Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Église de la Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0The registers list 3 historic places inside Repentigny, every one with the highest designation. For every 10,000 residents that makes 0.3, ahead of 72% of Canadian towns. Its housing is mostly newer: 6.9% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Begin with Église de la Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie, then Moulin à vent Grenier. Every place on Repentigny’s registers has a photo here. On their own pages, 2 of Repentigny’s places show how they once looked.
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 oldest views of 2 of its historic places, from oldest to latest. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
1908–1911
c. 1936Public 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.
Repentigny is named after Pierre Legardeur, lord in New France. The municipality of Repentigny has the date 1669 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation.
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.
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.
Their designations span 1975 to 1978. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The oldest, Église de la Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie, dates from 1723; the newest from 1823. Each one opens its own page.
Repentigny’s largest group of homes, 38%, went up from 1981 to 2000. 21% of Repentigny’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Count back from today and half of Repentigny’s homes are older than 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The widest known is Joe Juneau: 8 Wikipedia editions. Most of them, 4 of 6, came into the world in the years before Confederation. Côme-Séraphin Cherrier comes first, born in 1798. At 87, Côme-Séraphin Cherrier outlived the rest, dying in 1885.
Everyone born in Repentigny → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repentigny | 91,290 | 3 | 3 | 1723 |
| Charlemagne | 6,695 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Verchères | 5,819 | 4 | 3 | 1692 |
| Varennes | 21,490 | 5 | 5 | 1750 |
| Saint-Sulpice | 3,688 | 2 | 2 | 1830 |
| L'Assomption | 25,126 | 5 | 2 | 1811 |
| L'Épiphanie | 9,254 | 1 | 1 | 1785 |
Canada’s heritage lists give Repentigny 3 historic places, 3 with the highest designation. Joe Juneau (1836), Joseph Royal (1837) and Côme-Séraphin Cherrier (1798) are the best known of its historic lives. The census dates only 6.9% of its homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, it has 3 historic places, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 3); and its places were designated between 1975 and 1978.
Église de la Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1723.
They are Église de la Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie, Moulin à vent Grenier and Moulin à vent Antoine-Jetté.
6.9% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).
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