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Maison Woodbury-Matte · Photo: JeffT · CC BY-SA 3.0Go back to 1835 in L'Ancienne-Lorette and you reach Maison Woodbury-Matte, the oldest of its places. L'Ancienne-Lorette has 1.1 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 80% of Canadian towns. Before 1961: just 9.2% of the homes, where most towns have 18%.
The photos cover both places on L'Ancienne-Lorette’s registers. Two to begin with: Maison Woodbury-Matte and Calvaire de Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation.
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.
Ancienne-Lorette was the name of L'Ancienne-Lorette until 1987. The date Wikidata keeps for L'Ancienne-Lorette is January 2006; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
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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.
The oldest, Maison Woodbury-Matte, dates from 1835; the newest from 1894. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Designations came from 1971 to 1988. Each one opens its own page.
They belong to 3 towns, chiefly Loretteville, Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy and Cité-Universitaire. At 4.7 km, Maison Savard in Loretteville is the closest. The oldest, Maison Routhier, dates from 1754, 4.7 km away.
| Maison SavardClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1760 · 4.7 km away, in Loretteville |
| Maison RouthierClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1754–1782 · 4.7 km away, in Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy |
| Parc de la VisitationClassified heritage site (Québec) · 4.7 km away, in Cité-Universitaire |
More than half of L'Ancienne-Lorette’s housing predates 1981. From 2016 to 2021 L'Ancienne-Lorette added 5.5% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. L'Ancienne-Lorette has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 30%, where most towns have 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Best known is Antoine Plamondon, with articles in 6 Wikipedia languages. Counting only births before 1914, there are 8. Antoine Plamondon reached 91, the longest life here, ending in 1895. Of the 8, 5 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in L'Ancienne-Lorette → 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 17,700 to 18,100 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Cold Lake. The typical town its size has 0. 13 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | 17,876 | 2 | 2 | 1835 |
| L'Aéroport | 13,630 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Duberger—Les Saules | 27,419 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Des Châtels | 14,836 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Plateau | 14,176 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy | 14,541 | 1 | 1 | 1754 |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | 37,164 | 4 | 3 | 1684 |
Canada’s heritage lists give L'Ancienne-Lorette 2 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, Maison Woodbury-Matte among them. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Antoine Plamondon (1804), Wilfrid Hamel (1895) and Joseph Gagnier (1854) lead its people of the past. Its homes are mostly newer: 9.2% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: the designations ran from 1971 to 1988.
Maison Woodbury-Matte and Calvaire de Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation.
By its record, Maison Woodbury-Matte, from 1835 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
9.2% predate 1961, where 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).
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