Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Lenoblet-Du Plessis · Photo: Domray · CC BY-SA 3.0Inside Contrecoeur there are 2 historic places, all of them top designations. Relative to its size the figure is 1.9 per 10,000 residents, more than in 85% of Canadian towns.
Both places on Contrecoeur’s registers have a photo here. For 2 of Contrecoeur’s places, old views sit on the place’s own page. Leading off: Maison Lenoblet-Du Plessis and Moulin à vent de Contrecœur.
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.
On one line by date: one old photograph of the town and the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. Swipe along the strip; each picture opens at full size.
c. 1910
c. 1920
c. 1920Public 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.
In 1976 the municipality took over from Contrecœur and Contrecœur. Wikidata holds January 1, 1976 as the start of the municipality of Contrecoeur, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The oldest, Moulin à vent de Contrecœur, dates from 1742; the newest from 1794. Each one opens its own page.
Count to 10 km and there are 7. Closest of all is Saint-Ours Canal, in Saint-Ours, 5.9 km off. The oldest, Domaine seigneurial de Saint-Ours, dates from 1792, 6.5 km away.
| Saint-Ours CanalNational Historic Site · 1830–1834 · 5.9 km away, in Saint-Ours |
| Hôtel de ville de Saint-OursMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1882 · 6.3 km away, in Saint-Ours |
| Domaine seigneurial de Saint-OursClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1792 · 6.5 km away, in Saint-Ours |
| Maison HervieuxClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1835 · 6.9 km away, in Lanoraie |
| Troisième école de Côte-PlaisanceMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1954 · 8.2 km away, in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu |
| Maison Jean-Baptiste-MâsseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1809 · 9.9 km away, in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu |
| Maison François-CherrierClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1808–1811 · 10 km away, in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu |
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 33% of Contrecoeur’s, against 15% in the typical town. Like the typical town (18%), Contrecoeur has 15% of its homes from before 1961. Only 14% of Contrecoeur’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Joseph-Thomas Duhamel is the most written about, in 6 languages. Of them all, Hilaire Hurteau lived longest: 83 years, until 1920. Before 1914, 8 births here made the record. Most of them, 6 of 8, came into the world in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Contrecoeur → 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 10,600 to 10,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Eastern Passage. Their median is 0. 11 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contrecoeur | 10,708 | 2 | 2 | 1742 |
| Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu | 2,984 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lavaltrie | 15,996 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Ours | 1,817 | 3 | 2 | 1792 |
| Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu | 1,880 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu | 2,439 | 4 | 3 | 1802 |
| Lanoraie | 5,694 | 1 | 1 | 1835 |
The registers count 2 historic places in Contrecoeur, 2 with the highest designation, Moulin à vent de Contrecœur first. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Among the lives from its past: Joseph-Thomas Duhamel (1841), Joseph Edmond Marcile (1854) and Luc de la Corne (1711). Most of its homes are post-1960: only 15% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, all its places were designated in 1983.
By its record, Moulin à vent de Contrecœur, from 1742 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
These: Moulin à vent de Contrecœur and Maison Lenoblet-Du Plessis.
15% predate 1961, where 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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