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Photo: GuyFromGaspésie2 · CC0Before 1961: 34% of Chandler’s homes, where most towns have 18%. Scaled to its population, Chandler’s 1.4 per 10,000 residents beats 82% of Canadian towns.
2 old photographs of the town, in date order. Tap any picture to see it full screen.
c. 1900
1945Public 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.
The municipality succeeded 5 former municipalities in 2001. Wikidata gives the municipality of Chandler the date 1729, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. Before 2002, Chandler went by Pabos.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Places as far as 50 km from Chandler, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
The bars count 7 dated places within 50 km. Before Confederation: 2. The earliest is Maison Le Page in Percé, begun in 1843.
The first one out is Church of Our Lady of the Great River, 18 km away in Grande-Rivière. By designation: 6 municipal citations, a heritage railway station and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Port-Daniel--Gascons, Percé and Grande-Rivière hold most of them, among 4 towns.
| Church of Our Lady of the Great RiverMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1893–1894 · 18 km away, in Grande-Rivière |
| Église Saint-PhillipMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1912 · 19 km away, in Port-Daniel--Gascons |
| Presbytère de Notre-Dame-du-Mont-CarmelMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1913–1914 · 25 km away, in Port-Daniel--Gascons |
| Site patrimonial de Port-DanielCited heritage site (Québec) · 26 km away, in Port-Daniel--Gascons |
| Canadian National Railways/VIA Rail Station, Port-Daniel, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1908–1909 · 26 km away, in Port-Daniel--Gascons |
| LighthouseRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1939–1940 · 31 km away, in Percé |
| Miscou Island LighthouseNational Historic Site · 1856–1857 · 41 km away, in Shippagan |
| Percé Heritage SiteDeclared heritage site (Québec) · 43 km away, in Percé |
| Magasin général Robin de BarachoisMunicipal citation (Québec) · 45 km away, in Percé |
| Maison Le PageMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1843 · 49 km away, in Percé |
Over half of the homes in Chandler were already standing by 1981. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 5.7% of Chandler’s, against 15% in the typical town. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 40% of Chandler’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Fame, by Wikipedia: La Bolduc first, in 8 languages. The oldest birth on the record is James McIsaac’s, in 1889. Russell Keays closes the list, born in 1913. Of them all, Russell Keays lived longest: 82 years, until 1995.
Everyone born in Chandler → 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 7,300 to 7,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Portage la Prairie. Their median is 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler | 7,323 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Grande-Rivière | 3,318 | 1 | 0 | 1893 |
Before 1961: 34% of Chandler’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, Site archéologique de Pabos among them. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Its people of the past include La Bolduc (1894), Joseph-Léonard Duguay (1900) and James McIsaac (1889). The rest is about typical: its one place was designated in 1975.
Before 1961: 34% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Site archéologique de Pabos.
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).