LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1843Maison Simons95 chemin du BrûléPhoto: Malimage · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Chapelle Saint-Dunstan de Lac-Beauport · Photo: Malimage · CC BY-SA 3.03historic places on the registers
History of Lac-Beauport · Canada’s heritage registers
Lac-Beauport has 3 historic places on the registers
Scaled to its population Lac-Beauport’s record is long: 3.5 per 10,000 residents, more than 92% of Canadian towns. The earliest construction date, 1843, belongs to Maison Simons. The typical town keeps 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 5.9%. Among the places are 3 municipal citations.
Historic places
3
3.5 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
3
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1843
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
5.9%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Historic Lac-Beauport: 3 photos, 2 old pictures
All of Lac-Beauport’s designated places are pictured. Up first are Chapelle Saint-Dunstan de Lac-Beauport and Maison Simons.
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.
Through time
Lac-Beauport before 1950
Set out by date: 2 old photographs of the town. Tap any picture to see it full screen.
c. 1900
c. 1900Public 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.
The map
Where Lac-Beauport’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 3, by tier
3 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
3 more places Lac-Beauport or its province protects
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Maison Simons is the earliest, from 1843; the latest dates from 1966. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1889–1890Chapelle Saint-James de Lac-Beauportchemin Saint-JamesPhoto: Raynald Boutin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1966Chapelle Saint-Dunstan de Lac-Beauportchemin de la ChapellePhoto: Malimage · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Homes by age
New homes stand out in Lac-Beauport: 7.8% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 31% of Lac-Beauport’s, against 15% in the typical town. Over half of the homes in Lac-Beauport were already standing by 2001. In Lac-Beauport, 27% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
5.9%
Before 1961
27%
1961–80
28%
1981–2000
31%
2001–15
7.8%
2016–21
Lac-BeauportTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Lac-Beauport has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 8,500 to 8,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Lac-Beauport3
The typical town its size has 0. For 12, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Lac-Beauport and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Beauport | 8,524 | 3 | 0 | 1843 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | 16,222 | 4 | 0 | 1820 |
| Orsainville | 14,751 | 2 | 2 | 1791 |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | 17,558 | 1 | 1 | 1760 |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | 9,985 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bourg-Royal | 14,430 | 2 | 0 | 1778 |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Lac-Beauport in brief
Inside Lac-Beauport there are 3 historic places. It tops the 16 towns nearest its size for historic places. Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 5.9%, against 18% in the typical town. The rest is about typical: one person of its past, Joseph John Lannin (1866); and every designation dates from 2007.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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.
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
Questions about Lac-Beauport’s history
How many historic places does Lac-Beauport have on the registers?
3 historic places in Lac-Beauport, from Canada’s heritage registers.
What is the oldest building in Lac-Beauport?
Maison Simons, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1843.
How old are the homes in Lac-Beauport?
Before 1961: 5.9% 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).