Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Within 25 km of Shefford, 11 places are on the heritage registers
The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 9.1%. Heritage of the first rank begins 8.3 km away, in Waterloo. John Edward Martin heads a list of 2 people born in Shefford before 1914. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is July 1, 1855: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
The highest designation, 2 times, within 25 km of Shefford
They are 9 municipal citations and 2 places classified by Québec. Count to 25 km and there are 11. The nearest is Église universaliste de Waterloo, 8.5 km away in Waterloo.
The 11 nearest, within 25 km
| Église universaliste de WaterlooMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1870 · 8.5 km away, in Waterloo |
| Église Saint-Luke de WaterlooClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1867–1870 · 8.5 km away, in Waterloo |
| Manoir MaplewoodMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1864–1865 · 8.9 km away, in Waterloo |
| Église Sainte-Famille de GranbyMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1930–1931 · 8.9 km away, in Granby |
| Église Saint-Matthew de Stukely-SudMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1854–1856 · 17 km away, in Stukely-Sud |
| Noyau institutionnel de KnowltonCited heritage site (Québec) · 18 km away, in Lac-Brome |
| Résidence George-Knight-NesbittMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1881 · 20 km away, in Cowansville |
| Ensemble religieux de Saint-Paul-d'AbbotsfordClassified heritage site (Québec) · 23 km away, in Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford |
| Église Saint-Andrew de The PassMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1891 · 23 km away, in Lac-Brome |
| Presbytère de Saint-Valérien-de-MiltonMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1877–1879 · 23 km away, in Saint-Valérien-de-Milton |
| Moulin à eau de la Grande BarbueMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1829 · 25 km away, in Saint-Césaire |
Within 25 km of Shefford, the dated places belong mostly to the decades after Confederation
Places as far as 25 km from Shefford, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
Within 25 km, 9 records give a date. 3 predate Confederation. Moulin à eau de la Grande Barbue, in Saint-Césaire, is the oldest (1829).
Shefford is still building: 6.4% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
More than half of Shefford’s housing predates 2001. 31% of Shefford’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Shefford’s largest group of homes, 34%, went up from 1981 to 2000.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Shefford compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,600 to 7,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Baie-Saint-Paul, Augusta and Fruitland have more. Their median is 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Shefford and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shefford | 7,704 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bromont | 12,413 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Waterloo | 5,714 | 3 | 1 | 1864 |
| Granby | 72,180 | 1 | 0 | 1930 |
| Roxton Pond | 4,884 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford | 1,552 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby | 3,545 | 0 | 0 | — |
Shefford in brief
The census dates only 9.1% of its homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: John Edward Martin (1859) and Susan Norris Fitkin (1870) are its people of the past on the record.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
- 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.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- 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.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.
Questions about Shefford’s history
How many historic places does Shefford have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Shefford; Église universaliste de Waterloo, in Waterloo, is 8.5 km away.
When did Shefford become a municipality?
Wikidata dates the municipality of Shefford to July 1, 1855. That can be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
How old are the homes in Shefford?
9.1% 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).