Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Église anglicane Saint-John-in-the-Wilderness · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident L'Ange-Gardien outdoes 94% of Canadian towns, with 4.2 for every 10,000 people. The oldest dated place, Maison Cosgrove, goes back to 1850. Few homes are old by the census: 8.9% before 1961, against 18%. The record has 3 municipal citations.
Up first are Église anglicane Saint-John-in-the-Wilderness and Maison Cosgrove. Every place on L'Ange-Gardien’s registers has a photo here.
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.
Ange-Gardien was the name of L'Ange-Gardien until 1987. January 1, 1980 is the date of L'Ange-Gardien’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
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.
They date from 1850 (Maison Cosgrove) to 1899. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their designations span 2009 to 2010. Each one opens its own page.
Half of the homes standing in L'Ange-Gardien today were built before 2001. 32% of L'Ange-Gardien’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 18% of L'Ange-Gardien’s, against 27% in the typical 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 of 7,000 to 7,100 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 1. 7 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Ange-Gardien | 7,068 | 3 | 0 | 1850 |
| Vallée-de-la-Lièvre | 15,388 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lochaber-Partie-Ouest | 1,016 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bassin-de-la-Lièvre | 10,571 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Cumberland | 6,139 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Thurso | 3,439 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cardinal Creek | 11,676 | 0 | 0 | — |
L'Ange-Gardien holds 3 historic places on Canada’s registers. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. Before 1961: just 8.9% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, the list grew between 2009 and 2010.
The registers list 3 historic places inside L'Ange-Gardien.
Maison Cosgrove — its record dates it to 1850 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
8.9% 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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