Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Ancien monastère des Moniales-Dominicaines-de-Berthierville · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Before 1961: 34% of Berthierville’s homes, where most towns have 18%. Inside the town there are 5 historic places, all of them top designations. For its size this is rich ground: 11 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 98% of Canadian towns.
Of the places on Berthierville’s registers, 4 have a photo here. 4 of the top-tier places in Berthierville have a photo. Ancien monastère des Moniales-Dominicaines-de-Berthierville and Site patrimonial de Sainte-Geneviève lead the set.
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.
A single old picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1795Public 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 name Berthier lasted until 1942, when Berthierville took another. In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Berthierville dates from April 14, 1852; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s 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.
The first was designated in 1958, the latest in 2019. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They date from 1782 (Church of St Genevieve) to 1933. Each one opens its own page.
Leading by designation: Church of St Genevieve and Cuthbert Chapel.
Each place sits in one group, from its name first, then the uses its register lists.
Over half of the homes in Berthierville were already standing by 1981. In Berthierville, 27% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%). Building from 1981 to 2000 gave Berthierville 21% of its homes, near the usual 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 23 births here before 1914. In 1758 came the earliest, Louis Olivier. Of them all, Louis Tellier lived longest: 93 years, until 1935. 17 of the 23 were born in the years before Confederation. The timeline shows the 20 best known.
Everyone born in Berthierville → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 4,600 to 4,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Jasper and Neuville have more. The middle one has 0. 10 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berthierville | 4,591 | 5 | 5 | 1782 |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 2,298 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola | 2,170 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel | 1,602 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sorel-Tracy | 36,537 | 8 | 7 | 1641 |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | 2,770 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 1 | 1 | 1874 |
Before 1961: 34% of Berthierville’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 5 historic places, 5 with the highest designation, led by Church of St Genevieve. Just 2 towns of its size, out of 16, have more historic places. Jacques Grenier (1823), Louis-Arsène Lavallée (1861) and Léo-Paul Desrosiers (1896) lead its people of the past. The other figures are unremarkable: the list grew between 1958 and 2019.
Church of St Genevieve, a Classified heritage building (Québec), begun in 1782.
34% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
These: Church of St Genevieve, Cuthbert Chapel, Ancien monastère des Moniales-Dominicaines-de-Berthierville, Site patrimonial de Sainte-Geneviève and Site patrimonial de l’Ancien-Monastère-des-Moniales-Dominicaines-de-Berthierville.
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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