on 16 dated places within 10 km. 9 predate Confederation.
Within 10 km of York Road, 12 top designations
The registers hold 16 within 10 km. Closest of all is Dundas Central Public School, in Colborne, 2.1 km off. Oldest of them is Burlington Heights (1813), 4.1 km off.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Dundas Central Public SchoolOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1857 · 2.1 km away, in Colborne |
| Burlington HeightsNational Historic Site · 1813–1814 · 4.1 km away, in Strathcona |
| Dundurn CastleNational Historic Site · 1834–1836 · 4.2 km away, in Strathcona |
| Royal Botanical GardensNational Historic Site · 1929–1990 · 5.1 km away, in Burlington |
| Former Hamilton Customs HouseNational Historic Site · 1858–1861 · 5.7 km away, in Central |
| McQuesten House / WhitehernNational Historic Site · 1848–1849 · 5.7 km away, in Durand |
| Sandyford PlaceNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 5.8 km away, in Durand |
| Christ's Church CathedralOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1873 · 5.8 km away, in Beasley |
| John Weir Foote ArmouryNational Historic Site · 1887–1889 · 5.9 km away, in Beasley |
| Former Hamilton Railway Station (Canadian National)National Historic Site · 1929–1932 · 5.9 km away, in Beasley |
| St. Paul's Presbyterian Church / Former St. Andrew's ChurchNational Historic Site · 1854–1858 · 5.9 km away, in Corktown |
| Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Station, Former, Hamilton, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1931–1934 · 6 km away, in Corktown |
New homes are rare in York Road: 0.5% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
York Road built little from 2001 to 2015: 2.4% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Only 17% of York Road’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Half of the homes standing in York Road today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How York Road compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,900 to 5,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Cardston County, Rivière-Rouge and Warwick. The middle one has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
York Road and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| York Road | 4,931 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Central Business Dis | 6,127 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Colborne | 7,447 | 1 | 0 | 1857 |
| Ainslie Wood West | 3,917 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ainslie Wood East | 3,112 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westdale South | 4,931 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Golf Course | 3,741 | 0 | 0 | — |
York Road in brief
York Road’s homes from before 1961 come to 48%, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
Questions about York Road’s history
How many historic places does York Road have on the registers?
Inside York Road, none so far; Dundas Central Public School, 2.1 km away in Colborne, is the closest.
How old are the homes in York Road?
48% 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).