Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive Shipyard · Photo: Malimage · CC BY-SA 3.0Before 1961: 35% of Les Éboulements’s homes, where most towns have 18%. The registers put 3 historic places inside its boundary, 2 of them of the highest rank. The record has a municipal citation. Add one just outside the town.
Two to begin with: Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive Shipyard and Chapelle de procession de Saint-Nicolas. Photos show every place Les Éboulements’s registers name.
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.
The municipality of Les Éboulements has the date July 1, 1855 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation. The name Les Éboulements comes from Assumption of Mary. Before 1956, Les Éboulements went by L'Assomption de la Sainte-Vierge.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
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.
Their dates run from 1751, with Chapelle de procession de Saint-Nicolas, to 1946. The group holds a National Historic Site and a place classified by Québec. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Site patrimonial de la plage et du quai de Saint-IrénéeCited heritage site (Québec) · 3 km outside the town |
Only 16% of Les Éboulements’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. Count back from today and half of Les Éboulements’s homes are older than 1981. In Les Éboulements, 26% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Éboulements | 1,661 | 3 | 2 | 1751 |
| L'Isle-aux-Coudres | 1,083 | 7 | 7 | 1728 |
| Saint-Hilarion | 1,221 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Baie-Saint-Paul | 7,760 | 3 | 2 | 1828 |
| Saint-Urbain | 1,431 | 2 | 1 | 1850 |
Les Éboulements has 35% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 3 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive Shipyard among them. Beyond that, Paul Vilmond Savard (1864) and Jean Côté (1867) are its people of the past on the record; and its places were designated between 1961 and 2010.
Chapelle de procession de Saint-Nicolas (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1751.
The 2021 Census dates 35% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
These: Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive Shipyard and Chapelle de procession de Saint-Nicolas.
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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