Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Église d'Odelltown · Photo: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0The record has 3 municipal citations and a heritage railway station. Lacolle’s 21 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 99% of Canadian towns. Older housing stands out: 34% of homes predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Battle of Lacolle, begun in 1814, is the oldest by its record.
Every place on Lacolle’s registers has a photo here. For 2 of Lacolle’s places, old views sit on the place’s own page. Two worth a look first: Église d'Odelltown and Battle of Lacolle.
Battle of Lacolle
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Lacolle, Quebec
1, rue de l'Église Sud
48, rue Van Vliet
Église anglicane Saint-Saviour (Lacolle, Quebec)+1See all photosPhotos 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.
By date: one old photograph of the town, with the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. Scroll the strip and tap a picture to open it.
1840c. 1923
1933Public 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.
On the open record, Lacolle as a municipality goes back to September 13, 2001, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Rail service is on record from 1930, when Lacolle railway station opened. Lacolle and Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel gave way to the present municipality in 2001.
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.
They include Battle of Lacolle and Église d'Odelltown. By designation: a National Historic Site and a place classified by Québec. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Leading by designation: Battle of Lacolle and Église d'Odelltown.
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their dates run from 1880, with “Église anglicane Saint-Saviour (Lacolle, Quebec)”, to 1890. Each one opens its own page.
More than half of Lacolle’s housing predates 1981. Few of Lacolle’s homes date from 1961 to 1980: 21%, the norm 27%. 24% of Lacolle’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to 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.
The line ends with Adélard Trottier (1879). Best known is Francis Morice, with articles in 4 Wikipedia languages. It starts with Francis Morice, born in 1851. At 76, Adélard Trottier outlived the rest, dying in 1955.
Everyone born in Lacolle → 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 2,800 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. For 9, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacolle | 2,806 | 6 | 2 | 1814 |
| Noyan | 1,576 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix | 2,321 | 10 | 5 | 1759 |
| Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle | 1,655 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville | 1,786 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Napierville | 4,187 | 1 | 1 | 1834 |
| Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu | 2,165 | 1 | 1 | 1835 |
Of the homes standing in Lacolle, 34% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 6 historic places, 2 with the highest designation. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. The town’s people of the past are Francis Morice (1851), Adélard Trottier (1879) and Thomas E. Walsh (1853). Everything else is close to the norm: the designations ran from 1923 to 1991.
The 2021 Census dates 34% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
These: Battle of Lacolle and Église d'Odelltown.
By its record, Battle of Lacolle, from 1814 (National Historic Site).
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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