Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Hudson Town Hall · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Hudson has 2.2 times what the typical town has (18%). The registers put 4 historic places inside its boundary, one of them of the highest rank. Per resident it outdoes 97% of Canadian towns, with 7.2 for every 10,000 people. The list takes in 3 municipal citations.
Two worth a look first: Hudson Town Hall and Maison Halcro. There are photos here of 3 of Hudson’s designated places. Of the places pictured in Hudson, Hudson Town Hall is the oldest, from 1904.
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.
June 7, 1969 is the date of Hudson’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes. In 1969 the municipality took over from Como-Est, Hudson and Hudson Heights.
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.
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
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.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The oldest, Hudson Town Hall, dates from 1904; the newest from 1909. Each one opens its own page.
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 are 5.1% of Hudson’s, about the typical 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Hudson’s homes are older than 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Hudson 23% 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.
Towns of 5,500 to 5,600 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson | 5,533 | 4 | 1 | 1904 |
| Kanesatake | 1,872 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Lazare | 22,895 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Oka | 4,312 | 5 | 4 | 1740 |
| Saint-Placide | 1,751 | 2 | 1 | 1841 |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac | 1,340 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion | 46,413 | 10 | 7 | 1784 |
The 2021 Census dates 38% of Hudson’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 4 historic places, one with the highest designation, with Site archéologique de l’Ancienne-Verrerie-Ottawa Glass Works first. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Beyond that, True Davidson (1901) and Frank Grisdale (1887) are its people of the past on the record; and its places were designated between 2012 and 2023.
38% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Site archéologique de l’Ancienne-Verrerie-Ottawa Glass Works.
Hudson Town Hall (Municipal citation (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1904.
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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