Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Westmount District · Photo: Jean Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Westmount’s share is 3.7 times the typical 18%. Hurtubise House, begun in 1739, is the oldest by its record. All told the heritage lists hold 9 historic places within the town, and 7 sit in the top tier. Only a few towns match it per resident: 4.4 for every 10,000, ahead of 94% of Canadian towns.
Every place on Westmount’s registers has a photo here. On their own pages, 2 of Westmount’s places show how they once looked. Up first are Westmount District and Maison Braemar.
Maison Braemar
First Congregation of Notre-Dame Motherhouse
Hurtubise House
Site patrimonial de la Maison-Hurtubise
Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal+4See 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.
4 old photographs of the town, then the oldest views of 2 of its historic places, set out by date. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
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c. 1927Public 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.
In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Westmount dates from January 1, 1874; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. By 1907 the place had a station: Westmount station.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
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.
The group holds 4 places classified by Québec and 3 National Historic Sites. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They date from 1739 (Hurtubise House) to 1918. Each one opens its own page.
They date from 1896 (“Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Westmount, Quebec”) to 1925. The group holds a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The first by rank are Westmount District and Church of Saint-Léon-de-Westmount. Its places fall into 6 kinds.
The groups come from each place’s name and its recorded functions, by what it was built as.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
2 of the 8 dated places were built before Confederation.
Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 9.3% of Westmount’s, against 23% in the typical town. Only 2.3% of Westmount’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Half of the homes standing in Westmount today were built before 1961.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The longest life was Kenneth Farmer’s: 93 years, to 2005. Douglas Shearer is the most written about, in 14 languages. At the other end is Kenneth Farmer, from 1912. It starts with Douglas Shearer, born in 1899.
Everyone born in Westmount → 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 of 20,200 to 20,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 1. For 8, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westmount | 20,377 | 9 | 7 | 1739 |
| Saint-Henri | 17,309 | 1 | 0 | 1889 |
| Montagne | 28,569 | 27 | 23 | 1535 |
| Côte-Saint-Antoine | 20,415 | 2 | 2 | 1794 |
| Édouard-Montpetit | 20,601 | 7 | 6 | 1825 |
| Snowdon | 22,511 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Upper Lachine | 21,130 | 0 | 0 | — |
Of the homes standing in Westmount, 65% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 9 historic places, 7 with the highest designation, Westmount District among them. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population.
the decades after Confederation account for 4 of the 8 dated places. Of its people of the past, the best known are Douglas Shearer (1899), Kenneth Farmer (1912) and Louis Bloomfield (1906). The other figures are unremarkable: the list grew between 1977 and 2012.
65% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Hurtubise House — its record dates it to 1739 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
Westmount District, Church of Saint-Léon-de-Westmount, Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal, Hurtubise House, Maison Braemar and First Congregation of Notre-Dame Motherhouse, and 1 more.
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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