Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Salle anglicane du complexe St. James · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Counted by designation, there are 2 municipal citations and a heritage railway station. The earliest construction date, 1887, belongs to Salle anglicane du complexe St. James. Measured against its size, Farnham’s 2.7 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 89% of Canadian towns. Homes from before 1961 make up 31% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town.
Among them: Salle anglicane du complexe St. James and “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Farnham, Quebec”. The photos cover every place on Farnham’s registers. 3 different photographers shared them on Wikimedia Commons.
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.
Farnham was known as Farnham Ouest until 1876. Farnham, Quebec railway station, the earliest station on record, opened in 1951. Wikidata holds January 1, 1862 as the start of the municipality of Farnham, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s 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.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Their designations span 2007 to 2008. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Start with Salle anglicane du complexe St. James and Ensemble institutionnel de Saint-Romuald. Each one opens its own page.
Count back from today and half of Farnham’s homes are older than 1981. Few of Farnham’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 13%, the norm 23%. 25% of Farnham’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Most of them, 7 of 10, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. Longest lived was Ludger Lemieux, 81 years in all (1953). Before 1914, 10 births here made the record. The widest known is H. H. Bennett: 5 Wikipedia editions.
Everyone born in Farnham → 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 11,300 to 11,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: La Tuque, Montmagny and Milton-Parc. The typical town its size has 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farnham | 11,315 | 3 | 0 | 1887 |
| Sainte-Sabine | 1,123 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville | 1,540 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ange-Gardien | 3,100 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Alexandre | 2,685 | 1 | 0 | 1945 |
| Brigham | 2,386 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Césaire | 6,150 | 2 | 0 | 1829 |
The pre-1961 share of Farnham’s homes is 31%, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 3 historic places. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Its people of the past include H. H. Bennett (1843), Alfred Duranleau (1871) and Ludger Lemieux (1872). The rest is about typical: the designations ran from 1995 to 2008.
Inside Farnham: 3 historic places.
Before 1961: 31% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Salle anglicane du complexe St. James (Municipal citation (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1887.
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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