Maison La Chaumière · Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
11historic places on the registers
History of Boucherville · Canada’s heritage registers
Maison Quintal, from 1727, is Boucherville’s oldest designated place
Inside Boucherville the registers count 11 historic places; 7 are top designations. Measured against its size, 2.6 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 88% of Canadian towns. On the list: 4 municipal citations. Homes from before 1961 are 9.6% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town.
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How old
Boucherville’s dated places lean to the years of New France
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
New France before 17605
British North America 1760–18664
After Confederation 1867–19130
Wars and Depression 1914–19450
Since 1946 1946 on0
Before 1867: 9 of the 9 with a date.
How it began
Where Boucherville’s story starts: 1667
The founding of Boucherville goes back to Pierre Boucher, in 1667. 359 years have passed since. Behind the name Boucherville is Pierre Boucher.
Wikidata gives the municipality of Boucherville the date January 1, 1857, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 11, by tier
7 Highest designations4 Provincial and local listings
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
7 places in Boucherville with the highest designation
They date from 1727 (Maison Quintal) to 1801. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The first was designated in 1964, the latest in 2012. Each one opens its own page.
Leading by designation: Maison Quintal and Villa De La Broquerie.
Houses9
Churches and religious buildings1
Other places1
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Provincial and local listings
4 local listings in Boucherville
Designations came from 1988 to 2003. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They date from 1754 (Maison Chaput) to 1803. Each one opens its own page.
Church of the Holy Family went on the registers first, in 1964. Since 2011, one more has joined the list.
Homes by age
Most of Boucherville’s homes went up from 1961 to 1980: 39%
New building has been slow in Boucherville: 2.9% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. 19% of Boucherville’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Boucherville has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 29%, where most towns have 23%.
9.6%
Before 1961
39%
1961–80
29%
1981–2000
19%
2001–15
2.9%
2016–21
BouchervilleTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Boucherville’s person of national historic significance, and others
Étienne Desmarteau closes the list, born in 1873. 25 Wikipedias cover Étienne Desmarteau, the most of anyone here. 13 of the 19 were born in the years before Confederation. At 90, Geneviève Boucher outlived the rest, dying in 1766.
Geneviève Boucher
Jacques-Pierre Daneau de Muy
Antoine Ménard, dit Lafontaine
Timothy Demonbreun
François Viger
Antoine Girouard
Jacques Trullier, dit Lacombe
Toussaint Charbonneau
Louis Lacoste
Bonaventure Viger
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Jean-Baptiste Jodoin
Louis-Victor Sicotte
Amable Jodoin
Damase Parizeau
Alexandre Lacoste
Amanda Viger
Antoine Audet
Étienne Desmarteau
1650170017501800185019001950
Étienne Desmarteau1873–1905 · Canadian athletics competitor
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine1807–1864 · National historic person, 1937 · Canadian politician
Toussaint Charbonneau1767–1843 · American explorer
Alexandre Lacoste1842–1923 · Canadian politician
Louis-Victor Sicotte1812–1899 · Canadian judge
Amable Jodoin1828–1880 · Canadian politician
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Amanda Viger1845–1906 · Canadian religious woman
Louis Lacoste1798–1878 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Boucherville → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns its size
Boucherville has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 39,500 to 43,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Boucherville has 11 historic places, 7 with the highest designation, among them Maison Quintal. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none has more historic places. Of the whole list, 82% are houses.
the years of New France account for 5 of the 9 dated places. Of its people of the past, the best known are Étienne Desmarteau (1873), Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807) and Toussaint Charbonneau (1767). Few of its homes are old, 9.6% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
Questions about Boucherville’s history
What is the oldest building in Boucherville?
Maison Quintal, a Classified heritage building (Québec), begun in 1727.
Which places in Boucherville have the highest designation?
These: Maison Quintal, Villa De La Broquerie, Maison La Chaumière, Manoir François-Pierre-Boucher, Maison Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine and Maison Jean-Baptiste-Gauthier-Dit-Saint-Germain, and 1 more.
How old are the homes in Boucherville?
9.6% 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.
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