Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Molleur-Dit-Lallemand · Photo: Malimage · CC BY-SA 3.0The registers put 7 historic places inside Beaumont’s boundary, 5 of them of the highest rank. Per resident it outdoes 99% of Canadian towns, with 22 for every 10,000 people. The record has 2 municipal citations.
6 of the places on Beaumont’s heritage registers are pictured here; the others keep their register record. Among Beaumont’s top-tier places, 4 are pictured. Up first are Maison Molleur-Dit-Lallemand and Church of St Stephen.
Church of St Stephen
Chapelle de procession Sainte-Anne
Chapelle de procession de la Sainte-Vierge
Site du patrimoine du Village-de-Beaumont
Site patrimonial du Moulin-de-Beaumont+1See all photosPhotos 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.
A single old picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1900Public 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.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
Of the 5 with a date, 4 predate 1867.
The name Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont lasted until 1998, when Beaumont took another. The municipality of Beaumont has the date July 1, 1855 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
They were designated between 1979 and 2023. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Maison Molleur-Dit-Lallemand is the earliest, from 1720; the latest dates from 1914. Each one opens its own page.
All told, 4 kinds of place appear. The second-largest group is houses, with 2. Leading by designation: Maison Molleur-Dit-Lallemand and Church of St Stephen.
Grouped by what each register says the place is or was; a converted building counts as what it was built for.
Among them: Site du patrimoine du Village-de-Beaumont and Site patrimonial du Moulin-de-Beaumont. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Designations came from 1997 to 2008. Each one opens its own page.
Before 1961: 17% of Beaumont’s homes, near the usual 18%. The busiest building years in Beaumont were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 27% of today’s homes. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 24% of Beaumont’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Best known is Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon, with articles in 9 Wikipedia languages. The years before Confederation gave 4 of the 7. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 7 births here before 1914. At 91, Joseph-Aurélien Roy outlived the rest, dying in 2001.
Everyone born in Beaumont → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 3,200 to 3,200 residents, by places on the registers.
The typical town its size has 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 3,188 | 7 | 5 | 1720 |
| Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | 1,659 | 3 | 3 | 1728 |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | 2,739 | 9 | 0 | 1827 |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse | 1,902 | 3 | 2 | 1740 |
| Sainte-Pétronille | 1,015 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | 1,704 | 3 | 3 | 1717 |
| L'Ange-Gardien | 4,106 | 5 | 4 | 1674 |
Inside Beaumont there are 7 historic places, 5 with the highest designation, led by Maison Molleur-Dit-Lallemand. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none has more historic places. Of the 5 with a date, 3 come from the years of New France.
Its people of the past include Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon (1840), Adélard Turgeon (1863) and Joseph-Aurélien Roy (1910). Before 1961: just 17% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the designations ran from 1979 to 2023.
Maison Molleur-Dit-Lallemand — its record dates it to 1720 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
These: Maison Molleur-Dit-Lallemand, Church of St Stephen, Chapelle de procession de la Sainte-Vierge, Chapelle de procession Sainte-Anne and Vestiges du fort de Beaumont.
Before 1961: 17% 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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