The Briars · Photo: Oaktree b · CC BY-SA 3.0Keswick: 1 historic place on Canada’s heritage registers
Keswick has 0.2 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 71% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census dates 6% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.
Where Keswick’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada’s directory; a province’s or a council’s own listing shows here only when Wikidata holds it and an encyclopedia covers it.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
On a provincial or local list in Keswick: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
LocalNear Keswick, within 25 km: built places from 1825 on
No place near Keswick is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
The oldest is Sharon Temple in East Gwillimbury, from 1825. 5 dated places within 25 km make up the record. One is older than 1867.
Keswick’s surroundings: 5 historic places within 25 km
The nearest is Sharon Temple, 19 km away in East Gwillimbury. They belong to 4 towns, chiefly Newmarket, East Gwillimbury and Uxbridge. By designation: 2 National Historic Sites, 2 heritage railway stations and a provincial or municipal listing.
The 5 nearest, within 25 km
| Sharon TempleNational Historic Site · 1825–1832 · 19 km away, in East Gwillimbury |
| Leaskdale ManseNational Historic Site · 1886–1887 · 22 km away, in Uxbridge |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Newmarket, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 24 km away, in Newmarket |
| Canadian National Railways Allandale Station at Barrie, Allandale / Barrie, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1906 · 24 km away, in Barrie |
| Old Newmarket Town Hall and CourthouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1883 · 24 km away, in Newmarket |
Most of Keswick’s homes went up from 1981 to 2000: 32%
Keswick has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 19%, where most towns have 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Keswick has 20% of its homes from before 1961. Over half of the homes in Keswick were already standing by 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born in Keswick before the First World War: 3 lives
Best known is Augusta Stowe-Gullen, with articles in 11 Wikipedia languages. The first on the line is Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857). LaRena Clark lived longest, to 87, dying in 1991. Larry Molyneaux closes the list, born in 1912.
Everyone born in Keswick → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Keswick and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keswick | 53,630 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Innisfil | 50,686 | 0 | 0 | — |
| East Gwillimbury | 42,989 | 1 | 1 | 1825 |
Keswick in brief
Of the homes standing in Keswick, 20% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place. The town’s people of the past are Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857), LaRena Clark (1904) and Larry Molyneaux (1912). The rest is about typical: it has one historic place, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- 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.
Questions about Keswick’s history
How many historic places does Keswick have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Keswick, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
How old are the homes in Keswick?
20% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).