Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Fairbairn House · Photo: Amqui · CC BY-SA 4.0Designations here include 3 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and a municipal citation. Per resident La Pêche outdoes 94% of Canadian towns, with 4.3 for every 10,000 people. The oldest dated place, Grist Mill, goes back to 1838.
To start: Fairbairn House, and Grist Mill. 2 of the places on La Pêche’s heritage registers are pictured here; the others keep their register record.
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.
A reorganization in 1975 folded in 5 former municipalities. The municipality of La Pêche has the date January 1, 1975 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.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
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. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
They date from 1838 (Grist Mill) to 1861. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Designations came from 1985 to 2010. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
The busiest building years in La Pêche were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 28% of today’s homes. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 23% of La Pêche’s, against 15% in the typical town. Like the typical town (18%), La Pêche has 18% of its homes from before 1961.
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 9,300 to 9,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Oromocto. The middle one has 0. 10 of them have none.
Of the homes standing in La Pêche, 18% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 4 historic places. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. Beyond that, James Reid (1839) is its person of the past on the record; and its places were designated between 1985 and 2010.
4 historic places inside La Pêche, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
Grist Mill — its record dates it to 1838 (Recognized Federal Heritage Building).
18% 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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