Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Genvievegarneau2 · CC BY-SA 4.0The record has 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, 2 heritage railway stations and a municipal citation. Of the dated places, Chapelle Saint-Mark de Bishop's University is the oldest, from 1853. Per resident Sherbrooke has more than 75% of Canadian towns: 0.6 for every 10,000 people.
Two to begin with: Sherbrooke City Hall and Site patrimonial de l'Ancienne-Prison-Winter. The photos cover every place on Sherbrooke’s registers. For 3 of Sherbrooke’s places, old views sit on the place’s own page.
Sherbrooke City Hall
Site patrimonial de l'Ancienne-Prison-Winter
Sherbrooke War Memorial
Granada Theatre
Chapelle Saint-Mark de Bishop's University+6See 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.
On one line by date: 6 old photographs of the town and the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
c. 1858
c. 1890
1900
1907
1913
c. 1923
c. 1926
c. 1930Public 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 railway reached Sherbrooke in 1852. For the municipality of Sherbrooke itself, Wikidata records 1793, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger.
How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from English Wikipedia’s article “Sherbrooke”, revision 1384027591 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
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.
Their designations span 1989 to 2024. They are 5 places classified by Québec and a National Historic Site. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
They are 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 2 heritage railway stations. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. “Canadian National Railway Station, Sherbrooke, Quebec” is the earliest, from 1890; the latest dates from 1950. Each one opens its own page.
The second-largest group is stations, lighthouses and bridges, with 2. At the head of the list: Granada Theatre and Chapelle Saint-Mark de Bishop's University. All told, 6 kinds of place appear.
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
3 of the 9 dated places were built before Confederation.
The places by the year of their designation.
The first was Chapelle Saint-Mark de Bishop's University, in 1989. The list has grown by 3 since 2011.
19% of Sherbrooke’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Sherbrooke’s largest group of homes, 29%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Before 1961: 18% of Sherbrooke’s homes, near the usual 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Most of them, 21 of 29, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 29 births here before 1914. Gardner Green Stevens comes first, born in 1814. The longest life here was David Hall’s, 97 years, ending in 1972. The timeline shows the 20 best known.
Everyone born in Sherbrooke → 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 153,900 to 222,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Lévis. Their median is 2. For 3, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherbrooke | 184,135 | 11 | 6 | 1853 |
| Hatley | 2,512 | 1 | 0 | 1870 |
| Waterville | 2,643 | 3 | 0 | 1825 |
| Ascot Corner | 3,725 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stoke | 3,272 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Denis-de-Brompton | 5,249 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | 2,938 | 0 | 0 | — |
In Sherbrooke, 18% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 11 historic places in all, 6 with the highest designation; Granada Theatre heads them. Its places of the highest designation cluster together: 5 of them stand within 400 m of Sherbrooke City Hall. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. Northrop Frye (1912), David Hall (1875) and William Heneker (1867) are the best known of its historic lives.
Granada Theatre, Chapelle Saint-Mark de Bishop's University, Église Plymouth Trinity, Sherbrooke City Hall, Sherbrooke War Memorial and Site patrimonial de l'Ancienne-Prison-Winter.
Chapelle Saint-Mark de Bishop's University (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1853.
Before 1961: 18% 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.
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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