Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Manoir Gamache · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; Cap-Saint-Ignace has 41%. On the registers the town counts 4 historic places, 3 at the top. Scaled to its population the record is long: 13 per 10,000 residents, more than 99% of Canadian towns. Designations here include a municipal citation.
Two worth a look first: Manoir Gamache and Vincelotte Windmill. The photos cover 3 of Cap-Saint-Ignace’s designated places; the rest keep their register record. For 2 of Cap-Saint-Ignace’s places, old views sit on the place’s own page.
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.
In order of date: the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. Each dot on the line is a picture; tap one to open it full screen.
c. 1920
c. 1920Public 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.
Cap-Saint-Ignace was known as Saint-Ignace de Loyola until 1969. A single date stands for Cap-Saint-Ignace as a municipality on Wikidata, 1679, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. Cap-Saint-Ignace takes its name from Ignatius of Loyola.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its 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.
Their designations span 1959 to 1984. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Vincelotte Windmill is the earliest, from 1690; the latest dates from 1750. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| École-chapelle de Bras-d'ApicClassified heritage building (Québec) · 5 km outside the town |
Count back from today and half of Cap-Saint-Ignace’s homes are older than 1981. Few of Cap-Saint-Ignace’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 10%, the norm 15%. 26% of Cap-Saint-Ignace’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Longest lived was Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur, 85 years in all (1965). Fame, by Wikipedia: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur first, in 5 languages. 7 people on the record were born here before 1914. Most of them, 4 of 7, came into the world in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Cap-Saint-Ignace → 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 3,100 to 3,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
Of the homes standing in Cap-Saint-Ignace, 41% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 4 historic places in all, 3 with the highest designation; Vincelotte Windmill heads them. Among the 16 towns nearest its size, none has more historic places. Among the lives from its past: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1880), Joseph-Achille Francoeur (1882) and Étienne-Claude Lagueux (1765). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the designations ran from 1959 to 2007.
Vincelotte Windmill (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1690.
Before 1961: 41% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Vincelotte Windmill, Manoir Gamache and Maison et laiterie Guimont.
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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