Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Lachute, Quebec · Photo: Michèle Séguin · CC BY-SA 3.0Counted by designation, there are a heritage railway station and a municipal citation. The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 33%. Go back to 1887 and you reach Édifice centenaire de la municipalité régionale de comté d'Argenteuil, the oldest of them. Lachute has 1.3 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 81% of Canadian towns.
Both of Lachute’s designated places are pictured. Two worth a look first: “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Lachute, Quebec” and Édifice centenaire de la municipalité régionale de comté d'Argenteuil.
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 the open record, Lachute as a municipality goes back to 1753, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Rail service is on record from 1887, when Lachute railway station opened.
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.
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.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Collector's House in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil is the nearest, 10 km away. All told, 3 places are within 10 km. Among them are 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and a National Historic Site.
| Collector's HouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1842–1844 · 10 km away, in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil |
| Superintendent's ResidenceRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1842–1844 · 10 km away, in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil |
| Carillon CanalNational Historic Site · 1826–1834 · 10 km away, in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil |
Count back from today and half of Lachute’s homes are older than 1981. Few of Lachute’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 14%, the norm 23%. 27% of Lachute’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.
The record holds 14 people born here before 1914. Most of them, 8 of 14, came into the world in the years before Confederation. Of them all, Salem Bland lived longest: 91 years, until 1950. By Wikipedia’s reach, Arthur Philemon Coleman leads, with 10 articles.
Everyone born in Lachute → 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 15,300 to 15,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Gaspé and Vieux-Longueuil. Their median is 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lachute | 15,469 | 2 | 0 | 1887 |
| Brownsburg-Chatham | 8,466 | 1 | 0 | 1836 |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil | 3,300 | 5 | 3 | 1800 |
| Gore | 2,756 | 0 | 0 | — |
| East Hawkesbury | 3,787 | 1 | 1 | 1817 |
| Saint-Placide | 1,751 | 2 | 1 | 1841 |
The 2021 Census dates 33% of Lachute’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 2 historic places. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are Arthur Philemon Coleman (1852), William Scott Maclaren (1845) and Thain Wendell MacDowell (1890). The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1992 and 2007.
2 historic places inside Lachute, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
33% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Édifice centenaire de la municipalité régionale de comté d'Argenteuil (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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