Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours de L'Islet · Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes from before 1961 make up 50% of L'Islet’s stock, above the 18% of the typical town. All 3 historic places listed here are of the highest rank. Per resident it outdoes 97% of Canadian towns, with 7.7 for every 10,000 people.
Begin with Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours de L'Islet, then Chapelle des Marins (L'Islet). All of L'Islet’s designated places are pictured.
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.
A single old picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap the picture to enlarge it.
c. 1910Public 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.
L'Islet-sur-Mer–Saint-Eugène–L'Islet was the name of L'Islet until 2000. The municipality succeeded L'Islet, L'Islet-sur-Mer and Saint-Eugène in 2000. Wikidata holds January 1, 2000 as the start of the municipality of L'Islet, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.
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.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Designations came from 1957 to 1981. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The oldest, Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours de L'Islet, dates from 1768; the newest from 1835. Each one opens its own page.
More than half of L'Islet’s housing predates 1961. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 10% of L'Islet’s, against 15% in the typical town. Few of L'Islet’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 17%, the norm 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
It starts with Jean-Baptiste Fortin, born in 1764. Fame, by Wikipedia: Joseph-Elzéar Bernier first, in 7 languages. Joseph-Elzéar Bernier carries a national designation as a historic person. Of the 9, 6 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in L'Islet → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 3,800 to 3,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Just one has more: Cap-Santé. Their median is 1. 8 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Islet | 3,874 | 3 | 3 | 1768 |
| Cap-Saint-Ignace | 3,074 | 4 | 3 | 1690 |
| Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | 3,330 | 4 | 1 | 1779 |
| Saint-Aubert | 1,387 | 0 | 0 | — |
Before 1961: 50% of L'Islet’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all, 3 with the highest designation. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Joseph-Elzéar Bernier (1852), Hospice-Anthelme Verreau (1828) and Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne (1848) are the best known of its historic lives. The rest is about typical: the designations ran from 1957 to 1981.
50% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
By its record, Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours de L'Islet, from 1768 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours de L'Islet, Salle des habitants de L'Islet-sur-Mer and Chapelle des Marins (L'Islet).
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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