Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Before 1961: 65% of the homes in The Beaches
Most towns have 18%, so The Beaches has 3.7 times as much. Within 10 km of The Beaches there are 43 designated places; Ashbridge Estate, at 2.2 km, is the closest. The closest top-tier heritage is in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town, 5.9 km from here.
Within 10 km of The Beaches, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Around The Beaches, not inside it: the places within 10 km, by the first construction date on record.
The earliest is Ashbridge Estate in Greenwood-Coxwell, begun in 1793. 41 places within 10 km have a date. 15 are older than 1867.
32 places of the highest rank within 10 km of The Beaches
At 2.2 km, Ashbridge Estate in Greenwood-Coxwell is the closest. Among them are 32 National Historic Sites, 10 provincial or municipal listings and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Within 10 km there are 43 in all.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Ashbridge EstateOntario Heritage Trust property · 1793 · 2.2 km away, in Greenwood-Coxwell |
| Don BreweryDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1876 · 5 km away, in Regent Park |
| Gooderham and Worts DistilleryNational Historic Site · 1859–1928 · 5.6 km away, in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands |
| Enoch Turner SchoolhouseOntario Heritage Trust property · 1848 · 5.6 km away, in Moss Park |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 5.6 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Winchester HotelDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1880 · 5.7 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 5.8 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
| Fourth York Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1833–1836 · 6.3 km away, in Moss Park |
| Bank of Upper Canada BuildingNational Historic Site · 1827–1835 · 6.3 km away, in Moss Park |
| St. Lawrence HallNational Historic Site · 1850–1851 · 6.5 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
| Gooderham BuildingOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1882 · 6.7 km away, in Downtown Yonge East |
| Maple Leaf GardensNational Historic Site · 1931–1932 · 6.7 km away, in Church-Wellesley |
Little new building in The Beaches: 2.8% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
The Beaches built little from 2001 to 2015: 9.4% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 9.1% of The Beaches’s, against 23% in the typical town. Only 11% of The Beaches’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.
How The Beaches compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 21,500 to 21,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Varennes, Colchester County, Subdivision B, Carling and Ile-des-Soeurs. The middle one has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
The Beaches and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Beaches | 21,602 | 0 | 0 | — |
| East End-Danforth | 22,055 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Woodbine Corridor | 12,283 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Greenwood-Coxwell | 14,146 | 1 | 0 | 1793 |
| Woodbine-Lumsden | 7,928 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Taylor-Massey | 15,050 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Danforth | 9,364 | 0 | 0 | — |
The Beaches in brief
Before 1961: 65% of The Beaches’s homes, 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
- 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.
- 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. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about The Beaches’s history
How many historic places does The Beaches have on the registers?
The Beaches has none of its own yet. Ashbridge Estate, in Greenwood-Coxwell, is the nearest, 2.2 km away.
How old are the homes in The Beaches?
65% 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).