LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1950–1951Presbytère de Dégelis384 avenue PrincipalePhoto: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Presbytère de Dégelis · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.01historic place on the registers
History of Dégelis · Canada’s heritage registers
Dégelis: 1 historic place on Canada’s heritage registers
Few towns have as much for their size as Dégelis: 3.4 for every 10,000 residents, more than 91% of Canadian towns. Homes from before 1961 make up 33% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town. That place is Presbytère de Dégelis, a municipal citation (québec), from 1950. Wikidata dates the municipality to 1880, which may be its founding, its incorporation or a later merger.
Historic places
1
3.4 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
1
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1950
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
33%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Dégelis’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
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
One more place Dégelis or its province protects
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Around the town
Entrepôt du magasin général L. P. Beaulieu, 14 km from Dégelis, is the closest
They stand in 3 towns, Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac, Haut-Madawaska and Edmundston among them. The oldest, Cabano railway station, dates from 1889, 24 km away. Count to 25 km and there are 4.
The 4 nearest, within 25 km
| Entrepôt du magasin général L. P. BeaulieuMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1930 · 14 km away, in Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac |
| Pont Romain-CaronMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1940 · 18 km away, in Haut-Madawaska |
| Cabano railway stationMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1889 · 24 km away, in Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac |
| Mont FarlagneLocal historic place · 24 km away, in Edmundston |
Homes by age
Little new building in Dégelis: 2.2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Half of the homes standing in Dégelis today were built before 1981. Few of Dégelis’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 7.6%, the norm 15%. The busiest building years in Dégelis were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 35% of today’s homes.
33%
Before 1961
35%
1961–80
22%
1981–2000
7.6%
2001–15
2.2%
2016–21
DégelisTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Dégelis has the 3rd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,900 to 3,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Dégelis1
Only Saint-Marc-des-Carrières and Scott have more. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
In brief
Dégelis in brief
Dégelis’s homes from before 1961 come to 33%, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 2 have more historic places. The other figures are unremarkable: its designation dates from 2010.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
- Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
Questions about Dégelis’s history
How many historic places does Dégelis have on the registers?
1 historic place in Dégelis, from Canada’s heritage registers.
How old are the homes in Dégelis?
33% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
What is the oldest building in Dégelis?
Presbytère de Dégelis — its record dates it to 1950 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
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).