Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison de Saint-Hubert · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0On the registers Carignan counts 4 historic places, 3 at the top. Its 3.2 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 90% of Canadian towns. The list takes in a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Homes from before 1961 are 9.8% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town.
The set includes 2 of Carignan’s highest-designated places. Of the places on Carignan’s registers, 3 have a photo here. Two to begin with: Maison de Saint-Hubert and Maison Louis-Degneau.
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.
A single date stands for Carignan as a municipality on Wikidata, July 1, 1855, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. The name Carignan comes from Carignano, italian comune. Saint-Joseph de Chambly was the name of Carignan until 1965.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
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. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
They date from 1665 (Fort Ste. Thérèse) to 1790. By designation: 2 places classified by Québec and a National Historic Site. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 33% of Carignan’s, against 15% in the typical town. Only 18% of Carignan’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Carignan built little from 1981 to 2000: 17% of its homes, where most towns have 23%.
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 12,500 to 12,700 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carignan | 12,618 | 4 | 3 | 1665 |
| Chambly | 31,870 | 18 | 8 | 1665 |
| Bienville | 7,888 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu | 4,598 | 3 | 3 | 1784 |
| Richelieu | 6,048 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Laurendeau | 27,321 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Iberville | 17,988 | 0 | 0 | — |
All told, Carignan has 4 historic places, 3 with the highest designation; Fort Ste. Thérèse heads the list. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none has more historic places. Its housing is young: only 9.8% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1923 and 1997.
Fort Ste. Thérèse (National Historic Site): the first construction date on its record is 1665.
Fort Ste. Thérèse, Maison de Saint-Hubert and Maison Louis-Degneau.
9.8% 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).
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