Résidence du Bon-Pasteur · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0
3historic places on the registers
History of Champlain · Canada’s heritage registers
An older town: 39% of Champlain’s homes predate 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Champlain has 2.2 times as much. The registers put 3 historic places inside its boundary, one of them of the highest rank. On the list: 2 municipal citations. The earliest construction date, 1878, belongs to Church of Our Lady of the Visitation.
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
2
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1878
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
39%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
2 photos of Champlain’s landmarks, and 1 from before 1950
Photos show 2 of the places Champlain’s registers name; the others show their record instead. Leading off: Church of Our Lady of the Visitation and Résidence du Bon-Pasteur.
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.
Through time
Old pictures of Champlain
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1909Boom yearsPresbytère et l'église de la Visitation-de-Champlain . - 1909Public domain
Public 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.
How it began
Champlain’s milestones, starting in 1982
The name Champlain comes from Samuel de Champlain, 16/17th-century French explorer of North America. A reorganization in 1982 folded in Champlain and La Visitation-de-Champlain. Wikidata gives the municipality of Champlain the date December 11, 1982, 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
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 3, by tier
1 Highest designations2 Provincial and local listings
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.
Highest designations
Champlain’s top designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
On provincial and local lists in Champlain: 2 places
Start with Résidence du Bon-Pasteur and “975, rue Notre-Dame”. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their designations span 1993 to 2010. Each one opens its own page.
5.2% of Champlain’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Count back from today and half of Champlain’s homes are older than 1981. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 19% of Champlain’s, against 27% in the typical town. Building from 1981 to 2000 gave Champlain 22% of its homes, near the usual 23%.
39%
Before 1961
19%
1961–80
22%
1981–2000
16%
2001–15
5.2%
2016–21
ChamplainTypical 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
9 lives that began in Champlain before 1914
Rodrigue Larue closes the list, born in 1913. By Wikipedia’s reach, Julien Dubuque leads, with 7 articles. Most of them, 5 of 9, came into the world in the years before Confederation. The longest life was Georges Ball’s: 90 years, to 1928.
Paul-Louis Dazemard de Lusignan
Étienne Le Blanc
Julien Dubuque
Ovide Le Blanc
Georges Ball
Onésime Carignan
Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Lamothe
Télesphore St. Arnaud
Rodrigue Larue
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JD
Julien Dubuque1762–1810 · French Canadian explorer and pioneer
GB
Georges Ball1838–1928 · Canadian politician
OC
Onésime Carignan1839–1897 · Canadian politician
JL
Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Lamothe1856–1922 · Canadian politician
OB
Ovide Le Blanc1801–1870 · Canadian politician
TA
Télesphore St. Arnaud1870–1948 · Canadian politician
PL
Paul-Louis Dazemard de Lusignan1691–1764
ÉB
Étienne Le Blanc1759–1831 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Champlain → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Housing in Champlain includes 39% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, including Church of Our Lady of the Visitation. Among the lives from its past: Julien Dubuque (1762), Georges Ball (1838) and Onésime Carignan (1839). The other figures are unremarkable: the designations ran from 1993 to 2010.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
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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. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
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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.
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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.
Questions about Champlain’s history
How old are the homes in Champlain?
39% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Champlain have the highest designation?
Just one: Church of Our Lady of the Visitation.
What is the oldest building in Champlain?
Church of Our Lady of the Visitation (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1878.
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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