Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Church of St Edward · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Inside Bécancour there are 3 historic places, all of them top designations. That is 2 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 86% of Canadian towns.
Church of St Edward and Moulin Michel lead the set. Photos show every place Bécancour’s registers name.
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.
The oldest view of one of its historic places, made before 1950. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1910Public 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.
11 former municipalities gave way to the present municipality in 1965. Wikidata gives the municipality of Bécancour the date October 17, 1965, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. Behind the name Bécancour is Pierre Robineau de Bécancour.
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.
In Québec the record is fuller than elsewhere: beside Parks Canada’s designations, the province’s register lists its classements and every municipal citation.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
They date from 1774 (Moulin Michel) to 1842. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Their designations span 1957 to 1985. Each one opens its own page.
Before 1961: 25% of Bécancour’s homes, against 18% in most towns. Bécancour has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 23%, where most towns have 15%. Half of the homes standing in Bécancour today were built before 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The years before Confederation gave 20 of the 24. By Wikipedia’s reach, Louis-Zéphirin Moreau leads, with 9 articles. In 1779 came the earliest, Jean-Baptiste Hébert. At the other end is Lucien Dubois, from 1893. The 20 best known are on the timeline.
Everyone born in Bécancour → 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 14,900 to 15,000 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 11 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bécancour | 14,943 | 3 | 3 | 1774 |
| Trois-Rivières | 149,934 | 29 | 21 | 1634 |
| Nicolet | 8,737 | 3 | 2 | 1827 |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 3 | 1 | 1878 |
| Saint-Maurice | 3,804 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Wenceslas | 1,202 | 0 | 0 | — |
Of the homes standing in Bécancour, 25% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 3 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, led by Moulin Michel. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Of its people of the past, the best known are Louis-Zéphirin Moreau (1824), Léon Provancher (1820) and Joseph Gaudet (1818). Beyond that, the list grew between 1957 and 1985.
Moulin Michel — its record dates it to 1774 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
These: Moulin Michel, Church of St Gregory and Church of St Edward.
25% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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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