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Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.08 places on the heritage registers lie within 25 km of Lac-des-Écorces, the nearest Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Mont-Laurier, Quebec, 11 km away. Look 14 km away, to Mont-Laurier, for the nearest place of the highest designation.
The past in one picture: one old photograph of the town. It opens full screen with a tap.
1905–1915Public 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 municipality of Lac-des-Écorces has the date October 10, 2002 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation. Behind the name Lac-des-Écorces is Lac des Écorces, lake in Lac-des-Écorces, Quebec, Canada. Beaux-Rivages, Lac-des-Écorces and Val-Barrette gave way to the present municipality in 2002.
No place near Lac-des-Écorces is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.
The bars count 8 dated places within 25 km. One predates Confederation. The earliest is La Concerne in Ferme-Neuve, begun in 1850.
The mix: 4 municipal citations, 3 places classified by Québec and a heritage railway station. Count to 25 km and there are 8. Their towns number 2: Mont-Laurier and Ferme-Neuve first.
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Mont-Laurier, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1909–1910 · 11 km away, in Mont-Laurier |
| Maison Alix-BailClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1889 · 11 km away, in Mont-Laurier |
| Pont Est de Ferme-RougeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1903 · 14 km away, in Mont-Laurier |
| Petit pont de Ferme-RougeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1903 · 14 km away, in Mont-Laurier |
| La ConcerneMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1850 · 19 km away, in Ferme-Neuve |
| Presbytère Notre-Dame-du-Très-Saint-SacrementMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1931 · 19 km away, in Ferme-Neuve |
| Église Notre-Dame-du-Très-Saint-SacrementMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1939–1940 · 19 km away, in Ferme-Neuve |
| Hôtel Isaïe-GodmerMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1928–1930 · 19 km away, in Ferme-Neuve |
New building in Lac-des-Écorces runs at the usual pace: 3.7% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%. 23% of Lac-des-Écorces’s homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Half of the homes standing in Lac-des-Écorces 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.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-des-Écorces | 3,005 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mont-Laurier | 14,598 | 2 | 1 | 1889 |
| Chute-Saint-Philippe | 1,154 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ferme-Neuve | 2,816 | 4 | 0 | 1850 |
Counted by age, 23% of Lac-des-Écorces’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: as with most towns its size, no historic place is listed; and its past has one life on the record, Gérard Desjardins (1909).
None within Lac-des-Écorces itself; the nearest is 11 km off: Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Mont-Laurier, Quebec, in Mont-Laurier.
The 2021 Census dates 23% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
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Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · 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).