Pont Jean-De La Lande · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0
5historic places on the registers
History of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield · Canada’s heritage registers
5 historic places in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, 3 of them top designations
The record has 2 municipal citations. Of the dated places, Site patrimonial de l'Entrée-Supérieure-de-l'Ancien-Canal-de-Beauharnois is the oldest, from 1842. Scaled to its population, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s 1.1 per 10,000 residents beats 80% of Canadian towns.
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Through time
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield from 1900 to 1925
Here in time order: 3 old photographs of the town. Point at a dot for its year, or tap a picture to enlarge it.
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Public 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.
How it began
The making of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, from 1823
The founding of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield came in 1823. That makes it 203 years old. The date Wikidata keeps for Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is 1854; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open.
The name Salaberry-de-Valleyfield dates from 1874.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 5, by tier
3 Highest designations2 Provincial and local listings
In Québec the record is fuller than elsewhere: beside Parks Canada’s designations, the province’s register lists its classements and every municipal citation.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
3 places in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield with the highest designation
They were designated between 2000 and 2012. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Site patrimonial de l'Entrée-Supérieure-de-l'Ancien-Canal-de-Beauharnois is the earliest, from 1842; the latest dates from 1894. Each one opens its own page.
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s record leans to stations, lighthouses and bridges: 40%
Two of the highest-ranked are Pont Jean-De La Lande and Site patrimonial de l'Entrée-Supérieure-de-l'Ancien-Canal-de-Beauharnois.
Stations, lighthouses and bridges2
Public buildings1
Other places2
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Provincial and local listings
2 more places Salaberry-de-Valleyfield or its province protects
Their designations span 1997 to 2010. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Among them: Bâtiment Joseph-Olivier-Archambault and Arrondissement institutionnel de la paroisse de Sainte-Cécile. Each one opens its own page.
A growing town: 7.8% of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s homes went up from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 11% of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s, against 15% in the typical town. 28% of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The busiest building years in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 33% of today’s homes.
28%
Before 1961
33%
1961–80
20%
1981–2000
11%
2001–15
7.8%
2016–21
Salaberry-de-ValleyfieldTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
With Paul-Émile Léger, 16 more from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s years before 1914
The decades after Confederation gave 14 of the 17. There are 17 people born here before 1914 with an article to show for it. In 1832 came the earliest, Célestin Bergevin. Paul-Émile Léger closes the list, born in 1904.
Célestin Bergevin
Désiré Girouard
Joseph Adélard Descarries
Arthur Plante
Achille Bergevin
Georges Latour
Didier Pitre
Jean Bougie
Edgar Leduc
Percy Klaehn
Alcide Montpetit
Wilfrid Morin
Berthe E. Monette
Albert Leduc
Armand Frappier
Candide Rochefort
Paul-Émile Léger
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Paul-Émile Léger1904–1991 · Canadian Catholic cardinal
Désiré Girouard1836–1911 · Canadian judge and politician
Didier Pitre1883–1934 · Canadian ice hockey player
Armand Frappier1904–1991 · Canadian physician and microbiologist
Albert Leduc1902–1990 · Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Joseph Adélard Descarries1853–1927 · Canadian politician
Achille Bergevin1870–1933 · Canadian politician
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Jean Bougie1886–1918 · Canadian ice hockey player
Everyone born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield → 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 its size
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 44,600 to 49,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Older stock first: 28% of homes in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 5 historic places, 3 with the highest designation. Just 3 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Paul-Émile Léger (1904), Désiré Girouard (1836) and Didier Pitre (1883) lead its people of the past. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the designations ran from 1997 to 2012.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
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People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
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Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
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The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
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The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
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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.
Questions about Salaberry-de-Valleyfield’s history
Which places in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield have the highest designation?
These: Pont Jean-De La Lande, Site patrimonial de l'Entrée-Supérieure-de-l'Ancien-Canal-de-Beauharnois and Rivière-Saint-Pierre Aqueduct.
What is the oldest building in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield?
Site patrimonial de l'Entrée-Supérieure-de-l'Ancien-Canal-de-Beauharnois — its record dates it to 1842 (Classified heritage site (Québec)).
How old are the homes in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield?
Before 1961: 28% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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.
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