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1historic place on the registers

History of Frontenac · Canada’s heritage registers

Canada’s registers list 1 historic place in Frontenac

From 2016 to 2021 the town added 4.5% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town. Homes from before 1961 make up 22% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town.

Historic places

Highest designations

National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements

Provincial and local listings

municipal citations on Québec’s register

Homes built before 1961

22%

typical town: 18%

How it began

Frontenac’s milestones, starting in 1882

Until 1959, Frontenac was called Spaulding and Ditchfield. Wikidata holds January 1, 1882 as the start of the municipality of Frontenac, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where Frontenac’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

The federal directory and the Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec are both open, so every federal, provincial and municipal designation here has its point.

Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.

Provincial and local listings

On a provincial or local list in Frontenac: one place

Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.

Cited heritage site (Québec)Site patrimonial de l'Église-Anglicane-Saint-John-et-du-Cimetière-Mount Pleasant Union4e RangPhoto: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

The age of the area

Near Frontenac, within 25 km: built places from 1868 on

Reaching 25 km out from Frontenac: the historic places by their first construction date on record.

British North America 1760–18660

After Confederation 1867–19137

Wars and Depression 1914–19451

Since 1946 1946 on0

Résidence Bernardin-Therrien, in Lac-Drolet, goes back furthest, to 1868. The bars count 8 dated places within 25 km.

Around the town

10 historic places within 25 km of Frontenac

By age, Résidence Bernardin-Therrien leads, from 1868, at 23 km. They are 9 municipal citations and a heritage railway station. “Canadian American - Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Lac-Mégantic, Quebec” in Lac-Mégantic is the nearest, 3.6 km away.

The 10 nearest, within 25 km

Canadian American - Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Lac-Mégantic, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1926–1928 · 3.6 km away, in Lac-Mégantic

Édifice Eastern-Townships-BankMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1890–1898 · 3.8 km away, in Lac-Mégantic

Église Sainte-Agnès de Lac-MéganticMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1911–1913 · 4.2 km away, in Lac-Mégantic

Presbytère de Saint-SamuelMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1912 · 19 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Église Saint-Samuel de Lac-DroletMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1898–1899 · 19 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Maison René-RobertMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1887 · 19 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Vieux couvent, Lac-DroletMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1906 · 19 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Parc MorrisonCited heritage site (Québec) · 23 km away, in Nantes

Résidence Bernardin-TherrienMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1868 · 23 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Cimetière GislaCited heritage site (Québec) · 25 km away, in Nantes

Homes by age

Frontenac’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 27% of its homes

More than half of Frontenac’s housing predates 2001. Frontenac has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 19%, where most towns have 15%. 27% of Frontenac’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to the typical town’s 23%.

22%

Before 1961

27%

1961–80

27%

1981–2000

19%

2001–15

4.5%

2016–21

FrontenacTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Frontenac and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Oldest
Frontenac	1,855	1	—
Lac-Mégantic	5,947	3	1890
Nantes	1,412	0	—

In brief

Frontenac in brief

Counted by age, 22% of Frontenac’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 1 historic place. The other figures are unremarkable: Phil Routcliffe (1870) is its person of the past on the record; and its designation dates from 2004.

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. 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. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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. Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel records the province’s classements and declarations and every municipal citation, each with a description and a point.

Questions about Frontenac’s history

How many historic places does Frontenac have on the registers?

1 historic place inside Frontenac, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.

How old are the homes in Frontenac?

Before 1961: 22% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.

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).