Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
O'Brien House · Photo: J.P. Labonte · CC BY-SA 4.0Counted by designation, there are 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 2 municipal citations. Scaled to its population Chelsea’s record is long: 13 per 10,000 residents, more than 99% of Canadian towns. Old Chease Protestant Cemetery, begun in 1835, is the oldest by its record.
Among Chelsea’s highest-designated places, one has a photo. Of the places on Chelsea’s registers, 7 have a photo here. Look out for First Geodetic Survey Station and O'Brien House.
First Geodetic Survey Station
Moorside, Garage and Servant's Quarters
Kingswood, Guest Cottage
Kingswood, Kingswood Cottage
Cimetière des Pionniers de Chelsea+2See 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.
One picture from before 1950: one old photograph of the town. Tap it to see it full screen.
c. 1921Public 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.
Until 1990, Chelsea was called Hull (Partie Ouest). Wikidata holds January 1, 1875 as the start of the municipality of Chelsea, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Chelsea, Quebec”, revision 1382696496 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
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.
They date from 1905 (First Geodetic Survey Station) to 1907. By designation: 5 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings 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. They date from 1902 (“Kingswood, Guest Cottage”) to 1930. Each one opens its own page.
The second-largest group is churches and religious buildings, with 3. Two of the highest-ranked are First Geodetic Survey Station and Chapel. By kind, the list runs to 4 groups.
Each place sits in one group, from its name first, then the uses its register lists.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They date from 1835 (Old Chease Protestant Cemetery) to 1837. Each one opens its own page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
Of the 12 with a date, 2 predate 1867.
The places by the year of their designation.
First Geodetic Survey Station went on the registers first, in 1929. 9 came in 1985. Nothing has been added since 2011.
Chelsea built little from 1961 to 1980: 21% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. The busiest building years in Chelsea were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 34% of today’s homes. Before 1961: 15% of Chelsea’s homes, near the usual 18%.
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 9,000 to 9,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea | 8,998 | 12 | 6 | 1835 |
| Cantley | 12,291 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hautes-Plaines | 6,353 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Les Rapides | 15,090 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Mont-Bleu | 21,636 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Du Plateau | 29,234 | 11 | 0 | 1850 |
| La Cité | 30,930 | 0 | 0 | — |
All told, Chelsea has 12 historic places, 6 with the highest designation; First Geodetic Survey Station heads the list. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Within 400 m of Chapel stand 5 of the town’s places of the highest designation. Of the whole list, 50% are houses.
8 of the 12 dated places belong to the decades after Confederation. Its oldest homes, those from before 1961, are 15% of the total, against 18% in the typical town. More than half went on the registers in a single year, 1985: 9 of 12.
First Geodetic Survey Station, Chapel, Garage and Caretaker's Quarters, Main House, Stable and Carriage House and Wood Shed.
Old Chease Protestant Cemetery — its record dates it to 1835 (Cited heritage site (Québec)).
15% 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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