Photo: Mathew Ingram · CC BY 2.0History around Maple: 42 designated places within 25 km
Few homes are old by the census: 2.9% before 1961, against 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Richmond Hill, 7.8 km off. Records name 2 people born in Maple before 1914; the first is Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook.
Leave Maple and the first historic place is “Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, Ontario”, 1.5 km away
Kensington Market, 24 km off, is the oldest: 1815. The radius of 25 km holds 42. Of 26 top designations nearby, Hillary House is the closest, at 18 km.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1903–1904 · 1.5 km away, in Hope |
| Aurora Radial Railway Bridge AbutmentDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1899 · 15 km away, in Aurora |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 17 km away, in Unionville |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Aurora, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 17 km away, in Aurora |
| Hillary HouseNational Historic Site · 1861–1863 · 18 km away, in Aurora |
| Montgomery's TavernNational Historic Site · 1837 · 18 km away, in Yonge-Eglinton |
| Eglinton TheatreNational Historic Site · 1935–1937 · 18 km away, in Lawrence Park South |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 20 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
| Balmoral Fire HallNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 21 km away, in Yonge-St.Clair |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Markham, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 21 km away, in Markham Village |
| Markham Village Town HallDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 21 km away, in Markham Village |
| SpadinaNational Historic Site · 1866–1914 · 21 km away, in Casa Loma |
Within 25 km of Maple, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Places as far as 25 km from Maple, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Kensington Market, in Kensington-Chinatown, is the oldest (1815). Within 25 km, building dates exist for 40 places. Before Confederation: 9.
Maple added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 2%, where most towns have 4.1%
Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 3.8% of Maple’s, against 27% in the typical town. 63% of Maple’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, more than the typical town’s 23%. Maple has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 27%, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Maple and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple | 20,122 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Carrville Corners | 13,004 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Teston | 7,437 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Peace Village | 14,598 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dufferin Hill | 7,910 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Purpleville | 19,918 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Vellore | 39,490 | 0 | 0 | — |
Maple in brief
Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 2.9% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed; and its past has lives on the record such as Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879) and Harold James Kirby (1895).
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. 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.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about Maple’s history
How many historic places does Maple have on the registers?
Not inside Maple. The closest is Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, Ontario in Hope, 1.5 km away.
How old are the homes in Maple?
2.9% 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).