Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Bureau d'enregistrement de Richmond · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0The typical town has 18%: Richmond has 3.1 times the share. Inside the town the registers count 3 historic places; one is a top designation. Scaled to its population the record is long: 8.8 per 10,000 residents, more than 97% of Canadian towns. The earliest construction date, 1859, belongs to Bureau d'enregistrement de Richmond.
You can start with Bureau d'enregistrement de Richmond and Centre d'interprétation de l'ardoise. Each of Richmond’s designated places has a 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.
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1910Public 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 name Richmond comes from Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond. Richmond Railway Station, the earliest station on record, opened in 1853. For the municipality of Richmond itself, Wikidata records December 29, 1999, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Few of Richmond’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 6.5%, the norm 15%. Richmond built little from 1981 to 2000: 14% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Count back from today and half of Richmond’s homes are older than 1961.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 3,400 to 3,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | 3,419 | 3 | 1 | 1859 |
| Cleveland | 1,624 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Melbourne | 1,128 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Durham-Sud | 1,041 | 1 | 0 | 1897 |
| Windsor | 5,368 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey | 1,550 | 1 | 0 | 1840 |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton | 2,650 | 0 | 0 | — |
Counted by age, 54% of Richmond’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Bureau d'enregistrement de Richmond heads them. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its places were designated between 1991 and 2012.
Before 1961: 54% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Just one: Bureau d'enregistrement de Richmond.
Bureau d'enregistrement de Richmond (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1859.
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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