History of Lac-Bouchette · Canada’s heritage registers
Lac-Bouchette’s 1 historic place is a top designation
Lac-Bouchette’s one place is Chapelle Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue, a classified heritage building (québec) begun in 1907. More of its homes are old than in most towns: 28% before 1961, against 18%.
Public 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.
How it began
Lac-Bouchette on record since 1886
A reorganization in 1971 folded in Lac-Bouchette and Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin. Wikidata gives the municipality of Lac-Bouchette the date September 25, 1971, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger. The tracks reached Lac-Bouchette in 1886.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designations
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 1, by tier
1 Highest designations
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Lac-Bouchette with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
2 places of the highest rank within 25 km of Lac-Bouchette
The mix: 2 municipal citations, a National Historic Site and a place classified by Québec. Historic Village of Val-Jalbert in Chambord is the nearest, 21 km away. Count to 25 km and there are 4.
The biggest share of Lac-Bouchette’s homes dates from 1961 to 1980: 33%
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 11% of Lac-Bouchette’s, against 15% in the typical town. From 2016 on, Lac-Bouchette built only 3.1% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%. Half of the homes standing in Lac-Bouchette today were built before 1981.
28%
Before 1961
33%
1961–80
26%
1981–2000
11%
2001–15
3.1%
2016–21
Lac-BouchetteTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
Lac-Bouchette in brief
Counted by age, 28% of Lac-Bouchette’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Chapelle Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue. The other figures are unremarkable: its one place was designated in 1977.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
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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.
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Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
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The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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Québec’s register. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
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The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
Questions about Lac-Bouchette’s history
Which places in Lac-Bouchette have the highest designation?
Chapelle Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue.
What is the oldest building in Lac-Bouchette?
Chapelle Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue — its record dates it to 1907 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
How old are the homes in Lac-Bouchette?
Before 1961: 28% 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.
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