History around Malvern West: 51 designated places within 25 km
Homes from before 1961 are 6.2% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. Heritage of the first rank begins 11 km away, in Pickering.
Malvern West’s area holds 35 top-tier places within 25 km
Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Moss Park hold most of them, among 28 towns. Ashbridge Estate, 17 km off, is the oldest: 1793. The radius of 25 km holds 51.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Markham Village Town HallDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 8.7 km away, in Markham Village |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Markham, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 9.3 km away, in Markham Village |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 9.6 km away, in Unionville |
| Ashbridge EstateOntario Heritage Trust property · 1793 · 17 km away, in Greenwood-Coxwell |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 17 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Montgomery's TavernNational Historic Site · 1837 · 17 km away, in Yonge-Eglinton |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 17 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Thistle Ha' FarmNational Historic Site · 1840–1871 · 18 km away, in Pickering |
| Eglinton TheatreNational Historic Site · 1935–1937 · 18 km away, in Lawrence Park South |
| Balmoral Fire HallNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 19 km away, in Yonge-St.Clair |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 19 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Winchester HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1880 · 19 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
Near Malvern West (25 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation
Reaching 25 km out from Malvern West: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Oldest of all: Ashbridge Estate, Greenwood-Coxwell, 1793. Within 25 km, building dates exist for 49 places. Before Confederation: 16.
Malvern West added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.1%, where most towns have 4.1%
30% of Malvern West’s homes date from 1981 to 2000, well above the typical 23%. More of Malvern West’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 45%. Half of the homes standing in Malvern West 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.
Malvern West and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malvern West | 17,354 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Malvern East | 26,113 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Morningside Heights | 24,972 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Morningside | 17,708 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Woburn North | 26,662 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Agincourt South-Malvern West | 24,438 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Agincourt North | 27,790 | 0 | 0 | — |
Malvern West in brief
Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 6.2%, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Malvern West’s history
How many historic places does Malvern West have on the registers?
Inside Malvern West, none so far; Markham Village Town Hall, 8.7 km away in Markham Village, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Malvern West?
6.2% 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).