Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Jacob · Photo: Sylvainbrousseau · CC BY-SA 3.0Inside Boischatel the registers count 7 historic places; 3 are top designations. Few towns have as much for their size: 7.6 for every 10,000 residents, more than 97% of Canadian towns. On the list: 4 municipal citations. The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 9.7%.
First come Maison Jacob and Site patrimonial de la Chute-Montmorency. Of the places on Boischatel’s registers, 6 have a photo here. 4 different photographers shared them on Wikimedia Commons.
Site patrimonial de la Chute-Montmorency
Manoir de Charleville
Maison Pageau (Boischatel)
Maison Vézina
Maison Léonidas-Vézina+1See all photosPhotos 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.
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1920Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
7 of the 7 dated places are older than Confederation.
The name Saint-Jean-de-Boischatel lasted until 1991, when Boischatel took another. Wikidata gives the municipality of Boischatel the date April 3, 1920, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
The oldest, Manoir de Charleville, dates from 1660; the newest from 1839. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They were designated between 1965 and 1994. Each one opens its own page.
At the head of the list: Manoir de Charleville and Maison Jacob.
Each place sits in one group, from its name first, then the uses its register lists.
Designations came from 1991 to 2005. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The oldest, Maison Léonidas-Vézina, dates from 1700; the newest from 1765. Each one opens its own page.
38% of Boischatel’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Half of the homes standing in Boischatel today were built before 2001. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Boischatel 23% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 9,200 to 9,300 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boischatel | 9,250 | 7 | 3 | 1660 |
| Chutes-Montmorency | 16,273 | 1 | 1 | 1867 |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | 17,558 | 1 | 1 | 1760 |
| Saint-Michel | 17,303 | 0 | 0 | — |
| L'Ange-Gardien | 4,106 | 5 | 4 | 1674 |
| Vieux-Bourg | 14,774 | 4 | 3 | 1786 |
| Sainte-Pétronille | 1,015 | 0 | 0 | — |
Boischatel has 7 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, among them Manoir de Charleville. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. 4 of the 7 dated places belong to the years before Confederation. Few of its homes are old, 9.7% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For the rest, Jules Huot (1908) is its person of the past on the record; and the designations ran from 1965 to 2005.
Manoir de Charleville — its record dates it to 1660 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
Manoir de Charleville, Maison Jacob and Site patrimonial de la Chute-Montmorency.
9.7% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).
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