Photo: Guillaume Hébert-Jodoin · CC BY 3.0Rougemont and its setting: 65 historic places within 25 km
Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 9.9 km from Rougemont, has the nearest place of the highest rank. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is January 26, 2000: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Nearest to Rougemont: Couvent des Sœurs de la Présentation de Marie, 5 km away
65 places lie within 25 km. Among them are 21 municipal citations, 19 places classified by Québec and 14 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Its 27 places of national rank start with Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, at 11 km.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Couvent des Sœurs de la Présentation de MarieMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1857 · 5 km away, in Saint-Césaire |
| Moulin à eau de la Grande BarbueMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1829 · 10 km away, in Saint-Césaire |
| Église Saint-Jean-BaptisteClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1807–1810 · 11 km away, in Saint-Jean-Baptiste |
| Hôtel de ville de Saint-Jean-BaptisteMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1797 · 11 km away, in Saint-Jean-Baptiste |
| Ensemble religieux de Saint-Paul-d'AbbotsfordClassified heritage site (Québec) · 12 km away, in Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford |
| Manoir RollandClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1830 · 12 km away, in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu |
| Maison natale Ozias-LeducMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1800–1850 · 16 km away, in Mont-Saint-Hilaire |
| Lockstation Cabin 8Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1906–1910 · 16 km away, in Carignan |
| Maison Thomas-WhiteheadClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1815–1816 · 17 km away, in Chambly |
| Site patrimonial de la Maison-Thomas-WhiteheadClassified heritage site (Québec) · 17 km away, in Chambly |
| Lockstation Cabin 7Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1906–1910 · 17 km away, in Chambly |
| Cabin at Bridge 2Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1906–1908 · 17 km away, in Chambly |
Near Rougemont, within 25 km: built places from 1665 on
No place near Rougemont is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
The chart rests on 61 dated places within 25 km. 33 predate Confederation. The oldest is Fort Chambly in Chambly, from 1665.
6.7% of Rougemont’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Like the typical town (18%), Rougemont has 21% of its homes from before 1961. Rougemont’s largest group of homes, 31%, went up from 1981 to 2000. Count back from today and half of Rougemont’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.
Rougemont and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rougemont | 2,832 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Césaire | 6,150 | 2 | 0 | 1829 |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir | 1,862 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Damase | 2,390 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Marieville | 11,910 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste | 3,332 | 2 | 1 | 1797 |
| Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford | 2,891 | 1 | 1 | — |
Rougemont in brief
Counted by age, 21% of Rougemont’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no historic place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- 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.
- 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.
- Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
- 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.
Questions about Rougemont’s history
How many historic places does Rougemont have on the registers?
Not inside Rougemont. The closest is Couvent des Sœurs de la Présentation de Marie in Saint-Césaire, 5 km away.
When did Rougemont become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Rougemont is January 26, 2000, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Rougemont?
Before 1961: 21% 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).