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Noyau institutionnel de Knowlton · Photo: MTLskyline · CC BY-SA 3.0Measured against its size, Lac-Brome’s 1.6 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 83% of Canadian towns. Just beyond the boundary, the registers place one more.
Wikidata gives the municipality of Lac-Brome the date January 2, 1971, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. Behind the name Lac-Brome is Lac Brome, lake in Quebec, Canada. The municipality succeeded Brome, Foster and Knowlton in 1971.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
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Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
No place near Lac-Brome is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
Dated places within 25 km: 13. 3 predate Confederation. Église Saint-Matthew de Stukely-Sud, in Stukely-Sud, goes back furthest, to 1854.
Closest of all is Manoir Maplewood, in Waterloo, 12 km off. They are spread over 7 towns, including Bolton-Est, Waterloo and Austin. Within 25 km there are 13 in all.
| Manoir MaplewoodMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1864–1865 · 12 km away, in Waterloo |
| Église Saint-Luke de WaterlooClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1867–1870 · 12 km away, in Waterloo |
| Église universaliste de WaterlooMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1870 · 13 km away, in Waterloo |
| Église Saint-Matthew de Stukely-SudMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1854–1856 · 14 km away, in Stukely-Sud |
| Bolton-Est Town HallNational Historic Site · 1867–1868 · 14 km away, in Bolton-Est |
| Église Saint-Patrick de Bolton CentreMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1873–1876 · 14 km away, in Bolton-Est |
| Église Methodist UnitedMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1879 · 15 km away, in Bolton-Est |
| Église Holy Trinity de South BoltonMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1860 · 16 km away, in Bolton-Est |
| Résidence George-Knight-NesbittMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1881 · 17 km away, in Cowansville |
| Complexe des moulins d'AustinCited heritage site (Québec) · 20 km away, in Austin |
| Grange circulaire Damase-Amédée-DufresneClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1907 · 22 km away, in Austin |
| Grange ronde de MansonvilleMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1911 · 23 km away, in Potton |
| Église Saint-Andrew de The PassMunicipal citation (Québec) · 2.2 km outside the town |
Count back from today and half of Lac-Brome’s homes are older than 1981. New building is strong in Lac-Brome: 5.3% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. 18% of Lac-Brome’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The longest life here was Frank Oliver Call’s, 78 years, ending in 1956. Before 1914, 6 births here made the record. George Green Foster is the most written about, in 5 languages. Most of them, 4 of 6, came into the world in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Lac-Brome → 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 6,300 to 6,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Woodstock, Beasley and Neepawa have more. The middle one has 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Brome | 6,307 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Waterloo | 5,714 | 3 | 1 | 1864 |
| Bromont | 12,413 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bolton-Est | 1,337 | 4 | 1 | 1860 |
| Shefford | 7,704 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sutton | 4,775 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stukely-Sud | 1,242 | 1 | 0 | 1854 |
Of the homes standing in Lac-Brome, 28% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are George Green Foster (1860), Sally Elizabeth Wood (1857) and Frank Oliver Call (1878). The rest is about typical: its one place was designated in 1993.
Inside Lac-Brome: 1 historic place.
28% 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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