Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Louis-Léon-Lesieur-Desaulniers · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Only a few towns match Yamachiche per resident: 11 for every 10,000, ahead of 98% of Canadian towns. Before 1961: 36% of the homes, where most towns have 18%. The oldest dated place, L'Enfilade-de-Maisons-en-Brique-Rouge-de-Yamachiche, goes back to 1850. Add one just outside the town.
To start: Maison Louis-Léon-Lesieur-Desaulniers, and Nérée-Beauchemin House. All of Yamachiche’s designated places are pictured.
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.
1702 is the date of Yamachiche’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes. In 1987 the municipality took over from Sainte-Anne-de-Yamachiche.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
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.
They were designated between 1978 and 2008. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Their dates run from 1850, with L'Enfilade-de-Maisons-en-Brique-Rouge-de-Yamachiche, to 1867. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Église Saint-Léon-le-GrandClassified heritage building (Québec) · 2 km outside the town |
Half of the homes standing in Yamachiche today were built before 1981. 31% of Yamachiche’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%. In Yamachiche, 19% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The widest known is Aram J. Pothier: 8 Wikipedia editions. Counting only births before 1914, there are 19. Most of them, 15 of 19, came into the world in the years before Confederation. Longest lived was Pierre Gélinas, 93 years in all (1911).
Everyone born in Yamachiche → 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 2,800 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Lacolle and Ferme-Neuve have more. Their median is 1. 8 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yamachiche | 2,801 | 3 | 3 | 1850 |
| Louiseville | 7,570 | 2 | 1 | 1898 |
| Saint-Barnabé | 1,234 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Maskinongé | 2,457 | 3 | 3 | 1765 |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | 4,675 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Ursule | 1,363 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Charette | 1,178 | 0 | 0 | — |
Housing in Yamachiche includes 36% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 3 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, including Maison Louis-Léon-Lesieur-Desaulniers. Within 400 m of L'Enfilade-de-Maisons-en-Brique-Rouge-de-Yamachiche stand 3 of the town’s places of the highest designation.
Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. Among the lives from its past: Aram J. Pothier (1854), Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (1824) and Sévère Rivard (1834). Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1978 and 2008.
The 2021 Census dates 36% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
They are Maison Louis-Léon-Lesieur-Desaulniers, Nérée-Beauchemin House and L'Enfilade-de-Maisons-en-Brique-Rouge-de-Yamachiche.
L'Enfilade-de-Maisons-en-Brique-Rouge-de-Yamachiche — its record dates it to 1850 (Classified heritage site (Québec)).
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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