LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1800Maison Abraham-Dubois331 boulevard de la Grande-AlléePhoto: Hadrianopolis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Maison Léon-Dion · Photo: Hadrianopolis · CC BY-SA 3.04historic places on the registers
History of Boisbriand · Canada’s heritage registers
Maison Jean-Charles-Dubois, from 1776, is Boisbriand’s oldest designated place
The registers put 4 historic places inside Boisbriand’s boundary. Homes from before 1961 are 4.8% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is January 1, 1946: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which. The list takes in 4 municipal citations.
Historic places
4
1.3 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
4
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1776
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
4.8%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Boisbriand’s historic places in 3 photos
Pictured and oldest in Boisbriand: Maison Abraham-Dubois, 1800. 3 designated places in Boisbriand have a photo. First come Maison Léon-Dion and Maison Abraham-Dubois.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The map
Where Boisbriand’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 4, by tier
4 Provincial and local listings
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
4 local listings in Boisbriand
They date from 1776 (Maison Jean-Charles-Dubois) to 1816. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The first was designated in 1999, the latest in 2011. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1816Maison Léon-Dion394 chemin de la Grande-CôtePhoto: Hadrianopolis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
LocalCited heritage site (Québec) · 1816Maison ancestrale des Bélanger ou maison Eby274 chemin de la Grande-CôtePhoto: Watercoal · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Municipal citation (Québec) · 1776Maison Jean-Charles-Dubois54 chemin de la Côte Sud
Homes by age
9.9% of Boisbriand’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Few of Boisbriand’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 11%, the norm 15%. Boisbriand has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 44%, where most towns have 23%. Over half of the homes in Boisbriand were already standing by 2001.
4.8%
Before 1961
31%
1961–80
44%
1981–2000
11%
2001–15
9.9%
2016–21
BoisbriandTypical 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
Boisbriand has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 29,100 to 30,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Boisbriand4
Ahead of it: Du Plateau. The middle one has 0. 11 of them have none.
Neighbours
Boisbriand and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boisbriand | 29,830 | 4 | 0 | 1776 |
| Sainte-Thérèse | 27,253 | 3 | 1 | 1881 |
| Rosemère | 14,198 | 5 | 1 | 1796 |
| Fabreville | 48,457 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Rose | 37,408 | 1 | 1 | 1852 |
| Saint-Eustache | 47,562 | 8 | 4 | 1762 |
| Blainville | 61,739 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Boisbriand in brief
Boisbriand holds 4 historic places on Canada’s registers. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Counted by age, only 4.8% of its homes come from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1999 and 2011.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- Québec’s register. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.
Questions about Boisbriand’s history
What is the oldest building in Boisbriand?
Maison Jean-Charles-Dubois, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1776.
How many historic places does Boisbriand have on the registers?
4 historic places in Boisbriand, from Canada’s heritage registers.
How old are the homes in Boisbriand?
4.8% 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). Québec register data: Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, CC BY 4.0.
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec (MCC, Données Québec) · 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).