Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Morningside Heights and its setting: 45 historic places within 25 km
Its housing is mostly newer: 1.1% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. The nearest town with a top designation is Pickering, 8.5 km away.
31 places of national importance within 25 km of Morningside Heights
45 places lie within 25 km. Between them, 25 towns share them, mainly Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Moss Park. By age, Ashbridge Estate leads, from 1793, at 20 km.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Markham Village Town HallDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 7.5 km away, in Markham Village |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Markham, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 8.1 km away, in Markham Village |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 9.5 km away, in Unionville |
| Thistle Ha' FarmNational Historic Site · 1840–1871 · 15 km away, in Pickering |
| Ashbridge EstateOntario Heritage Trust property · 1793 · 20 km away, in Greenwood-Coxwell |
| Montgomery's TavernNational Historic Site · 1837 · 20 km away, in Yonge-Eglinton |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 20 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 20 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Eglinton TheatreNational Historic Site · 1935–1937 · 21 km away, in Lawrence Park South |
| Balmoral Fire HallNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 21 km away, in Yonge-St.Clair |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 21 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Winchester HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1880 · 22 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
Within 25 km of Morningside Heights, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Reaching 25 km out from Morningside Heights: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
The chart rests on 43 dated places within 25 km. 15 are older than 1867. Ashbridge Estate, in Greenwood-Coxwell, goes back furthest, to 1793.
New homes are rare in Morningside Heights: 1.1% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 63% of Morningside Heights’s, against 15% in the typical town. Only 2.7% of Morningside Heights’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. In Morningside Heights, 28% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Morningside Heights and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morningside Heights | 24,972 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Malvern East | 26,113 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Malvern West | 17,354 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Highland Creek | 12,678 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Morningside | 17,708 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Box Grove | 25,496 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Vinegar Hill | 19,543 | 0 | 0 | — |
Morningside Heights in brief
Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 1.1%, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: it has no historic place, against 1 for the middle town its size.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Morningside Heights’s history
How many historic places does Morningside Heights have on the registers?
Inside Morningside Heights, none so far; Markham Village Town Hall, 7.5 km away in Markham Village, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Morningside Heights?
Before 1961: 1.1% 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).