Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison John-Yule · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0On the registers Chambly counts 18 historic places, 8 at the top. Scaled to its population the record is long: 5.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 95% of Canadian towns. The list takes in 6 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 4 municipal citations. Local registers add one more place, counted here but not paged: Wikidata holds its number and little else.
In front: Maison John-Yule and Site patrimonial de la Maison-Thomas-Whitehead. 14 of the places on Chambly’s heritage registers are pictured here; the others keep their register record. Old pictures of 5 places in Chambly fill their own pages.
Site patrimonial de la Maison-Thomas-Whitehead
De Salaberry House
Fort Chambly
Chambly Canal
St. Stephen's Anglican Church+8See 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.
On one line by date: the oldest views of 5 of its historic places. Tap any picture to see it full screen.
c. 1814
1881
c. 1910
c. 1915
1927Public 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.
Of the 16 with a date, 7 predate 1867.
Chambly takes its name from Jacques de Chambly, french colonial governor. In 1965 the municipality took over from Chambly and Fort-Chambly. On the open record, Chambly as a municipality goes back to September 18, 1965, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement.
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.
The federal directory and the Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec are both open, so every federal, provincial and municipal designation here has its point.
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.
Here that means 4 National Historic Sites, 3 places classified by Québec and a Classified Federal Heritage Building. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Fort Chambly is the earliest, from 1665; the latest dates from 1831. Each one opens its own page.
The first was designated in 1987, the latest in 1997. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Superintendent's Residence is the earliest, from 1867; the latest dates from 1906. Each one opens its own page.
Two of the highest-ranked are Fort Chambly and De Salaberry House. Its places fall into 7 kinds.
Kinds read from each place’s name and the functions its register gives; a building keeps the kind it was built as.
Centre administratif et communautaire de Chambly is the earliest, from 1855; the latest dates from 1931. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their designations span 2006 to 2007. Each one opens its own page.
The places by the year of their designation.
The first was Fort Chambly, in 1920. The busiest year was 2006, with 3. Since 2011, 3 more have joined the list.
31% of Chambly’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Homes from before 1961 are 8.9% of Chambly’s housing, below the typical 18%. Chambly has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 29%, 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.
The earliest is Joseph-Claude Boucher de Niverville, born in 1715. 14 of the 19 were born in the years before Confederation. Frederick Montye Morson lived longest, to 93, dying in 1944. Monument de Charles-Michel D'Irumberry de Salaberry, one of the town’s historic places, recalls Charles de Salaberry.
Everyone born in Chambly → Born before 1914, or named by one of the town’s historic places. 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 of 31,100 to 32,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Centretown and Des Explorateurs. Their median is 0. For 10, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chambly | 31,870 | 18 | 8 | 1665 |
| Carignan | 12,618 | 4 | 3 | 1665 |
| Richelieu | 6,048 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu | 4,598 | 3 | 3 | 1784 |
| Bienville | 7,888 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Basile-le-Grand | 17,146 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Marieville | 11,910 | 0 | 0 | — |
Chambly has 18 historic places, 8 with the highest designation. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. the decades after Confederation account for 8 of the 16 dated places. Its people of the past include Emma Albani (1847), Charles de Salaberry (1778) and Étienne Provost (1785). Most of its homes are post-1960: only 8.9% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town.
Fort Chambly, a National Historic Site, begun in 1665.
Fort Chambly, De Salaberry House, St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Chambly Canal, Fort Chambly National Historic Site and Maison Thomas-Whitehead, and 2 more.
Before 1961: 8.9% of its homes; 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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