National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
3
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1685
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
16%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Photos of all 5 top-tier places in Longueuil
The set opens with Fort Longueuil and Maison Patenaude. Each of Longueuil’s designated places has a photo. Credit goes to 5 photographers, each named on the photo.
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.
Through time
The past of Longueuil, 1810 to 1923
4 old photographs of the town, joined by the oldest view of one of its historic places, from oldest to latest. Swipe along the strip; each picture opens at full size.
1800182518501875190019251950Before ConfederationConfederation to 1900Boom yearsThe wars and betweenAfter the war
Public 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.
How old
Most of Longueuil’s dated places come from the years of New France
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
New France before 17604
British North America 1760–18661
After Confederation 1867–19131
Wars and Depression 1914–19451
Since 1946 1946 on0
Before 1867: 5 of the 7 with a date.
How it began
From 1657: how Longueuil got started
The founding of Longueuil goes back to Charles Le Moyne, in 1657. It has been 369 years since then. On Wikidata the municipality of Longueuil dates to June 14, 1848, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings400 m from Co-Cathedral of Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue
3 of 5within 400 m of Co-Cathedral of Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue, the heart of the town’s history
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 8, by tier
5 Highest designations3 Provincial and local listings
In Québec the record is fuller than elsewhere: beside Parks Canada’s designations, the province’s register lists its classements and every municipal citation.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
5 places in Longueuil with the highest designation
Designations came from 1923 to 2012. They are 4 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.
The list spans 5 kinds of place. Two of the highest-ranked are Fort Longueuil and Maison Patenaude.
Houses4
Churches and religious buildings1
Forts and military buildings1
Mills, shops and works1
Other places1
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Provincial and local listings
On provincial and local lists in Longueuil: 3 places
They date from 1690 (Maison Michel-Dubuc) to 1937. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The first was designated in 1993, the latest in 1997. Each one opens its own page.
New homes stand out in Longueuil: 6.7% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
More of Longueuil’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 39%. Homes from before 1961 are 16% of Longueuil’s housing, about the typical 18%. Half of the homes standing in Longueuil today were built before 1981.
16%
Before 1961
39%
1961–80
25%
1981–2000
13%
2001–15
6.7%
2016–21
LongueuilTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Born in Longueuil, 1687 to 1907
Of the 16, 9 were born in the years before Confederation. 8 Wikipedias cover Rosario Bourdon, the most of anyone here. 16 people on the record were born here before 1914. The longest life was Roland Leduc’s: 94 years, to 2001.
Charles III Le Moyne
Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil
Edme Henry
Séraphin Cherrier
André Achim
Pierre Benoit
Jules-Isaïe Benoît
Pierre Basile Benoit
Charles-Théodore Viau
Raymond Préfontaine
Eugène Lafleur
John Aird
Rosario Bourdon
Judith Sainte-Marie
Paul Pratt
Roland Leduc
1650170017501800185019001950
Rosario Bourdon1885–1961 · French Canadian cellist, violinist, conductor, arranger and composer
Jules-Isaïe Benoît1830–1865 · Canadian photographer
Raymond Préfontaine1850–1905 · Former mayor of Montreal, Quebec
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Paul Pratt1894–1967 · Canadian clarinetist, pianist, conductor, music educator, composer
Charles III Le Moyne1687–1755 · French noble, Governor of Montreal
Pierre Basile Benoit1837–1910 · Canadian politician
Eugène Lafleur1856–1930 · Canadian lawyer and jurist
John Aird1885–1938 · Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce president
Everyone born in Longueuil → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Canada’s heritage lists give Longueuil 8 historic places, 5 with the highest designation, Fort Longueuil among them. Co-Cathedral of Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue sits at the heart of it, with 3 of the town’s places of the highest designation within 400 m. Dates cluster in the years of New France: 4 of 7.
Among the lives from its past: Rosario Bourdon (1885), Jules-Isaïe Benoît (1830) and Raymond Préfontaine (1850). Few of its homes are old, 16% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: its places were designated between 1923 and 2012.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
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The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
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The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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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.
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Québec’s register. Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel records the province’s classements and declarations and every municipal citation, each with a description and a point.
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Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
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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 Longueuil’s history
What is the oldest building in Longueuil?
By its record, Fort Longueuil, from 1685 (National Historic Site).
Which places in Longueuil have the highest designation?
Fort Longueuil, Maison Patenaude, Maison Lamarre, Maison Marie-Rose-Durocher and Co-Cathedral of Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue.
How old are the homes in Longueuil?
16% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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.
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