Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Marsil · Photo: Pascal Normand · CC BY-SA 3.0The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Saint-Lambert has 35%. All told the heritage lists hold 6 historic places within the town, and 3 sit in the top tier. That is 2.6 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 88% of Canadian towns. The list takes in 3 municipal citations.
Each of Saint-Lambert’s designated places has a photo. In front: Maison Marsil and Maison André-Mercille.
Maison André-Mercille
Maison Antoine-Ste-Marie
Église Saint-Barnabas de Saint-Lambert
Boutique Garèle
Maison Beauvais+1See all photosPhotos 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.
One old photograph of the town, made before 1950. It opens full screen with a tap.
1863Public 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.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
Before 1867: 4 of the 6 with a date.
In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Saint-Lambert dates from July 1, 1857; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. Until 1892, Saint-Lambert was called St. Lambert.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its 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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Maison Marsil is the earliest, from 1738; the latest dates from 1775. Each one opens its own page.
At the head of the list: Maison Marsil and Maison André-Mercille.
The groups come from each place’s name and its recorded functions, by what it was built as.
The first was designated in 1988, the latest in 2000. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Maison Beauvais is the earliest, from 1690; the latest dates from 1901. Each one opens its own page.
Over half of the homes in Saint-Lambert were already standing by 1981. Saint-Lambert built little from 2001 to 2015: 5.6% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 33% of Saint-Lambert’s, about the typical 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The line ends with John Duffie (1913). In 1877 came the earliest, Harold William Hounsfield Riley. Best known is Phil Stevens, with articles in 5 Wikipedia languages. At 91, André Rousseau outlived the rest, dying in 2002.
Everyone born in Saint-Lambert → 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 22,900 to 23,700 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Lambert | 23,355 | 6 | 3 | 1690 |
| Lemoyne | 5,052 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Vieux Greenfield Park | 10,998 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde | 6,671 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Jean-Vianney | 13,181 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Laflèche | 19,706 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Notre-Dame-de-Grâces | 10,204 | 0 | 0 | — |
The pre-1961 share of Saint-Lambert’s homes is 35%, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 6 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, including Maison Marsil. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places.
3 of the 6 dated places belong to the years of New France. Of its people of the past, the best known are Phil Stevens (1893), Romain-Octave Pelletier II (1904) and Joseph Jules Jean Jacques Rousseau (1905). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1988 and 2012.
Maison Beauvais, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1690.
Before 1961: 35% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Maison Marsil, Maison André-Mercille and Maison Antoine-Ste-Marie.
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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