Photo: Denisn72sympatico · Public domainAn older town: 42% of East Broughton’s homes predate 1961
East Broughton has 2.4 times what the typical town has (18%). The registers count 31 places within 25 km of East Broughton; the closest, Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Tring-Jonction, Quebec, is 8.4 km away. Heritage of the first rank begins 20 km away, in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce. Of the 3 people born in East Broughton before 1914, Tancrède Labbé came first.
East Broughton before 1950
From before 1950 comes one old photograph of the town. Open it full screen with a tap.
c. 1923Public 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.
Most of what stands within 25 km of East Broughton dates from the decades after Confederation
No place near East Broughton is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
Oldest of all: Manoir Taschereau, Sainte-Marie, 1810. 26 places within 25 km have a date. 9 go back before 1867.
The registers find 31 places within 25 km of East Broughton
Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, Sainte-Marie and Saint-Victor hold most of them, among 10 towns. Its 8 places of national rank start with Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Institutional Ensemble, at 18 km. Among them are 20 municipal citations, 6 places classified by Québec and 2 heritage railway stations.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Tring-Jonction, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1914–1915 · 8.4 km away, in Tring-Jonction |
| Site patrimonial de l'Église-de-Saint-FrédéricCited heritage site (Québec) · 11 km away, in Saint-Frédéric |
| Cimetière de Saint-SéverinMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1878 · 12 km away, in Saint-Frédéric |
| Église Saint-VictorMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1898–1899 · 16 km away, in Saint-Victor |
| Presbytère de Saint-VictorMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1912 · 16 km away, in Saint-Victor |
| Saint-Victor cemeteryMunicipal citation (Québec) · 16 km away, in Saint-Victor |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Institutional EnsembleNational Historic Site · 1865–1912 · 18 km away, in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce |
| Hôtel de ville de Saint-Joseph-de-BeauceMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1937–1938 · 18 km away, in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce CourthouseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1859–1862 · 18 km away, in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce |
| Cimetière de Saint-ÉphremMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1882 · 20 km away, in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce |
| Presbytère de Saint-Éphrem-de-BeauceMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1880 · 20 km away, in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce |
| Église de Saint-Elzéar, Saint-ElzéarClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1852–1854 · 20 km away, in Saint-Elzéar |
Little new building in East Broughton: 1.5% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 5.9% of East Broughton’s, against 15% in the typical town. Few of East Broughton’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 16%, the norm 23%. 34% of East Broughton’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, more than the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
3 East Broughton births on record from before 1914
The earliest is Tancrède Labbé, born in 1887. Fame, by Wikipedia: Sarto Fournier first, in 4 languages. Joseph-Émile Perron lived longest, to 86, dying in 1979. Sarto Fournier closes the list, born in 1908.
Everyone born in East Broughton → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
East Broughton and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Broughton | 2,311 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tring-Jonction | 1,626 | 1 | 0 | 1914 |
| Saint-Frédéric | 1,172 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Victor | 2,344 | 3 | 0 | 1898 |
East Broughton in brief
In East Broughton, 42% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Its history in lives: Sarto Fournier (1908), Tancrède Labbé (1887) and Joseph-Émile Perron (1893).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- 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.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
Questions about East Broughton’s history
How many historic places does East Broughton have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside East Broughton; Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Tring-Jonction, Quebec, in Tring-Jonction, is 8.4 km away.
When did East Broughton become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for East Broughton is February 4, 1994, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in East Broughton?
42% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
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).