Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Vinegar Hill, 47 historic places within 25 km
Its housing is mostly newer: 3.5% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. The nearest town with a top designation is Pickering, 12 km away.
Top-ranked heritage near Vinegar Hill: 31 places within 25 km
All told, 47 places are within 25 km. Markham Village Town Hall in Markham Village is the nearest, 3.4 km away. The earliest date is Ashbridge Estate’s, 1793, 21 km away.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Markham Village Town HallDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 3.4 km away, in Markham Village |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Markham, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 4 km away, in Markham Village |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 4.6 km away, in Unionville |
| Thistle Ha' FarmNational Historic Site · 1840–1871 · 16 km away, in Pickering |
| Montgomery's TavernNational Historic Site · 1837 · 19 km away, in Yonge-Eglinton |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 20 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1903–1904 · 20 km away, in Hope |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 20 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Eglinton TheatreNational Historic Site · 1935–1937 · 20 km away, in Lawrence Park South |
| Ashbridge EstateOntario Heritage Trust property · 1793 · 21 km away, in Greenwood-Coxwell |
| Balmoral Fire HallNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 21 km away, in Yonge-St.Clair |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 22 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
Within 25 km of Vinegar Hill, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
No place near Vinegar Hill is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
First by date comes Ashbridge Estate in Greenwood-Coxwell, from 1793. 45 places within 25 km have a date. 16 predate Confederation.
Little new building in Vinegar Hill: 0.4% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Vinegar Hill built little from 1961 to 1980: 16% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. 57% of Vinegar Hill’s homes date from 1981 to 2000, well above the typical 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 22% of Vinegar Hill’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Vinegar Hill compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 19,400 to 19,700 residents, by places on the registers.
7 of them are ahead. The typical town its size has 0. For 9, the registers list nothing.
Vinegar Hill and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinegar Hill | 19,543 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Box Grove | 25,496 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hagerman's Corners | 43,555 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Milliken | 24,431 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Markham Village | 10,319 | 2 | 0 | 1871 |
| Underwood | 5,972 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Agincourt North | 27,790 | 0 | 0 | — |
Vinegar Hill in brief
Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 3.5%, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
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.
- 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 grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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 tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
Questions about Vinegar Hill’s history
How many historic places does Vinegar Hill have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Vinegar Hill; Markham Village Town Hall, in Markham Village, is 3.4 km away.
How old are the homes in Vinegar Hill?
Before 1961: 3.5% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Why might a heritage building in Vinegar Hill be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; one further listing in Vinegar Hill shows up only as a Wikidata number.
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).