TopClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1708Old presbytery of Batiscan340 rue PrincipalePhoto: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Old presbytery of Batiscan · Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.03historic places on the registers
History of Batiscan · Canada’s heritage registers
Batiscan keeps a building from 1708: Old presbytery of Batiscan
The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Batiscan has 42%. On the registers the town counts 3 historic places, one at the top. Counted by designation, there are 2 municipal citations. Wikidata dates the municipality to 1666, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
Historic places
3
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
2
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1708
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
42%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Batiscan’s landmarks in 3 photos, with 1 old views
The photos cover every place on Batiscan’s registers. Two to begin with: Old presbytery of Batiscan and Office of the signals.
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.
Through time
The old face of Batiscan
The past in one picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1920Public 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.
The map
Where Batiscan’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 3, by tier
1 Highest designations2 Provincial and local listings
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Batiscan with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and local listings
2 local listings in Batiscan
The oldest, Lacoursière Calvary, dates from 1905; the newest from 1915. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their designations span 2000 to 2011. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1905Lacoursière Calvaryrang NordPhoto: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1915–1916Office of the signals1000 rue PrincipalePhoto: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Homes by age
Little new building in Batiscan: 2.1% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Only 18% of Batiscan’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 21% of Batiscan’s, against 15% in the typical town. Few of Batiscan’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 18%, the norm 23%.
42%
Before 1961
18%
1961–80
18%
1981–2000
21%
2001–15
2.1%
2016–21
BatiscanTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
From 1781 to 1902: lives that began in Batiscan
Most of them, 5 of 9, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 9 births here before 1914. The widest known is Hervé-Edgar Brunelle: 4 Wikipedia editions. Longest lived was Valère Guillet, 85 years in all (1881).
Olivier Trudel
Valère Guillet
Thomas Marchildon
Édouard-Louis Pacaud
Joseph-Arthur Labissonnière
Clovis Duval
François-Xavier Lacoursière
Hervé-Edgar Brunelle
Paul Lahaye
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HB
Hervé-Edgar Brunelle1891–1950 · Canadian politician
OT
Olivier Trudel1781–1859 · Canadian politician
ÉP
Édouard-Louis Pacaud1815–1889 · Canadian lawyer and politician
PL
Paul Lahaye1902–1983 · Canadian politician
TM
Thomas Marchildon1805–1858 · Canadian politician
JL
Joseph-Arthur Labissonnière1875–1930 · Canadian politician
FL
François-Xavier Lacoursière1885–1970
VG
Valère Guillet1796–1881 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Batiscan → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Neighbours
Batiscan and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batiscan | 1,006 | 3 | 1 | 1708 |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | 1,172 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade | 2,036 | 6 | 2 | 1759 |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 1 | 0 | 1827 |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 3 | 1 | 1878 |
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 3 | 2 | 1871 |
In brief
Batiscan in brief
Older stock first: 42% of homes in Batiscan were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, Old presbytery of Batiscan among them. Among the lives from its past: Hervé-Edgar Brunelle (1891), Olivier Trudel (1781) and Édouard-Louis Pacaud (1815). The rest is about typical: its places were designated between 1984 and 2011.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
- 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.
- Québec’s register. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
Questions about Batiscan’s history
What is the oldest building in Batiscan?
Old presbytery of Batiscan (Classified heritage site (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1708.
How old are the homes in Batiscan?
42% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Batiscan have the highest designation?
It is Old presbytery of Batiscan.
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).