LocalMunicipal historic resource · 1942Alberta Aviation MuseumPhoto: CambridgeBayWeather · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Alberta Aviation Museum · Photo: CambridgeBayWeather · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Sherbrooke · Canada’s heritage registers
An older town: 56% of Sherbrooke’s homes predate 1961
The typical town has 18%: Sherbrooke has 3.2 times the share. On the registers, the town counts 1 historic place. That is 1.4 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 82% of Canadian towns. Alberta Aviation Museum, from 1942, is the town’s municipal historic resource.
Historic places
1
1.4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Oldest building
1942
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
56%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Sherbrooke’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
One more place Sherbrooke or its province protects
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
One place of national importance within 5 km of Sherbrooke
The first one out is Robertson-Wesley United Church, 3.3 km away in Wîhkwêntôwin. By age, Government House leads, from 1911, at 3.5 km. They are spread over 5 towns, including Downtown, Wîhkwêntôwin and Glenora.
The 11 nearest, within 5 km
| Robertson-Wesley United ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1971 · 3.3 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
| Government HouseNational Historic Site · 1911–1912 · 3.5 km away, in Glenora |
| St. Josaphat CathedralMunicipal historic resource · 1946 · 3.6 km away, in McCauley |
| First Presbyterian ChurchMunicipal historic resource · 1912 · 4.3 km away, in Downtown |
| Victoria ArmouryProvincial historic resource · 4.3 km away, in Downtown |
| McLeod BuildingMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 4.4 km away, in Downtown |
| McKay Avenue SchoolMunicipal historic resource · 4.6 km away, in Downtown |
| Hotel MacdonaldMunicipal historic resource · 1915 · 4.7 km away, in Downtown |
| Grierson CentreRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1912–1914 · 4.9 km away, in Boyle Street |
| Hudson's Bay Company StablesMunicipal historic resource · 1914 · 4.9 km away, in Downtown |
| High Level BridgeMunicipal historic resource · 4.9 km away, in Wîhkwêntôwin |
Homes by age
56% of Sherbrooke’s homes were built before 1961
Sherbrooke built little from 2001 to 2015: 6.6% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Few of Sherbrooke’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 9.9%, the norm 23%. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 3.8% of Sherbrooke’s, about the typical 4.1%.
56%
Before 1961
22%
1961–80
9.9%
1981–2000
6.6%
2001–15
3.8%
2016–21
SherbrookeTypical 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
Sherbrooke has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,100 to 7,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Sherbrooke1
Only L'Ange-Gardien, Les Cèdres and Hope have more. Their median is 0. 9 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Sherbrooke and its neighbours
In brief
Sherbrooke in brief
Sherbrooke has 56% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place. Just 3 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- 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.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Sherbrooke’s history
How old are the homes in Sherbrooke?
Before 1961: 56% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Sherbrooke have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Sherbrooke, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Sherbrooke?
Alberta Aviation Museum (Municipal historic resource): the first construction date on its record is 1942.
Why might a heritage building in Sherbrooke be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. One more listing in Sherbrooke is known through Wikidata alone, so it is counted, not paged.
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).