Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Ancien hôtel de ville d'Isle-Maligne · Photo: Johny-le-cowboy · CC BY-SA 3.0The oldest building on Alma’s record is Presbytère de Saint-Joseph, from 1901. Relative to its size Alma has 1 per 10,000 residents, more than 79% of Canadian towns. On the list: 3 municipal citations.
To start: Ancien hôtel de ville d'Isle-Maligne, and Presbytère de Saint-Joseph. Each of Alma’s designated places has a photo. Open a place’s page for its old views: 2 places in Alma have them.
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.
By date: 4 old photographs of the town, with the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
1897
c. 1898
c. 1900
c. 1900
c. 1900
c. 1930Public 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.
Saint-Joseph-d'Alma was the name of Alma until 1954. January 1, 1879 is the date of Alma’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes. The name of Alma honours Battle of Alma, 1854 first battle of the Crimean War.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Presbytère de Saint-Joseph is the earliest, from 1901; the latest dates from 1936. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They were designated between 2000 and 2006. Each one opens its own page.
Half of the homes standing in Alma today were built before 1981. The busiest building years in Alma were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 35% of today’s homes. From 2016 to 2021 Alma added 3.6% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 30,200 to 31,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Des Explorateurs has more. The typical town its size has 1. 8 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma | 30,659 | 3 | 0 | 1901 |
| Saint-Nazaire | 2,167 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Bruno | 2,935 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Gédéon | 2,349 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hébertville-Station | 1,298 | 1 | 0 | 1931 |
| L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur | 2,291 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Larouche | 1,734 | 0 | 0 | — |
The 2021 Census dates 25% of Alma’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. The other figures are unremarkable: Joseph-Ludger Fillion (1895) and Jean-Baptiste Lebel (1888) are its people of the past on the record; and the list grew between 2000 and 2006.
3 historic places inside Alma, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
Presbytère de Saint-Joseph — its record dates it to 1901 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
Before 1961: 25% of its homes; 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).
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