Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Model City of Mount Royal · Photo: Mtlfiredude · CC BY-SA 3.0The typical town has 18%: Mont-Royal has 3.6 times the share. Its 1 historic place is of the highest rank. Per resident that is more than in 74% of Canadian towns: 0.4 for every 10,000 people. It is Model City of Mount Royal, a national historic site begun in 1915.
The oldest view of one of its historic places, made before 1950. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
c. 1913Public 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.
The first railway station on record, Ville-de-Mont-Royal, opened in 1918. A single date stands for Mont-Royal as a municipality on Wikidata, 1912, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. Mont-Royal takes its name from Mount Royal, hill in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Between them, 10 towns share them, mainly Édouard-Montpetit, Montagne and Mile End. Nearest comes Église de Saint-Laurent de Montréal, 2.2 km off, in Chameran/Montpellier. The earliest date is Hurtubise House’s, 1739, 4.8 km away.
| Église de Saint-Laurent de MontréalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1835–1837 · 2.2 km away, in Chameran/Montpellier |
| Roger-Gaudry BuildingNational Historic Site · 1928–1944 · 2.8 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
| Outremont TheatreNational Historic Site · 1928–1930 · 2.9 km away, in Outremont |
| Maison Simon-LacombeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1825–1848 · 3 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
| Rialto TheatreNational Historic Site · 1924–1925 · 3.3 km away, in Mile End |
| Monument des Patriotes-du-Cimetière-de-Notre-Dame-des-NeigesClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1858–1866 · 3.4 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges CemeteryNational Historic Site · 1854–1856 · 3.4 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
| Church of Notre-Dame-de-la-DéfenseNational Historic Site · 1918–1920 · 3.4 km away, in Saint-Édouard |
| Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount RoyalNational Historic Site · 1904–1967 · 3.5 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
| Cinéma Le ChâteauClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1931 · 3.5 km away, in Saint-Édouard |
| Mont-Royal Heritage SiteDeclared heritage site (Québec) · 3.6 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
| Mont-Royal Heritage SiteCited heritage site (Québec) · 3.6 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 7.5% of Mont-Royal’s, against 15% in the typical town. Few of Mont-Royal’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 6.1%, the norm 23%. Mont-Royal built little from 1961 to 1980: 19% of its homes, where most towns have 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Royal | 22,821 | 1 | 1 | 1915 |
| Parc-Kent | 27,291 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Parc-Extension | 29,066 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Savane | 32,028 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Chameran/Montpellier | 21,170 | 1 | 0 | 1835 |
| Outremont | 24,629 | 2 | 2 | 1852 |
| Édouard-Montpetit | 20,601 | 7 | 6 | 1825 |
Older stock first: 63% of homes in Mont-Royal were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Model City of Mount Royal. The rest is about typical: one historic place is about usual for its size (the median is 0); and its one place was designated in 2008.
Before 1961: 63% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Just one: Model City of Mount Royal.
Model City of Mount Royal — its record dates it to 1915 (National Historic Site).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · 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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