Photo: Providence Doucet providence · CC0History around Crabtree: 12 designated places within 10 km
The closest top-tier heritage to Crabtree is in Saint-Paul, 4 km away. The municipality’s date on Wikidata is January 1, 1945: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation, the record doesn’t say which.
Crabtree before 1950
One picture from before 1950: one old photograph of the town. Tap it to see it full screen.
1925–1926Public 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.
Leave Crabtree and the first historic place is Église Saint-Paul, 2.9 km away
They belong to 4 towns, chiefly Saint-Jacques, Joliette and Saint-Paul. The registers hold 12 within 10 km. Among them are 8 municipal citations, 2 places classified by Québec and a National Historic Site.
The 12 nearest, within 10 km
| Église Saint-PaulClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1803–1804 · 2.9 km away, in Saint-Paul |
| Joliette Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1860–1863 · 7 km away, in Joliette |
| Évêché de JolietteMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1880 · 7.2 km away, in Joliette |
| St Charles Borromeo CathedralMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1887–1892 · 7.3 km away, in Joliette |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Joliette, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1901–1902 · 7.3 km away, in Joliette |
| Vieux Collège (Saint-Jacques, Quebec)Municipal citation (Québec) · 1912 · 7.6 km away, in Saint-Jacques |
| Presbytère de Saint-JacquesMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1897 · 7.6 km away, in Saint-Jacques |
| Église Saint-Jacques (Saint-Jacques, Quebec)Municipal citation (Québec) · 1916–1918 · 7.7 km away, in Saint-Jacques |
| Ancien bureau de poste de Saint-JacquesMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1927 · 7.7 km away, in Saint-Jacques |
| Maison Louise-PariseauMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1905 · 7.7 km away, in Saint-Jacques |
| Couvent des sœurs de Sainte-AnneMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1913 · 7.7 km away, in Saint-Jacques |
| Maison Antoine-LacombeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1840 · 9.8 km away, in Saint-Charles-Borromée |
The 10 km around Crabtree keep buildings from as early as 1803
Within 10 km of Crabtree but outside it: each historic place by its first recorded construction date.
The chart rests on 12 dated places within 10 km. 3 predate Confederation. Église Saint-Paul, in Saint-Paul, is the oldest (1803).
Crabtree’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 30% of its homes
Crabtree has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 22%, where most towns have 15%. Like the typical town (18%), Crabtree has 22% of its homes from before 1961. From 2016 to 2021 Crabtree added 5.7% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 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.
How Crabtree compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,200 to 4,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Victoria County, Subdivision B, East Angus and Stellarton. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
Crabtree and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crabtree | 4,237 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 1 | 1 | 1803 |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | 1,296 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Joliette | 22,408 | 4 | 1 | 1860 |
| Saint-Liguori | 2,268 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 6 | 0 | 1897 |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 1 | 1 | 1840 |
Crabtree in brief
The 2021 Census dates 22% of Crabtree’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Towns its size usually have more historic places; the middle one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
- Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
Questions about Crabtree’s history
How many historic places does Crabtree have on the registers?
Not within Crabtree. Its nearest is a top designation: Église Saint-Paul, 2.9 km away in Saint-Paul.
When did Crabtree become a municipality?
By Wikidata, Crabtree dates from January 1, 1945; the record doesn’t say whether that is a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
How old are the homes in Crabtree?
The 2021 Census dates 22% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · 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).