TopNational Historic Site · 1837Montgomery's Tavern2384 Yonge Street (at Montgomery Ave.)Photo: Mr. J. Shaft · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Commons file
Montgomery's Tavern · Photo: Mr. J. Shaft · CC BY-SA 2.01historic place on the registers
History of Yonge-Eglinton · Canada’s heritage registers
Before 1961: 47% of the homes in Yonge-Eglinton
For Yonge-Eglinton, that is 2.7 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Inside the town there is 1 historic place, a top designation. Relative to its size the figure is 0.8 per 10,000 residents, more than in 78% of Canadian towns. Montgomery's Tavern, from 1837, is the town’s national historic site.
Historic places
1
0.8 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1837
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
47%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Yonge-Eglinton’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
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.
Highest designations
The highest rank in Yonge-Eglinton: one place
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Within 5 km of Yonge-Eglinton: 13 places on the registers
Among them are 10 National Historic Sites and 3 provincial or municipal listings. The nearest is Eglinton Theatre, 700 m away in Lawrence Park South. University College, 4.7 km off, is the oldest: 1856.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Eglinton TheatreNational Historic Site · 1935–1937 · 700 m away, in Lawrence Park South |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 1.7 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Balmoral Fire HallNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 2.2 km away, in Yonge-St.Clair |
| SpadinaNational Historic Site · 1866–1914 · 2.9 km away, in Casa Loma |
| Don Valley Brick WorksOntario Heritage Trust easement · 3.7 km away, in Leaside-Bennington |
| Heliconian HallNational Historic Site · 1876–1877 · 3.8 km away, in Annex |
| Studio BuildingNational Historic Site · 1913–1915 · 3.8 km away, in Rosedale-Moore Park |
| Royal Conservatory of MusicNational Historic Site · 1880–1882 · 4.1 km away, in University |
| Annesley HallNational Historic Site · 1902–1904 · 4.2 km away, in Bay-Cloverhill |
| Newman CentreOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1891 · 4.5 km away, in University |
| University CollegeNational Historic Site · 1856–1860 · 4.7 km away, in University |
| Chapel of St. James-the-LessNational Historic Site · 1857–1862 · 4.8 km away, in Cabbagetown-South St.James Town |
Homes by age
New homes stand out in Yonge-Eglinton: 9.8% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
Yonge-Eglinton built little from 2001 to 2015: 9.8% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 9.4% of Yonge-Eglinton’s, against 23% in the typical town. Count back from today and half of Yonge-Eglinton’s homes are older than 1981.
47%
Before 1961
22%
1961–80
9.4%
1981–2000
9.8%
2001–15
9.8%
2016–21
Yonge-EglintonTypical 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
Yonge-Eglinton has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 12,300 to 12,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Yonge-Eglinton1
Only Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine has more. Their median is 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Yonge-Eglinton and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yonge-Eglinton | 12,424 | 1 | 1 | 1837 |
| South Eglinton-Davisville | 23,380 | 0 | 0 | — |
| North Toronto | 16,007 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lawrence Park South | 15,018 | 1 | 1 | 1935 |
| Mount Pleasant East | 16,373 | 1 | 1 | 1873 |
| Yonge-St.Clair | 13,177 | 1 | 1 | 1911 |
| Forest Hill South | 11,059 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Yonge-Eglinton in brief
Yonge-Eglinton has 47% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Montgomery's Tavern. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Beyond that, its one place was designated in 1925.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Yonge-Eglinton’s history
How old are the homes in Yonge-Eglinton?
The 2021 Census dates 47% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Which places in Yonge-Eglinton have the highest designation?
Just one: Montgomery's Tavern.
What is the oldest building in Yonge-Eglinton?
Montgomery's Tavern (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1837.
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).