Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAn older town: 44% of Saint-Hugues’s homes predate 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Saint-Hugues has 2.5 times as much. Saint-Guillaume Municipal Building, 13 km from Saint-Hugues, heads a list of 19 historic places within 25 km. Heritage of the first rank begins 19 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe. Trefflé Berthiaume heads a list of 4 people born in Saint-Hugues before 1914.
The 25 km around Saint-Hugues keep buildings from as early as 1802
Out to 25 km from Saint-Hugues, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
The bars count 17 dated places within 25 km. 6 are older than 1867. First by date comes Cloche Marguerite-Michel in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, from 1802.
19 historic places within 25 km of Saint-Hugues
By age, Cloche Marguerite-Michel leads, from 1802, at 24 km. The nearest is Saint-Guillaume Municipal Building, 13 km away in Saint-Guillaume. They are 10 municipal citations, 5 places classified by Québec and 2 National Historic Sites.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Saint-Guillaume Municipal BuildingMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1922 · 13 km away, in Saint-Guillaume |
| Ancien presbytère de Saint-Edmond-de-GranthamMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1917–1918 · 18 km away, in Saint-Guillaume |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1905–1907 · 19 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Sainte-Hyacinthe, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1899–1900 · 19 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Hôtel de ville de Saint-HyacintheMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1895 · 19 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Marché public de Saint-HyacintheMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1876–1877 · 19 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Saint-Hyacinthe Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1889–1895 · 19 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Église de la Présentation-de-la-Sainte-ViergeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1817–1820 · 20 km away, in La Présentation |
| Site patrimonial de La Présentation-de-la-Sainte-ViergeClassified heritage site (Québec) · 20 km away, in La Présentation |
| Pavillon de l'aqueducMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1897–1898 · 20 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Porte des Anciens MairesMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1927 · 21 km away, in Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Troisième école de Côte-PlaisanceMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1954 · 23 km away, in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu |
Saint-Hugues added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.9%, where most towns have 4.1%
Only 17% of Saint-Hugues’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Saint-Hugues built little from 2001 to 2015: 11% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. More than half of Saint-Hugues’s housing predates 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Lives that started in Saint-Hugues, 1848–1897
Best known is Alfred Dubuc, with articles in 5 Wikipedia languages. Before 1914, 4 births here made the record. Alfred Dubuc lived longest, to 76, dying in 1947.
Everyone born in Saint-Hugues → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Saint-Hugues and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Hugues | 1,414 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Simon | 1,474 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud | 1,053 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot | 1,887 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Jude | 1,402 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Guillaume | 1,489 | 1 | 0 | 1922 |
| Saint-Eugène | 1,180 | 0 | 0 | — |
Saint-Hugues in brief
The pre-1961 share of Saint-Hugues’s homes is 44%, against 18% in the typical town. Alfred Dubuc (1871), Trefflé Berthiaume (1848) and Cyrille Dumaine (1897) lead its people of the past.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal 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. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
- Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
- 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 Saint-Hugues’s history
How many historic places does Saint-Hugues have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Saint-Hugues; Saint-Guillaume Municipal Building, in Saint-Guillaume, is 13 km away.
When did Saint-Hugues become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Saint-Hugues is 1827, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Saint-Hugues?
44% predate 1961, where 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).