TopNational Historic Site · 1692Madeleine de Verchères15 Madeleine StreetPhoto: Bordeled · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Madeleine de Verchères · Photo: Bordeled · CC BY-SA 3.04historic places on the registers
History of Verchères · Canada’s heritage registers
Back to 1692 in Verchères, with Madeleine de Verchères
The lists give Verchères 4 historic places, 3 in the top tier. Scaled to its population the record is long: 6.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 96% of Canadian towns. Among the places are a municipal citation. Wikidata dates the municipality to 1672, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
Historic places
4
6.9 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
3
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
1
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1692
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
23%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
See all 3 of Verchères’s places with the highest designations
You can start with Madeleine de Verchères and Dansereau Windmill. Every place on Verchères’s registers has a photo here. For 2 of Verchères’s places, old views sit on the place’s own page.
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.
Through time
Pictures of Verchères from 1865 to 1915
On one line by date: the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.
c. 1865
1915Public 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 map
Where Verchères’s history is
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 4, by tier
3 Highest designations1 Provincial and local listings
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.
Highest designations
3 places in Verchères with the highest designation
By designation: 2 places classified by Québec and a National Historic Site. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The oldest, Madeleine de Verchères, dates from 1692; the newest from 1822. Each one opens its own page.
TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1730Moulin à vent de Verchèresrue MadeleinePhoto: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1822Dansereau Windmill1025 route Marie-VictorinPhoto: René Beaudoin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Verchères: one place
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
LocalHomes by age
Verchères added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 0.4%, where most towns have 4.1%
23% of Verchères’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Homes from before 1961 make up 23% of Verchères’s housing; the typical town has 18%. More of Verchères’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 32%.
23%
Before 1961
32%
1961–80
22%
1981–2000
23%
2001–15
0.4%
2016–21
VerchèresTypical 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
3 of Canada’s national historic persons, tied to Verchères
The longest life was Félix Messier’s: 92 years, to 1968. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 24 births here before 1914. In 1678 came the earliest, Madeleine de Verchères. Of the 24, 16 were born in the years before Confederation. The 20 best known are on the timeline.
Madeleine de Verchères
Louis Coulon de Villiers
François Coulon de Villiers
Paschal Chagnon
Joseph Bondy, dit Douaire
Pierre Amiot
François-Xavier Malhiot
Maximilien Globensky
Ludger Duvernay
Charles-Christophe Malhiot
Jean-Baptiste Rolland
Pierre-Étienne Fortin
Pierre Bachand
Hubert-Charron Cabana
Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel
Calixa Lavallée
Hercule Dupré
Georges Dansereau
Pio H. Laporte
Paul Carmel Laporte
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Calixa Lavallée1842–1891 · Designated nationally in 1966 · Canadian composer
Ludger Duvernay1799–1852 · National historic person, 2019 · Canadian politician
Pierre-Étienne Fortin1823–1888 · Designated nationally in 1953 · Canadian politician
Madeleine de Verchères1678–1747 · Canadian battle hero
Jean-Baptiste Rolland1815–1888 · Canadian politician
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Louis Coulon de Villiers1710–1757 · French military commander
Pio H. Laporte1878–1939 · Canadian politician
Paul Carmel Laporte1885–1973 · Canadian physician and artist
Everyone born in Verchères → 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 its size
Verchères has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 5,800 to 5,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Verchères4
Only Broadway-Assiniboine has more. Their median is 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Verchères and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verchères | 5,819 | 4 | 3 | 1692 |
| Saint-Sulpice | 3,688 | 2 | 2 | 1830 |
| Repentigny | 91,290 | 3 | 3 | 1723 |
| L'Assomption | 25,126 | 5 | 2 | 1811 |
| Charlemagne | 6,695 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Varennes | 21,490 | 5 | 5 | 1750 |
| Lavaltrie | 15,996 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Verchères in brief
The 2021 Census dates 23% of Verchères’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 4 historic places, 3 with the highest designation. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Calixa Lavallée (1842), Ludger Duvernay (1799) and Pierre-Étienne Fortin (1823) lead its people of the past. For the rest, the designations ran from 1923 to 2011.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
- Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
Questions about Verchères’s history
What is the oldest building in Verchères?
By its record, Madeleine de Verchères, from 1692 (National Historic Site).
Which places in Verchères have the highest designation?
Madeleine de Verchères, Moulin à vent de Verchères and Dansereau Windmill.
How old are the homes in Verchères?
23% predate 1961, where 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).