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1historic place on the registers

History of Caplan · Canada’s heritage registers

1 historic place on the heritage registers in Caplan

Caplan has kept more old homes than most towns: 32% were built before 1961, against 18%. The 2021 Census dates 4.9% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.

Historic places

Highest designations

National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements

Provincial and local listings

municipal citations on Québec’s register

Homes built before 1961

32%

typical town: 18%

How it began

The making of Caplan, from 1875

The record puts Caplan’s founding on January 1, 1875. It has been 151 years since then. Caplan was known as Saint-Charles de Caplan until 1964.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0); dates read from French Wikipedia’s article “Caplan (Québec)”, revision 239790358 (CC BY-SA 4.0), and stated in our own words.

The map

Where Caplan’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

Provincial and local listings

Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.

The 1, by tier

1 Provincial and local listings

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.

Provincial and local listings

One more place Caplan or its province protects

Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.

Municipal citation (Québec)La Neigière

Around the town

14 km from Caplan: Pont de Saint-Edgar, the nearest on the registers

The oldest, Magasin général J.-A.-Gendron, dates from 1890, 18 km away. They are 3 municipal citations and 2 places classified by Québec. Between them, 2 towns share them, mainly New Richmond and Bonaventure.

The 5 nearest, within 25 km

Pont de Saint-EdgarClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1938 · 14 km away, in New Richmond

Site du patrimoine de New RichmondCited heritage site (Québec) · 15 km away, in New Richmond

Site du patrimoine de l'Église-de-Saint-BonaventureCited heritage site (Québec) · 16 km away, in Bonaventure

Magasin général J.-A.-GendronClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1890–1917 · 18 km away, in New Richmond

Gaspesian British Heritage VillageCited heritage site (Québec) · 18 km away, in New Richmond

Homes by age

32% of Caplan’s homes were built before 1961

More than half of Caplan’s housing predates 1981. Few of Caplan’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 11%, the norm 15%. 30% of Caplan’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.

32%

Before 1961

30%

1961–80

21%

1981–2000

11%

2001–15

4.9%

2016–21

CaplanTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Caplan and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Highest	Oldest
Caplan	1,961	1	0	—
Saint-Siméon	1,254	0	0	—
New Richmond	3,947	4	2	1890
Bonaventure	2,719	1	0	—

In brief

Caplan in brief

The 2021 Census dates 32% of Caplan’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all. For the rest, its one place was designated in 2006.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

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.
The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
Québec’s register. Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel records the province’s classements and declarations and every municipal citation, each with a description and a point.
People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
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.

Questions about Caplan’s history

How many historic places does Caplan have on the registers?

Inside Caplan: 1 historic place.

How old are the homes in Caplan?

32% predate 1961, where 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.

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).