Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier · Photo: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0The record has a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Go back to 1870 and you reach Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the oldest of them. Relative to its size Saint-Lin--Laurentides has 0.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 77% of Canadian towns. Few homes are old by the census: 7.3% before 1961, against 18%.
The photos cover both places on Saint-Lin--Laurentides’s registers. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Wilfrid Laurier House lead the set.
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.
A single old picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1941Public 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 date Wikidata keeps for Saint-Lin--Laurentides is March 1, 2000; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open. A reorganization in 2000 folded in Laurentides and Saint-Lin.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its 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.
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.
3 places lie within 10 km. Their towns number 2: Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines and Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan first. The nearest is Maison Allard-Labrèche, 9.3 km away in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan.
| Maison Allard-LabrècheMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1865 · 9.3 km away, in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan |
| Grange-écurie des Prêtres-ChaumontClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1884–1915 · 9.9 km away, in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines |
| Maison des Prêtres-ChaumontClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1884 · 9.9 km away, in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines |
Saint-Lin--Laurentides built little from 1961 to 1980: 20% of its homes, where most towns have 27%. 39% of Saint-Lin--Laurentides’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 21% of Saint-Lin--Laurentides’s, about the typical 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Maurice Lebel closes the list, born in 1909. There are 5 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. Best known is Wilfrid Laurier, with articles in 46 Wikipedia languages. 3 of the 5 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Saint-Lin--Laurentides → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 26,100 to 27,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Beltline and La Prairie. The typical town its size has 0. 10 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Lin--Laurentides | 26,673 | 2 | 1 | 1870 |
| Saint-Esprit | 2,313 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines | 15,904 | 6 | 2 | 1882 |
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | 5,675 | 9 | 0 | 1827 |
| Saint-Calixte | 7,627 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Sophie | 19,467 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Julienne | 12,990 | 1 | 1 | 1859 |
Canada’s heritage lists give Saint-Lin--Laurentides 2 historic places, one with the highest designation, Sir Wilfrid Laurier among them. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Its people of the past include Wilfrid Laurier (1841), Joseph Gauthier (1842) and Maurice Lebel (1909). Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 7.3%, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1938 and 1998.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, a National Historic Site, begun in 1870.
The 2021 Census dates 7.3% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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).
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