TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1834Palais de justice de Napierville361 rue Saint-JacquesPhoto: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Palais de justice de Napierville · Photo: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of Napierville · Canada’s heritage registers
Napierville: 1 historic place, with the highest designation
Palais de justice de Napierville, from 1834, is Napierville’s classified heritage building (québec). For the municipality itself, Wikidata has January 1, 1873, which can be an incorporation or a merger rather than a founding. Relative to its size Napierville has 2.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 87% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
1
2.4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Oldest building
1834
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
17%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Napierville’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Napierville with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
3 places of the highest rank within 10 km of Napierville
6 places lie within 10 km. By age, Maison Roy leads, from 1835, at 7.9 km. Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu and Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix hold most of them, among 4 towns.
The 6 nearest, within 10 km
| Cimetière DouglassCited heritage site (Québec) · 3.7 km away, in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville |
| Maison Nathaniel-DouglasCited heritage site (Québec) · 3.9 km away, in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville |
| Maison du Domaine-LakefieldClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1850–1900 · 5.2 km away, in Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu |
| Maison RoyClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1835–1837 · 7.9 km away, in Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu |
| Site patrimonial Obed-StottCited heritage site (Québec) · 9.2 km away, in Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix |
| Chapelle-reposoir de Saint-Jacques-le-MineurClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1889 · 9.8 km away, in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur |
Homes by age
Napierville built the most from 2001 to 2015, 29% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Napierville’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 2016 to 2021 make up 6.1% of Napierville’s, above the typical 4.1%. Before 1961: 17% of Napierville’s homes, near the usual 18%.
17%
Before 1961
25%
1961–80
23%
1981–2000
29%
2001–15
6.1%
2016–21
NapiervilleTypical 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
Napierville’s 6 natives of the years before 1914
The oldest birth on the record is Sixte Coupal dit la Reine’s, in 1825. Most of them, 3 of 6, came into the world in the years before Confederation. At 92, Léon Raymond outlived the rest, dying in 1993. By Wikipedia’s reach, Wilfrid Derome leads, with 5 articles.
Sixte Coupal dit la Reine
James Reilly
Médéric Catudal
Wilfrid Derome
Léon Raymond
Noël Mailloux
1800182518501875190019251950
Wilfrid Derome1877–1931 · Canadian forensic scientist
LR
Léon Raymond1901–1993 · Canadian politician
Sixte Coupal dit la Reine1825–1891 · Canadian politician
MC
Médéric Catudal1856–1939 · Canadian politician
NM
Noël Mailloux1909–1997 · Canadian Dominican, philosopher and psychologist
James Reilly1835–1909 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Napierville → 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 its size
Napierville has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,200 to 4,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Napierville1
Only Carleton-sur-Mer has more. The middle one has 0. 13 of them have none.
Neighbours
Napierville and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Napierville | 4,187 | 1 | 1 | 1834 |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville | 1,786 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu | 2,165 | 1 | 1 | 1835 |
| Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur | 1,907 | 1 | 1 | 1889 |
| Saint-Édouard | 1,438 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington | 1,996 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix | 2,321 | 10 | 5 | 1759 |
In brief
Napierville in brief
Napierville holds 1 historic place on Canada’s registers, one with the highest designation, including Palais de justice de Napierville. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. Wilfrid Derome (1877), Léon Raymond (1901) and Sixte Coupal dit la Reine (1825) lead its people of the past. Its housing is young: only 17% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its designation dates from 1961.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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 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.
Questions about Napierville’s history
Which places in Napierville have the highest designation?
It is Palais de justice de Napierville.
What is the oldest building in Napierville?
Palais de justice de Napierville (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1834.
How old are the homes in Napierville?
17% 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.
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).