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Canadian Pacific Railway Station, East Angus, QuebecCanadian Pacific Railway Station, East Angus, Quebec · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0
6historic places on the registers
History of East Angus · Canada’s heritage registers

In East Angus, 49% of homes go back before 1961

Most towns have 18%, so East Angus has 2.8 times as much. On the registers, the town counts 6 historic places. Few towns have as much for their size: 14 for every 10,000 residents, more than 99% of Canadian towns. Designations here include 5 municipal citations and a heritage railway station.

Historic places
6
14 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Provincial and local listings
5
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1886
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
49%
typical town: 18%
In pictures

Past and present East Angus: 6 photos, 1 old views

Go back furthest in East Angus with Église Christ Church d’East Angus: 1886. Every place on East Angus’s registers has a photo here. Begin with “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, East Angus, Quebec”, then Bureau de poste d’East Angus.

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.

Through time

East Angus, long ago

The past in one picture: one old photograph of the town. It opens full screen with a tap.

Brompton Pulp & Paper Company 1930c. 1930
The wars and betweenBrompton Pulp & Paper Company 1930Public domain

Public 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.

How it began

East Angus’s early dates, from 1912

On Wikidata the municipality of East Angus dates to March 14, 1912, with no word on whether that was its founding or a later incorporation. By 1914 the place had a station: East Angus railway station.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where East Angus’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

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.

Other federal designations

One other place Canada recognizes in East Angus

Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.

What’s designated

East Angus’s largest group: churches and religious buildings, 67%

The top of the list holds “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, East Angus, Quebec” and Église Christ Church d’East Angus.

Churches and religious buildings4
Public buildings1
Stations, lighthouses and bridges1

Each place sits in one group, from its name first, then the uses its register lists.

Provincial and local listings

On provincial and local lists in East Angus: 5 places

Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Église Christ Church d’East Angus is the earliest, from 1886; the latest dates from 1921. Each one opens its own page.

How old

For East Angus, most dated places belong to the decades after Confederation

Each place by the first construction date on its record.

British North America 1760–18660
After Confederation 1867–19134
Wars and Depression 1914–19452
Since 1946 1946 on0

Homes by age

49% of East Angus’s homes were built before 1961

Count back from today and half of East Angus’s homes are older than 1981. East Angus built little from 1981 to 2000: 12% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Few of East Angus’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 8.8%, the norm 15%.

49%
Before 1961
26%
1961–80
12%
1981–2000
8.8%
2001–15
4.5%
2016–21
East AngusTypical 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

East Angus has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size

Towns of 4,200 to 4,300 residents, by places on the registers.

East Angus6

Only Victoria County, Subdivision B has more. The typical town its size has 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.

Neighbours

East Angus and its neighbours

TownPeoplePlacesHighestOldest
East Angus4,261601886
Westbury1,20711—
Cookshire-Eaton5,491321840
Ascot Corner3,72500—
Stoke3,27200—
Dudswell1,85000—
Bury1,24300—
In brief

East Angus in brief

Before 1961: 49% of East Angus’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 6 historic places. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. Most of its dated places come from the decades after Confederation: 4 of 6. Everything else is close to the norm: the list grew between 1991 and 2001.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
  • People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
  • Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
  • The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
  • Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
  • The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
  • Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.

Questions about East Angus’s history

How old are the homes in East Angus?

Before 1961: 49% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.

How many historic places does East Angus have on the registers?

6 historic places inside East Angus, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.

What is the oldest building in East Angus?

Église Christ Church d’East Angus (Municipal citation (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1886.

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).