TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1784–1803Maison Brossard4240 chemin des PrairiesPhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Site patrimonial de la Maison-Brossard · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.04historic places on the registers
History of Brossard · Canada’s heritage registers
Brossard’s record starts in 1784 with Maison Brossard
Inside Brossard there are 4 historic places, all of them top designations. That is 0.4 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 73% of Canadian towns. Only 4.2% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town. Wikidata’s date for the municipality is January 1, 1951; it may record a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
Historic places
4
0.4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
4
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Oldest building
1784
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
4.2%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
All 4 of Brossard’s highest-designated places, photographed
Leading off: Site patrimonial de la Maison-Brossard and Maison Brossard. Photos show every place Brossard’s registers name.
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 Brossard’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 4, by tier
4 Highest designations
In Québec the record is fuller than elsewhere: beside Parks Canada’s designations, the province’s register lists its classements and every municipal citation.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
4 places in Brossard with the highest designation
Their designations span 1973 to 2020. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They date from 1784 (Maison Brossard) to 1800. Each one opens its own page.
TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1799Maison Sénécal5425 chemin des PrairiesPhoto: Pascal Normand · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1800–1850Maison Banlier5505 chemin des PrairiesPhoto: Pascal Normand · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
TopClassified heritage site (Québec)Site patrimonial de la Maison-Brossard4240 chemin des PrairiesPhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Homes by age
8.8% of Brossard’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 28% of Brossard’s, against 15% in the typical town. Brossard’s largest group of homes, 35%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Count back from today and half of Brossard’s homes are older than 2001.
4.2%
Before 1961
35%
1961–80
24%
1981–2000
28%
2001–15
8.8%
2016–21
BrossardTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
Brossard and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brossard | 97,597 | 4 | 4 | 1784 |
| Vieux Greenfield Park | 10,998 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Iberville | 17,988 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Nouveau Greenfield Park | 6,199 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Laflèche | 19,706 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Maricourt | 14,407 | 0 | 0 | — |
| La Prairie | 27,159 | 3 | 3 | 1687 |
In brief
Brossard in brief
Brossard holds 4 historic places on Canada’s registers, 4 with the highest designation, including Maison Brossard. The census dates only 4.2% of its homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, it has 4 historic places, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 3); and the list grew between 1973 and 2020.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a 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.
Questions about Brossard’s history
What is the oldest building in Brossard?
Maison Brossard (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1784.
Which places in Brossard have the highest designation?
These: Maison Brossard, Maison Sénécal, Maison Banlier and Site patrimonial de la Maison-Brossard.
How old are the homes in Brossard?
4.2% 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).