LocalDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1876Don BreweryPhoto: Winston Neutel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Don Brewery · Photo: Winston Neutel · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Regent Park · Canada’s heritage registers
Regent Park: 1 historic place on Canada’s heritage registers
In Regent Park that place is Don Brewery, a designated heritage property (part iv), from 1876. For every 10,000 residents Regent Park has 0.8, ahead of 77% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
0.8 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1876
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
12%
typical town: 18%
Through time
Regent Park in old pictures
The past in one picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Open it full screen with a tap.
1877Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
The map
Where Regent Park’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists the places the Government of Canada has recognized; outside Québec, provincial and municipal listings come only through Wikidata, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
One more place Regent Park or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
The highest designation, 30 times, within 5 km of Regent Park
At 800 m, Enoch Turner Schoolhouse in Moss Park is the closest. The record reaches back to 1793 with Ashbridge Estate, 3.1 km away. 40 places lie within 5 km.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Enoch Turner SchoolhouseOntario Heritage Trust property · 1848 · 800 m away, in Moss Park |
| Winchester HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1880 · 900 m away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Gooderham and Worts DistilleryNational Historic Site · 1859–1928 · 1.1 km away, in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands |
| Fourth York Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1833–1836 · 1.2 km away, in Moss Park |
| Bank of Upper Canada BuildingNational Historic Site · 1827–1835 · 1.3 km away, in Moss Park |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 1.3 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| St. Lawrence HallNational Historic Site · 1850–1851 · 1.4 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
| Maple Leaf GardensNational Historic Site · 1931–1932 · 1.6 km away, in Church-Wellesley |
| Massey HallNational Historic Site · 1894–1895 · 1.6 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
| 205 Yonge StreetOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1905 · 1.7 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
| Old Toronto Post Office / Old Bank of CanadaNational Historic Site · 1851–1854 · 1.7 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
| Elgin and Winter Garden TheatresNational Historic Site · 1911–1914 · 1.7 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
Homes by age
New homes stand out in Regent Park: 29% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
35% of Regent Park’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Regent Park built little from 1981 to 2000: 8.2% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Before 1961: just 12% of Regent Park’s homes, where most towns have 18%.
12%
Before 1961
15%
1961–80
8.2%
1981–2000
35%
2001–15
29%
2016–21
Regent ParkTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Regent Park has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 12,700 to 12,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Regent Park1
Ahead of it: Downtown, Amos and Yonge-Bay Corridor. Their median is 0. 9 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Regent Park and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regent Park | 12,797 | 1 | 0 | 1876 |
| Moss Park | 22,701 | 3 | 2 | 1827 |
| Cabbagetown-South St.James Town | 11,205 | 2 | 1 | 1857 |
| Downtown Yonge East | 18,251 | 7 | 5 | 1850 |
| North St.James Town | 18,733 | 0 | 0 | — |
| St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands | 31,360 | 3 | 3 | 1859 |
| North Riverdale | 11,491 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Regent Park in brief
All told, Regent Park has 1 historic place. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Its homes are mostly newer: 12% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- 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 grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
Questions about Regent Park’s history
How many historic places does Regent Park have on the registers?
1 historic place in Regent Park, from Canada’s heritage registers.
What is the oldest building in Regent Park?
Don Brewery, a Designated heritage property (part IV), begun in 1876.
How old are the homes in Regent Park?
12% predate 1961, where 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).