Photo: Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Upper Lachine keeps its older homes: 45% from before 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Upper Lachine has 2.6 times as much. Lachine Canal, 1.1 km from Upper Lachine, heads a list of 53 historic places within 5 km. Look 900 m away, to Côte-Saint-Antoine, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
Near Upper Lachine (5 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation
Within 5 km of Upper Lachine but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
47 dated places within 5 km make up the record. 16 go back before 1867. The oldest is Sulpician Towers / Fort de la Montagne in Montagne, from 1694.
The registers find 53 places within 5 km of Upper Lachine
Lachine Canal in Ville-Émard is the nearest, 1.1 km away. Between them, 11 towns share them, mainly Montagne, Westmount and Édouard-Montpetit. Sulpician Towers / Fort de la Montagne, 4.1 km off, is the oldest: 1694.
The 12 nearest, within 5 km
| Lachine CanalNational Historic Site · 1821–1826 · 1.1 km away, in Ville-Émard |
| Monklands / Villa Maria ConventNational Historic Site · 1794–1795 · 1.6 km away, in Côte-Saint-Antoine |
| MonklandsClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1803 · 1.7 km away, in Côte-Saint-Antoine |
| Hurtubise HouseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1739 · 1.9 km away, in Westmount |
| Site patrimonial de la Maison-HurtubiseClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1.9 km away, in Westmount |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Westmount, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1896–1897 · 2.1 km away, in Westmount |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1925–1926 · 2.5 km away, in Westmount |
| Côte-Saint-Paul Heritage SiteCited heritage site (Québec) · 2.7 km away, in Côte-Saint-Paul |
| Westmount DistrictNational Historic Site · 1890 · 2.8 km away, in Westmount |
| Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount RoyalNational Historic Site · 1904–1967 · 2.8 km away, in Édouard-Montpetit |
| Maisons Louis-et-Joseph-RichardMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1889–1890 · 3.1 km away, in Saint-Henri |
| Church of Saint-Léon-de-WestmountNational Historic Site · 1901–1904 · 3.1 km away, in Westmount |
New homes are rare in Upper Lachine: 2.4% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 7.6% of Upper Lachine’s, against 15% in the typical town. Only 12% of Upper Lachine’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Half of the homes standing in Upper Lachine today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Upper Lachine compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 20,900 to 21,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Sturgeon County and Chameran/Montpellier. The middle one has 0. 14 of them have nothing on the registers.
Upper Lachine and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Lachine | 21,130 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Côte-Saint-Antoine | 20,415 | 2 | 2 | 1794 |
| Loyola | 26,607 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Snowdon | 22,511 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hampstead | 7,464 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ville-Émard | 13,826 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Westmount | 20,377 | 9 | 7 | 1739 |
Upper Lachine in brief
Older stock first: 45% of homes in Upper Lachine were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- 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.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
- 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 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.
Questions about Upper Lachine’s history
How many historic places does Upper Lachine have on the registers?
None inside Upper Lachine yet. The nearest, Lachine Canal, carries the highest designation, 1.1 km away in Ville-Émard.
How old are the homes in Upper Lachine?
Before 1961: 45% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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).