Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
L'Isle-Verte Court House · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0L'Isle-Verte has 3.4 times what the typical town has (18%). Inside the town the registers count 7 historic places; 4 are top designations. Its oldest building on the record is Moulin du Petit-Sault, from 1823. The record has 2 municipal citations and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building.
Photos show every place L'Isle-Verte’s registers name. You can start with L'Isle-Verte Court House and Moulin du Petit-Sault. They come from 4 photographers.
Moulin du Petit-Sault
Louis Bertrand House
La Décollation-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church
Girard House
Site de la maison Narcisse-Bertrand+2See all photosPhotos 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.
One old photograph of the town and the oldest view of one of its historic places, in date order. Each dot on the line is a picture; tap one to open it full screen.
c. 1914
c. 1925Public 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.
A reorganization in 2000 folded in L'Isle-Verte and Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte. On the open record, L'Isle-Verte as a municipality goes back to February 9, 2000, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its 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.
Moulin du Petit-Sault is the earliest, from 1823; the latest dates from 1859. By designation: 2 National Historic Sites and 2 places classified by Québec. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The top of the list holds Louis Bertrand House and L'Isle-Verte Court House. Second on the list: churches and religious buildings, 2 of them. All told, 4 kinds of place appear.
Each place sits in one group, from its name first, then the uses its register lists.
Start with Site de la maison Narcisse-Bertrand and Îlot religieux de L’Isle-Verte. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their designations span 2007 to 2008. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Presbytère de Notre-Dame-des-Sept-DouleursMunicipal citation (Québec) · 2.2 km outside the town |
| Île Verte LighthouseNational Historic Site · 3.6 km outside the town |
| Site patrimonial du Phare-de-l'Île-VerteClassified heritage site (Québec) · 3.7 km outside the town |
Count back from today and half of L'Isle-Verte’s homes are older than 1961. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 7.8% of L'Isle-Verte’s, against 23% in the typical town. Only 7% of L'Isle-Verte’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The longest life here was Gérard Filion’s, 96 years, ending in 2005. Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 5 births here before 1914. By Wikipedia’s reach, Charles Arthur Gauvreau leads, with 6 articles. Most of them, 3 of 5, came into the world in the decades after Confederation.
Everyone born in L'Isle-Verte → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Isle-Verte | 1,427 | 7 | 4 | 1823 |
| Saint-Arsène | 1,269 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges | 1,146 | 4 | 3 | 1803 |
| Trois-Pistoles | 3,123 | 2 | 1 | 1842 |
| Cacouna | 1,888 | 3 | 2 | 1835 |
Of the homes standing in L'Isle-Verte, 60% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 7 historic places, 4 with the highest designation, Louis Bertrand House among them. 3 of the places of the highest designation stand within 400 m of La Décollation-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church. Among the lives from its past: Charles Arthur Gauvreau (1860), Joseph-Alfred Dion (1897) and Gérard Filion (1909). Beyond that, most dated places belong to the years before Confederation; and the designations ran from 1962 to 2015.
Before 1961: 60% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
They are Louis Bertrand House, L'Isle-Verte Court House, Moulin du Petit-Sault and La Décollation-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church.
Moulin du Petit-Sault (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1823.
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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