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Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Rigaud, Quebec · Photo: Michelsimard · CC BY-SA 3.0Counted by designation, there are a municipal citation and a heritage railway station. Ancien hôtel de ville de Rigaud, begun in 1834, is the oldest by its record. Rigaud has 2.4 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 88% of Canadian towns.
Leading off: “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Rigaud, Quebec” and Ancien hôtel de ville de Rigaud. Photos show both of the places Rigaud’s registers name.
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 view of one of its historic places, made before 1950. Tap it to see it full screen.
1900–1910Public 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.
By 1891 the place had a station: Rigaud. As a municipality, Rigaud carries the date November 29, 1995 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
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.
The federal directory and the Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec are both open, so every federal, provincial and municipal designation here has its point.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
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.
They belong to 2 towns, chiefly Saint-Placide and Saint-André-d'Argenteuil. Count to 10 km and there are 3. Among them are 2 places classified by Québec and a municipal citation.
| Secteur Basile-RouthierCited heritage site (Québec) · 8 km away, in Saint-Placide |
| Maison Adolphe-Basile-RouthierClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1841 · 8.1 km away, in Saint-Placide |
| Église Christ Church de Saint-André-d'ArgenteuilClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1819–1828 · 9.9 km away, in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil |
Rigaud’s largest group of homes, 25%, went up from 1961 to 1980. 21% of Rigaud’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 24% of Rigaud’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In 1803 came the earliest, Jean-Baptiste Mongenais. Most of them, 8 of 9, came into the world in the years before Confederation. At the other end is Regina Seiden, from 1897. 4 Wikipedias cover Hugh McMillan, the most of anyone here.
Everyone born in Rigaud → 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 of 8,100 to 8,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Their median is 0. 10 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rigaud | 8,187 | 2 | 0 | 1834 |
| Très-Saint-Rédempteur | 1,163 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Placide | 1,751 | 2 | 1 | 1841 |
| Sainte-Marthe | 1,065 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil | 3,300 | 5 | 3 | 1800 |
| Hudson | 5,533 | 4 | 1 | 1904 |
| Kanesatake | 1,872 | 0 | 0 | — |
Rigaud’s homes from before 1961 come to 21%, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 2 historic places. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Hugh McMillan (1839), Jean-Baptiste Mongenais (1803) and Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron (1854) are the best known of its historic lives. For the rest, the designations ran from 1991 to 1994.
Inside Rigaud: 2 historic places.
Ancien hôtel de ville de Rigaud (Municipal citation (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1834.
21% 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).
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