National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Oldest building
1720
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
23%
typical town: 18%
How it began
Berthier-sur-Mer’s early dates, from 1855
The name Berthier lasted until 1971, when Berthier-sur-Mer took another. A single date stands for Berthier-sur-Mer as a municipality on Wikidata, July 1, 1855, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
The federal directory and the Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec are both open, so every federal, provincial and municipal designation here has its point.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Berthier-sur-Mer with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Berthier-sur-Mer’s surroundings: 9 historic places within 10 km
Among them are 5 places classified by Québec and 4 municipal citations. By age, Ancien presbytère de Saint-François-de-Sales leads, from 1763, at 5.2 km. Saint-Vallier, Montmagny and Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud hold most of them, among 3 towns.
Maison Joseph-CôtéClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1850 · 9.4 km away, in Saint-Vallier
Homes by age
Berthier-sur-Mer keeps more old homes than most towns: 23% from before 1961, against 18%
Count back from today and half of Berthier-sur-Mer’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 23% of Berthier-sur-Mer’s, against 15% in the typical town. Only 21% of Berthier-sur-Mer’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%.
23%
Before 1961
21%
1961–80
20%
1981–2000
23%
2001–15
13%
2016–21
Berthier-sur-MerTypical 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
Before 1914, Berthier-sur-Mer gave 6 lives to the record
The last born is Aristide Blais, in 1875. In 1830 came the earliest, Joseph Hébert. Camille Roy is the most written about, in 7 languages. Most of them, 4 of 6, came into the world in the years before Confederation.
Joseph Hébert
Onésiphore Carbonneau
Paul-Eugène Roy
Jean-Baptiste Carbonneau
Camille Roy
Aristide Blais
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CR
Camille Roy1870–1943 · Canadian academic
PR
Paul-Eugène Roy1859–1926 · Canadian Catholic archbishop
OC
Onésiphore Carbonneau1852–1932 · Canadian politician
AB
Aristide Blais1875–1964 · Canadian politician
JH
Joseph Hébert1830–1919 · Canadian mail carrier and folk hero
JC
Jean-Baptiste Carbonneau1864–1936 · Canadian politician
Everyone born in Berthier-sur-Mer → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Berthier-sur-Mer has 23% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, led by Site patrimonial du Manoir-Dénéchaud. Among the lives from its past: Camille Roy (1870), Paul-Eugène Roy (1859) and Onésiphore Carbonneau (1852). The rest is about typical: its one place was designated in 1980.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
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Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
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The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
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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.
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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.
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The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
Questions about Berthier-sur-Mer’s history
What is the oldest building in Berthier-sur-Mer?
Site patrimonial du Manoir-Dénéchaud (Classified heritage site (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1720.
Which places in Berthier-sur-Mer have the highest designation?
Just one: Site patrimonial du Manoir-Dénéchaud.
How old are the homes in Berthier-sur-Mer?
Before 1961: 23% 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.