Photo: Andrepoiy · CC BY-SA 4.0Upper Thornhill Estates’s surroundings: 27 historic places within 25 km
Its housing is mostly newer: 0% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. For the highest designations, the closest town is Richmond Hill, 3.5 km off.
“Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, Ontario”, 3 km from Upper Thornhill Estates, is the closest
They stand in 19 towns, Aurora, University and Markham Village among them. 27 places lie within 25 km. The mix: 14 National Historic Sites, 7 provincial or municipal listings and 5 heritage railway stations.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1903–1904 · 3 km away, in Hope |
| Aurora Radial Railway Bridge AbutmentDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1899 · 12 km away, in Aurora |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Unionville, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 13 km away, in Unionville |
| Canadian National Railway Station, Aurora, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 14 km away, in Aurora |
| Hillary HouseNational Historic Site · 1861–1863 · 14 km away, in Aurora |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Markham, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1871–1872 · 17 km away, in Markham Village |
| Markham Village Town HallDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1881 · 17 km away, in Markham Village |
| Montgomery's TavernNational Historic Site · 1837 · 19 km away, in Yonge-Eglinton |
| Eglinton TheatreNational Historic Site · 1935–1937 · 19 km away, in Lawrence Park South |
| Old Newmarket Town Hall and CourthouseDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1883 · 20 km away, in Newmarket |
| Former Canadian National Railway Station, Newmarket, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1900–1901 · 21 km away, in Newmarket |
| Mount Pleasant CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1873 · 21 km away, in Mount Pleasant East |
Most of what stands within 25 km of Upper Thornhill Estates dates from the decades after Confederation
Out to 25 km from Upper Thornhill Estates, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
The oldest is Montgomery's Tavern in Yonge-Eglinton, from 1837. The bars count 26 dated places within 25 km. Before Confederation: 5.
A growing town: 28% of Upper Thornhill Estates’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Upper Thornhill Estates built little from 1981 to 2000: 2.4% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Few of Upper Thornhill Estates’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 0.5%, the norm 27%. 70% of Upper Thornhill Estates’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Upper Thornhill Estates compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 10,400 to 10,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Coal Harbour and Corman Park No. 344. Their median is 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Upper Thornhill Estates and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Thornhill Estates | 10,435 | 0 | 0 | — |
| The Valleys of Thornhill | 9,979 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hope | 6,997 | 1 | 0 | 1903 |
| Carrville Corners | 13,004 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Richmond Hill | 222,031 | 1 | 1 | 1866 |
| Thornhill Woods | 13,237 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dufferin Hill | 7,910 | 0 | 0 | — |
Upper Thornhill Estates in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 0% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- 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 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. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
Questions about Upper Thornhill Estates’s history
How many historic places does Upper Thornhill Estates have on the registers?
None inside Upper Thornhill Estates yet. The nearest is Former Canadian National Railway Station, Maple, Ontario, 3 km away in Hope.
How old are the homes in Upper Thornhill Estates?
0% 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).