Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Matamajaw · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0For Causapscal, that is 2.7 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Canada’s heritage registers list 3 historic places inside the town, one with the highest designation. The record has 2 municipal citations. Go back to 1873 and you reach Matamajaw, the oldest of them.
Look out for Matamajaw and Heppell Bridge. Of the places on Causapscal’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.
In order of date: one old photograph of the town, then the oldest view of one of its historic places. Point at a dot for its year, or tap a picture to enlarge it.
c. 1900
1937Public 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.
For the municipality of Causapscal itself, Wikidata records January 11, 1928, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger. Its oldest recorded station, Causapscal, dates from 1912.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The federal directory and the Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec are both open, so every federal, provincial and municipal designation here has its point.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The first was designated in 2002, the latest in 2009. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They date from 1900 (Docteur-Joseph-Frenette House) to 1908. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Saint-Florence tithe barnMunicipal citation (Québec) · 4.1 km outside the town |
Few of Causapscal’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 3.8%, the norm 15%. Over half of the homes in Causapscal were already standing by 1981. 28% of Causapscal’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.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Causapscal | 2,151 | 3 | 1 | 1873 |
| Lac-au-Saumon | 1,485 | 5 | 0 | 1872 |
| Amqui | 6,059 | 1 | 0 | 1904 |
In Causapscal, 48% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Matamajaw heads them. Everything else is close to the norm: the designations ran from 1984 to 2009.
48% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Matamajaw.
Matamajaw, a Classified heritage site (Québec), begun in 1873.
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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