TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1794Maison Pierre-Charray1037 chemin du FleuvePhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Maison Pierre-Charray · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.03historic places on the registers
History of Les Cèdres · Canada’s heritage registers
Les Cèdres keeps a building from 1776: Battle of the Cedars
The registers list 3 historic places inside Les Cèdres, every one with the highest designation. For its size this is rich ground: 4.2 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 94% of Canadian towns. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from March 9, 1985, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding.
Historic places
3
4.2 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
3
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Oldest building
1776
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
13%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
2 of Les Cèdres’s 3 highest-designated places, photographed
2 of the top-tier places in Les Cèdres have a photo. 2 designated places in Les Cèdres have a photo. Maison Pierre-Charray and Le Petit Pouvoir lead the set.
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.
The map
Where Les Cèdres’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 3, by tier
3 Highest designations
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.
Highest designations
3 places in Les Cèdres with the highest designation
The first was designated in 1923, the latest in 1984. By designation: 2 places classified by Québec and a National Historic Site. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1899Le Petit Pouvoir2100 chemin du FleuvePhoto: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
National Historic Site · 1776Battle of the CedarsRiver Road
Homes by age
Pre-1961 homes are scarce in Les Cèdres: 13%, against a usual 18%
Only 20% of Les Cèdres’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 30% of Les Cèdres’s, against 15% in the typical town. The largest single period is from 1981 to 2000, with 31% of Les Cèdres’s homes.
13%
Before 1961
20%
1961–80
31%
1981–2000
30%
2001–15
5.4%
2016–21
Les CèdresTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Les Cèdres has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,100 to 7,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Les Cèdres3
The middle one has 1. 8 of them have none.
Neighbours
Les Cèdres and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Cèdres | 7,145 | 3 | 3 | 1776 |
| Pointe-des-Cascades | 1,867 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion | 46,413 | 10 | 7 | 1784 |
| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield | 47,002 | 5 | 3 | 1842 |
| Pincourt | 15,220 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Coteau-du-Lac | 7,839 | 2 | 1 | 1779 |
| Terrasse-Vaudreuil | 1,883 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Les Cèdres in brief
Les Cèdres has 3 historic places, 3 with the highest designation. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. Most of its homes are post-1960: only 13% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: one person of its past, Dominique-Amable Coutlée (1822); and the list grew between 1923 and 1984.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
Questions about Les Cèdres’s history
What is the oldest building in Les Cèdres?
Battle of the Cedars, a National Historic Site, begun in 1776.
Which places in Les Cèdres have the highest designation?
They are Battle of the Cedars, Maison Pierre-Charray and Le Petit Pouvoir.
How old are the homes in Les Cèdres?
The 2021 Census dates 13% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).