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Church of St. Joseph, Carleton · Photo: Concierge.2C · CC BY-SA 3.0Carleton-sur-Mer’s 7.2 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 97% of Canadian towns. The oldest dated place, Church of St. Joseph, Carleton, goes back to 1850. On the list: 3 municipal citations.
In front: “Church of St. Joseph, Carleton” and Site du Mont-Saint-Joseph. Of the places on Carleton-sur-Mer’s registers, 2 have a photo here.
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.
Set out by date: 4 old photographs of the town. Point at a dot for its year, or tap a picture to enlarge it.
c. 1900
c. 1900
c. 1910
1942Public 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.
In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Carleton-sur-Mer dates from October 4, 2000; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. The name Carleton-Saint-Omer lasted until 2005, when Carleton-sur-Mer took another. In 2000 the municipality took over from Carleton and Saint-Omer.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its 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 2003, the latest in 2008. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. “Church of St. Joseph, Carleton” and Site du Mont-Saint-Joseph lead the list. Each one opens its own page.
Over half of the homes in Carleton-sur-Mer were already standing by 1981. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 31% of Carleton-sur-Mer’s homes. New building in Carleton-sur-Mer runs at the usual pace: 4.2% 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.
4 of the 8 were born in the years before Confederation. The widest known is Joseph-Guillaume Barthe: 4 Wikipedia editions. At the other end is Philibert LeBlanc, from 1890. Of them all, William Henry Clapperton lived longest: 83 years, until 1922.
Everyone born in Carleton-sur-Mer → 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 4,200 to 4,200 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
In Carleton-sur-Mer, 26% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 3 historic places. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. Joseph-Guillaume Barthe (1816), Valmont Martin (1875) and Joseph-Rémi Vallières de Saint-Réal (1787) are the best known of its historic lives. For the rest, its places were designated between 2003 and 2008.
The registers list 3 historic places inside Carleton-sur-Mer.
Church of St. Joseph, Carleton, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1850.
The 2021 Census dates 26% 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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