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.
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, East Angus, Quebec · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Most 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.
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.
Bureau de poste d’East Angus
Presbytère de Saint-Louis-de-France
Église Emmanuel United Church
Church of St Louis of France
Église Christ Church d’East Angus+1See all photosPhotos 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.
The past in one picture: one old photograph of the town. It opens full screen with a tap.
c. 1930Public 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.
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.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
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.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The top of the list holds “Canadian Pacific Railway Station, East Angus, Quebec” and Église Christ Church d’East Angus.
Each place sits in one group, from its name first, then the uses its register lists.
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.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
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%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 4,200 to 4,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Victoria County, Subdivision B has more. The typical town its size has 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Angus | 4,261 | 6 | 0 | 1886 |
| Westbury | 1,207 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Cookshire-Eaton | 5,491 | 3 | 2 | 1840 |
| Ascot Corner | 3,725 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stoke | 3,272 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dudswell | 1,850 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bury | 1,243 | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
Before 1961: 49% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
6 historic places inside East Angus, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
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).