Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.09 registered heritage sites stand within 50 km of Saint-Léonard
From Saint-Léonard, look 91 km away, to Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac, for the nearest place of the highest designation. Of the 5 people born in Saint-Léonard before 1914, Andrew B. Hammond came first.
Within 50 km of Saint-Léonard: 9 places on the registers
Grand Falls Former National Transcontinental Railway Station in Grand Falls / Grand-Sault is the nearest, 18 km away. Their towns number 3: Edmundston, Grand Falls / Grand-Sault and Tobique 20 first. The earliest date is “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Aroostook, New Brunswick”’s, 1906, 43 km away.
The 9 nearest, within 50 km
| Grand Falls Former National Transcontinental Railway StationHeritage Railway Station of Canada · 18 km away, in Grand Falls / Grand-Sault |
| Government of Canada BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1960 · 19 km away, in Grand Falls / Grand-Sault |
| P'tit Sault BlockhouseProvincial heritage place · 37 km away, in Edmundston |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmundston, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1929–1931 · 37 km away, in Edmundston |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Edmundston, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1959–1960 · 37 km away, in Edmundston |
| Government of Canada BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1962–1963 · 37 km away, in Edmundston |
| The Cathedral of Immaculate ConceptionProvincial heritage place · 1927 · 38 km away, in Edmundston |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Aroostook, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1906–1907 · 43 km away, in Tobique 20 |
| Mont FarlagneLocal historic place · 44 km away, in Edmundston |
Within 50 km of Saint-Léonard, the record goes back to 1906
Reaching 50 km out from Saint-Léonard: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
Oldest of all: “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Aroostook, New Brunswick”, Tobique 20, 1906. Within 50 km, building dates exist for 6 places.
Nothing new from 2016 to 2021 in Saint-Léonard, against 4.1% elsewhere
Count back from today and half of Saint-Léonard’s homes are older than 1981. 29% of Saint-Léonard’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Saint-Léonard’s largest group of homes, 35%, went up from 1961 to 1980.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Saint-Léonard’s 5 natives of the years before 1914
4 Wikipedias cover Pius Michaud, the most of anyone here. The earliest is Andrew B. Hammond, born in 1848. At the other end is William M. Bird, from 1889. Longest lived was Andrew B. Hammond, 86 years in all (1934).
Everyone born in Saint-Léonard → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Saint-Léonard and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Léonard | 1,384 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-André | 1,987 | 0 | 0 | — |
Saint-Léonard in brief
In Saint-Léonard, 29% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Pius Michaud (1870), Lorne J. Violette (1884) and Andrew B. Hammond (1848) are the best known of its historic lives.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
- 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.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- 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 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.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
Questions about Saint-Léonard’s history
How many historic places does Saint-Léonard have on the registers?
Inside Saint-Léonard, none so far; Grand Falls Former National Transcontinental Railway Station, 18 km away in Grand Falls / Grand-Sault, is the closest.
How old are the homes in Saint-Léonard?
29% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).