Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Forge-menuiserie Cauchon · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0The list takes in a municipal citation. Per resident La Malbaie outdoes 96% of Canadian towns, with 6 for every 10,000 people. Homes from before 1961 make up 32% of the stock, above the 18% of the typical town. Of the dated places, Grange-étable Bhérer is the oldest, from 1840.
Every place on La Malbaie’s registers has a photo here. Look out for Forge-menuiserie Cauchon and Grange-étable Bhérer. Credit goes to 3 photographers, each named on the photo.
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.
4 old photographs of the town, in date order. Pick a dot to see the year; pick a picture to see it large.
1867–1868
c. 1868
c. 1870
c. 1912Public 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.
A reorganization in 1999 folded in 5 former municipalities. The municipality of La Malbaie has the date December 1, 1999 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
The oldest, Grange-étable Bhérer, dates from 1840; the newest from 1882. By designation: 3 places classified by Québec and a National Historic Site. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
At the head of the list: La Malbaie Historic District and Grange-étable Bhérer.
The groups come from each place’s name and its recorded functions, by what it was built as.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
Before 1867: 4 of the 5 with a date.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Cap au Saumon LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 100 m outside the town |
Over half of the homes in La Malbaie were already standing by 1981. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 32% of La Malbaie’s homes. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 11% of La Malbaie’s, against 15% in the typical town.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
13 Wikipedias cover Laure Conan, the most of anyone here. Counting only births before 1914, there are 17. The longest life was Wilbrod Bherer’s: 93 years, to 1998. 9 of the 17 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in La Malbaie → 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 8,300 to 8,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Strathcona. Their median is 0. 12 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Malbaie | 8,293 | 5 | 4 | 1840 |
| Clermont | 3,117 | 1 | 0 | 1949 |
| Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs | 1,169 | 0 | 0 | — |
Counted by age, 32% of La Malbaie’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 5 historic places in all, 4 with the highest designation; La Malbaie Historic District heads them. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places.
4 of the 5 dated places belong to the years before Confederation. Among the lives from its past: Laure Conan (1845), Alexis Lapointe (1860) and Laure Gaudreault (1889). Everything else is close to the norm: the designations ran from 1960 to 2025.
These: La Malbaie Historic District, Grange-étable Bhérer, Église Sainte-Agnès and Forge-menuiserie Cauchon.
32% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Grange-étable Bhérer, a Classified heritage building (Québec), begun in 1840.
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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