Photo: Richard Eriksson from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0An older town: 68% of Trinity-Bellwoods’s homes predate 1961
For Trinity-Bellwoods, that is 3.9 times the typical town’s share, 18%. 41 places on the heritage registers lie within 5 km of Trinity-Bellwoods, the nearest St. Anne's Anglican Church, 1.1 km away. For the highest designations, the closest town is Little Portugal, 1 km off.
Within 5 km of Trinity-Bellwoods, the oldest record dates from 1813
Each historic place within 5 km of Trinity-Bellwoods, outside its limits, by when its record says building began.
First by date comes Fort York in Fort York-Liberty Village, from 1813. 40 dated places within 5 km make up the record. Before Confederation: 13.
The highest designation, 31 times, within 5 km of Trinity-Bellwoods
St. Anne's Anglican Church in Little Portugal is the nearest, 1.1 km away. Among them are 31 National Historic Sites, 8 provincial or municipal listings and 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. They are spread over 19 towns, including Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Kensington-Chinatown.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| St. Anne's Anglican ChurchNational Historic Site · 1907–1909 · 1.1 km away, in Little Portugal |
| Kensington MarketNational Historic Site · 1815–1816 · 1.4 km away, in Kensington-Chinatown |
| Fort YorkNational Historic Site · 1813–1816 · 1.8 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village |
| Fort York ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1936 · 1.8 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village |
| George Brown HouseNational Historic Site · 1875–1878 · 1.8 km away, in Kensington-Chinatown |
| The GrangeNational Historic Site · 1817–1819 · 2 km away, in Kensington-Chinatown |
| Newman CentreOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1891 · 2.1 km away, in University |
| University CollegeNational Historic Site · 1856–1860 · 2.1 km away, in University |
| Gouinlock Buildings / Early Exhibition BuildingsNational Historic Site · 1904–1913 · 2.1 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village |
| 299 Queen Street WestDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 2.1 km away, in Wellington Place |
| Royal Alexandra TheatreNational Historic Site · 1906–1908 · 2.4 km away, in Wellington Place |
| Royal Conservatory of MusicNational Historic Site · 1880–1882 · 2.5 km away, in University |
New homes are rare in Trinity-Bellwoods: 3.1% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Count back from today and half of Trinity-Bellwoods’s homes are older than 1961. Only 5.6% of Trinity-Bellwoods’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 12% of Trinity-Bellwoods’s, against 27% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Trinity-Bellwoods compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 15,500 to 15,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Les Golfs, Downtown, Little Portugal and Loretteville. The typical town its size has 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
Trinity-Bellwoods and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity-Bellwoods | 15,691 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Palmerston-Little Italy | 13,171 | 0 | 0 | — |
| West Queen West | 13,599 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Little Portugal | 15,669 | 1 | 1 | 1907 |
| University | 7,595 | 3 | 2 | 1856 |
| Dufferin Grove | 11,276 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Kensington-Chinatown | 18,597 | 3 | 3 | 1815 |
Trinity-Bellwoods in brief
In Trinity-Bellwoods, 68% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle 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 grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- 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.
Questions about Trinity-Bellwoods’s history
How many historic places does Trinity-Bellwoods have on the registers?
Not within Trinity-Bellwoods. Its nearest is a top designation: St. Anne's Anglican Church, 1.1 km away in Little Portugal.
How old are the homes in Trinity-Bellwoods?
68% 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).