Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Blake-Jones keeps its older homes: 66% from before 1961
The typical town has 18%: Blake-Jones has 3.8 times the share. The nearest heritage to Blake-Jones is Ashbridge Estate, 1.6 km off, one of 33 places within 5 km. Cabbagetown-South St.James Town, 2.7 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank.
Near Blake-Jones (5 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation
Each historic place within 5 km of Blake-Jones, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
The chart rests on 32 dated places within 5 km. 11 are older than 1867. First by date comes Ashbridge Estate in Greenwood-Coxwell, from 1793.
24 places of the highest rank within 5 km of Blake-Jones
33 places lie within 5 km. By designation: 24 National Historic Sites and 9 provincial or municipal listings. Between them, 17 towns share them, mainly Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Moss Park.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Ashbridge EstateOntario Heritage Trust property · 1793 · 1.6 km away, in Greenwood-Coxwell |
| Don BreweryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1876 · 2.4 km away, in Regent Park |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 2.4 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 2.5 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Winchester HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1880 · 2.6 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Enoch Turner SchoolhouseOntario Heritage Trust property · 1848 · 3.1 km away, in Moss Park |
| Gooderham and Worts DistilleryNational Historic Site · 1859–1928 · 3.2 km away, in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands |
| Fourth York Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1833–1836 · 3.6 km away, in Moss Park |
| Maple Leaf GardensNational Historic Site · 1931–1932 · 3.6 km away, in Church-Wellesley |
| Bank of Upper Canada BuildingNational Historic Site · 1827–1835 · 3.6 km away, in Moss Park |
| Studio BuildingNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 3.8 km away, in Rosedale-Moore Park |
| St. Lawrence HallNational Historic Site · 1850–1851 · 3.8 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
New homes are rare in Blake-Jones: 0.6% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Few of Blake-Jones’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 9.2%, the norm 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 1.3% of Blake-Jones’s, against 15% in the typical town. Only 20% of Blake-Jones’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Blake-Jones and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blake-Jones | 7,494 | 0 | 0 | — |
| North Riverdale | 11,491 | 0 | 0 | — |
| South Riverdale | 28,264 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Greenwood-Coxwell | 14,146 | 1 | 0 | 1793 |
| Danforth | 9,364 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Playter Estates-Danforth | 7,712 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Danforth East York | 17,073 | 0 | 0 | — |
Blake-Jones in brief
Housing in Blake-Jones includes 66% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Questions about Blake-Jones’s history
How many historic places does Blake-Jones have on the registers?
None inside Blake-Jones yet. The nearest is Ashbridge Estate, 1.6 km away in Greenwood-Coxwell.
How old are the homes in Blake-Jones?
Before 1961: 66% of its homes; 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).