TopNational Historic Site · 1798Fort VermilionSoutheast corner of River Road and 45th StreetPhoto: KeenanPE · Public domain · Commons file
Photo: Jacob Marfo · CC BY-SA 3.01historic place on the registers
History of La Crète · Canada’s heritage registers
La Crète keeps a building from 1798: Fort Vermilion
Inside La Crète there is 1 historic place, a top designation. Measured against its size, 0.7 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 76% of Canadian towns. Homes from before 1961 are 2.7% of the stock, under the 18% of the typical town. 2 more places on provincial or local lists are counted from Wikidata without pages.
Historic places
1
0.7 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Oldest building
1798
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
2.7%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Places to see in La Crète
Fort Vermilion is the single place La Crète’s registers name, and here it is.
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.
The map
Where La Crète’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
Most entries are federal, from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations; local listings outside Québec are known only through Wikidata items with an article.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
La Crète’s top designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Homes by age
13% of La Crète’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
37% of La Crète’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 15% of La Crète’s, against 27% in the typical town. La Crète has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 33%, where most towns have 23%.
2.7%
Before 1961
15%
1961–80
33%
1981–2000
37%
2001–15
13%
2016–21
La CrèteTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
La Crète has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 14,400 to 14,600 residents, by places on the registers.
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Ahead of it: Bourg-Royal and Mont-Laurier. The middle one has 0. For 10, the registers list nothing.
In brief
La Crète in brief
Inside La Crète there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, led by Fort Vermilion. Just 2 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Few of its homes are old, 2.7% before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: its designation dates from 1968.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- Provincial and municipal lists. The local and provincial lists outside Québec aren’t published openly, so this page counts what Wikidata records and pages only the places an encyclopedia describes.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Map points. Pins for federal places come from Wikidata rather than Parks Canada, which gives no points.
Questions about La Crète’s history
What is the oldest building in La Crète?
By its record, Fort Vermilion, from 1798 (National Historic Site).
Which places in La Crète have the highest designation?
Just one: Fort Vermilion.
How old are the homes in La Crète?
2.7% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Why might a heritage building in La Crète be missing here?
Its province’s and council’s own lists can’t be reused here; 2 further listings in La Crète show up only as Wikidata numbers.
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).