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Joliette Court House · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Counted by designation, there are 2 municipal citations and a heritage railway station. Go back to 1860 and you reach Joliette Court House, the oldest of them. Measured against its size, Joliette’s 1.8 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 85% of Canadian towns.
All of Joliette’s designated places are pictured. 2 of Joliette’s places also have old views on their own pages. In front: Joliette Court House and “Canadian National Railways Station, Joliette, Quebec”.
Canadian National Railways Station, Joliette, Quebec
St Charles Borromeo Cathedral
Évêché de Joliette+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.
One old photograph of the town, then the oldest views of 2 of its historic places, set out by date. Pick a dot to see the year; pick a picture to see it large.
1880
c. 1886
1905Public 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.
Joliette takes its name from Barthélemy Joliette, canadian politician. Rail service is on record from 1901, when Joliette railway station opened. In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Joliette dates from January 1, 1864; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They date from 1880 (Évêché de Joliette) to 1887. Each one opens its own page.
Homes built from 2016 to 2021 make up 6.5% of Joliette’s, above the typical 4.1%. The busiest building years in Joliette were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 29% of today’s homes. Half of the homes standing in Joliette today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
At 92, Maurice Breton outlived the rest, dying in 2001. The decades after Confederation gave 8 of the 11. 11 people on the record were born here before 1914. By Wikipedia’s reach, Antonio Barrette leads, with 7 articles.
Everyone born in Joliette → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 22,200 to 22,600 residents, by places on the registers.
The typical town its size has 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joliette | 22,408 | 4 | 1 | 1860 |
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 1 | 1 | 1803 |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 1 | 1 | 1840 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies | 9,622 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Crabtree | 4,237 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Thomas | 3,477 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes | 3,328 | 0 | 0 | — |
Counted by age, 26% of Joliette’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 4 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Joliette Court House heads them. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Of its people of the past, the best known are Antonio Barrette (1899), Louis Rivet (1873) and Maurice Breton (1909). The other figures are unremarkable: its places were designated between 1981 and 1999.
It is Joliette Court House.
Joliette Court House — its record dates it to 1860 (National Historic Site).
26% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
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).
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