Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Vieille Poste · Photo: Nicriv · CC BY-SA 3.0The record has 6 municipal citations. For its size Coaticook is rich ground: 7.8 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 97% of Canadian towns. Older housing stands out: 36% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Go back to 1837 and you reach Église baptiste de Barnston, the oldest of them.
All of Coaticook’s designated places are pictured. Up first are Château Arthur-Osmore-Norton and Vieille Poste. They come from 4 photographers.
Château Arthur-Osmore-Norton
Grange de la Ferme-du-Plateau-de-Coaticook
Coaticook railway station
Église baptiste de Barnston
Secteur Saint-Edmond+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.
A single old picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1910Public 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.
By 1904 the place had a station: Coaticook railway station. The municipality of Coaticook has the date January 1, 1864 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open 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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
All told, 4 kinds of place appear. The first by rank are Château Arthur-Osmore-Norton and Église baptiste de Barnston.
Kinds read from each place’s name and the functions its register gives; a building keeps the kind it was built as.
The first was designated in 1988, the latest in 2010. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their dates run from 1837, with Église baptiste de Barnston, to 1923. Each one opens its own page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
One of the 6 dated places was built before Confederation.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Border Crossing FacilityRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 700 m outside the town |
| Église Saint-Wilfrid de KingscroftMunicipal citation (Québec) · 3 km outside the town |
| Église Saint-Herménégilde de Saint-HerménégildeMunicipal citation (Québec) · 3.1 km outside the town |
| Grange ronde Stanley-HolmesMunicipal citation (Québec) · 3.6 km outside the town |
| Way's MillsCited heritage site (Québec) · 3.7 km outside the town |
Over half of the homes in Coaticook were already standing by 1981. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 3.6% of Coaticook’s, about the typical 4.1%. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Coaticook 24% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In 1824 came the earliest, Thomas Locke. The longest life was William Lewis Shurtleff’s: 90 years, to 1954. At the other end is Henri Gérin, from 1900. Best known is Henry Lovell, with articles in 4 Wikipedia languages.
Everyone born in Coaticook → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 9,000 to 9,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Chelsea. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coaticook | 9,027 | 7 | 1 | 1837 |
| Compton | 3,351 | 3 | 1 | 1839 |
| Ayer's Cliff | 1,284 | 0 | 0 | — |
The 2021 Census dates 36% of Coaticook’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 7 historic places, one with the highest designation, led by Château Arthur-Osmore-Norton. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places.
4 of the 6 dated places belong to the decades after Confederation. Its people of the past include Henry Lovell (1828), Charles Henry Lovell (1854) and William Lewis Shurtleff (1864). Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1988 and 2012.
The 2021 Census dates 36% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Just one: Château Arthur-Osmore-Norton.
Église baptiste de Barnston, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1837.
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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