Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0Heritage within reach of Cantley: 15 places, 10 km or closer
Its housing is mostly newer: 4.7% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Wikidata gives January 1, 1989 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged. For the highest designations, the closest town is Chelsea, 5.2 km off.
Old pictures of Cantley
One picture from before 1950: one old photograph of the town. Tap it to see it full screen.
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.
5.2 km from Cantley: Cimetière des Pionniers de Chelsea, the nearest on the registers
Stable and Carriage House, 8.3 km off, is the nearest of 5 top-tier places. The radius of 10 km holds 15. They are 7 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, 5 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and 3 municipal citations.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Cimetière des Pionniers de ChelseaCited heritage site (Québec) · 1837 · 5.2 km away, in Chelsea |
| Old Chease Protestant CemeteryCited heritage site (Québec) · 1835 · 6.6 km away, in Chelsea |
| Collège Saint-Alexandre de la GatineauCited heritage site (Québec) · 6.9 km away, in Les Rapides |
| O'Brien HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1930–1931 · 8.3 km away, in Chelsea |
| Stable and Carriage HouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1908 · 8.3 km away, in Chelsea |
| Wood ShedClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1908 · 8.4 km away, in Chelsea |
| ChapelClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1908 · 8.4 km away, in Chelsea |
| Garage and Caretaker's QuartersClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1908 · 8.4 km away, in Chelsea |
| Main HouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1907–1908 · 8.5 km away, in Chelsea |
| The Farm, Farm HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1850–1851 · 9.6 km away, in Du Plateau |
| Moorside, Garage and Servant's QuartersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1922–1923 · 9.6 km away, in Chelsea |
| Kingswood, GarageRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1922–1923 · 9.6 km away, in Du Plateau |
Most of what stands within 10 km of Cantley dates from the decades after Confederation
The historic places within 10 km of Cantley, not in it, by the first construction date on each record.
Old Chease Protestant Cemetery, in Chelsea, goes back furthest, to 1835. The chart rests on 14 dated places within 10 km. 3 go back before 1867.
7.4% of Cantley’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
43% of Cantley’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Cantley built little from 1961 to 1980: 16% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 29% of Cantley’s, against 23% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Cantley compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 12,200 to 12,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Summerland. The typical town its size has 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.
Cantley and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cantley | 12,291 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Chelsea | 8,998 | 12 | 6 | 1835 |
| Les Rapides | 15,090 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Hautes-Plaines | 6,353 | 0 | 0 | — |
| La Cité | 30,930 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Des Vallées | 3,575 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Rivière-Gatineau | 14,875 | 0 | 0 | — |
Cantley in brief
Few of its homes are old, 4.7% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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.
- 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.
- Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
- 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.
Questions about Cantley’s history
How many historic places does Cantley have on the registers?
None inside Cantley yet. The nearest is Cimetière des Pionniers de Chelsea, 5.2 km away in Chelsea.
When did Cantley become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Cantley to January 1, 1989. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Cantley?
Before 1961: 4.7% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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).