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History of Ange-Gardien · Canada’s heritage registers

Behind the name Ange-Gardien: guardian angel

Moulin à eau de la Grande Barbue, 5.1 km from Ange-Gardien, heads a list of 5 historic places within 10 km. The nearest town with a top designation is Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford, 8.2 km away. Records name 2 people born in Ange-Gardien before 1914; the first is Hector Authier.

Historic places within 10 km

0 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

5.1 km

Moulin à eau de la Grande Barbue

Homes built before 1961

21%

typical town: 18%

Born here before 1914

the earliest in 1881

How it began

Ange-Gardien on record since 1997

A single date stands for Ange-Gardien as a municipality on Wikidata, December 31, 1997, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. Behind the name Ange-Gardien is guardian angel, angel said assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or country.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

Around the town

The registers find 5 places within 10 km of Ange-Gardien

At 5.1 km, Moulin à eau de la Grande Barbue in Saint-Césaire is the closest. They belong to 2 towns, chiefly Farnham and Saint-Césaire. The mix: 4 municipal citations and a heritage railway station.

The 5 nearest, within 10 km

Moulin à eau de la Grande BarbueMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1829 · 5.1 km away, in Saint-Césaire

Ensemble institutionnel de Saint-RomualdMunicipal citation (Québec) · 8.6 km away, in Farnham

Couvent des Sœurs de la Présentation de MarieMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1857 · 8.6 km away, in Saint-Césaire

Salle anglicane du complexe St. JamesMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1887–1888 · 9 km away, in Farnham

Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Farnham, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1950–1951 · 9.2 km away, in Farnham

Homes by age

7.8% of Ange-Gardien’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)

Half of the homes standing in Ange-Gardien today were built before 2001. Ange-Gardien has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 29%, where most towns have 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Ange-Gardien has 21% of its homes from before 1961.

21%

Before 1961

24%

1961–80

19%

1981–2000

29%

2001–15

7.8%

2016–21

Ange-GardienTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Ange-Gardien and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Highest	Oldest
Ange-Gardien	3,100	0	0	—
Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford	2,891	1	1	—
Saint-Césaire	6,150	2	0	1829
Farnham	11,315	3	0	1887
Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby	3,545	0	0	—
Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville	1,540	0	0	—
Rougemont	2,832	0	0	—

In brief

Ange-Gardien in brief

Ange-Gardien’s homes from before 1961 come to 21%, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no historic place; and its past has lives on the record such as Hector Authier (1881) and Laurent Barré (1886).

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.
The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
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.

Questions about Ange-Gardien’s history

How many historic places does Ange-Gardien have on the registers?

Ange-Gardien has none of its own yet. Moulin à eau de la Grande Barbue, in Saint-Césaire, is the nearest, 5.1 km away.

How old are the homes in Ange-Gardien?

The 2021 Census dates 21% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).

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).