Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Site du patrimoine de l'Église-de-Saint-Bonaventure · Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Bonaventure’s 3.7 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 92% of Canadian towns. Before 1961: 31% of the homes, where most towns have 18%.
A single old picture: one old photograph of the town. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
1940Public 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.
Before 1955, Bonaventure went by Saint-Bonaventure de Hamilton. Wikidata gives the municipality of Bonaventure the date July 1, 1855, which can mark a founding, an incorporation 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.
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.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Out to 25 km from Bonaventure, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
The oldest is Banc de Pêche de Paspébiac in Paspébiac, from 1783. The bars count 8 dated places within 25 km. Before Confederation: 3.
The first one out is Maison René-Lévesque, 12 km away in New Carlisle. They are 6 municipal citations, a place classified by Québec and a heritage railway station. By age, Banc de Pêche de Paspébiac leads, from 1783, at 17 km.
| Maison René-LévesqueClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1905 · 12 km away, in New Carlisle |
| Centre culturel et d’interprétation KempfferMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1868 · 12 km away, in New Carlisle |
| Maison HamiltonMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1852 · 12 km away, in New Carlisle |
| Maison ThompsonMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1838 · 12 km away, in New Carlisle |
| VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, New Carlisle, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1947–1948 · 12 km away, in New Carlisle |
| Banc de Pêche de PaspébiacNational Historic Site · 1783–1901 · 17 km away, in Paspébiac |
| Couvent Notre-DameMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1940 · 17 km away, in Paspébiac |
| Presbytère de PaspébiacMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1929 · 17 km away, in Paspébiac |
| La NeigièreMunicipal citation (Québec) · 21 km away, in Caplan |
Half of the homes standing in Bonaventure today were built before 1981. Only 9.1% of Bonaventure’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. New building in Bonaventure runs at the usual pace: 4.6% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The decades after Confederation gave 4 of the 5. Hippolyte Dubord comes first, born in 1801. Bona Arsenault is the most written about, in 4 languages. At 90, Bona Arsenault outlived the rest, dying in 1993.
Everyone born in Bonaventure → 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 2,700 to 2,700 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 15 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonaventure | 2,719 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Siméon | 1,254 | 0 | 0 | — |
| New Carlisle | 1,331 | 5 | 1 | 1838 |
| Paspébiac | 3,132 | 3 | 1 | 1783 |
| Caplan | 1,961 | 1 | 0 | — |
Counted by age, 31% of Bonaventure’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none has more historic places. Bona Arsenault (1903), Nérée Arsenault (1911) and Alphée Poirier (1899) are the best known of its historic lives. For the rest, its designation dates from 2003.
1 historic place in Bonaventure, from Canada’s heritage registers.
The 2021 Census dates 31% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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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