National Historic Site · 1883–1884Magog Textile Mill160 Principale Street East
Église Sainte-Marguerite-Marie · Photo: Justin Petrilli · CC BY-SA 3.03historic places on the registers
History of Magog · Canada’s heritage registers
Magog: 3 historic places, one with the highest designation
The list takes in 2 municipal citations. Its oldest building on the record is Maison Merry, from 1821. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from January 28, 1888, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding. Relative to its size Magog has 1 per 10,000 residents, more than 79% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
3
1 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
2
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1821
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
20%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
See Magog’s history: 2 photos
Among them: Église Sainte-Marguerite-Marie and Maison Merry. There are photos here of 2 of Magog’s designated places.
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 map
Where Magog’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
The 3, by tier
1 Highest designations2 Provincial and local listings
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. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
Highest designations
One place in Magog with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and local listings
2 local listings in Magog
Designations came from 2008 to 2009. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The oldest, Maison Merry, dates from 1821; the newest from 1949. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1821Maison Merry708 rue Principale OuestPhoto: Citoyenne Outlet · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1949–1950Église Sainte-Marguerite-Marierue Saint-Patrice EstPhoto: Justin Petrilli · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Homes by age
Magog’s building boom came from 1981 to 2000: 27% of its homes
From 2016 to 2021 Magog added 4.9% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. 24% of Magog’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. Homes from before 1961 are 20% of Magog’s housing, about the typical 18%.
20%
Before 1961
25%
1961–80
27%
1981–2000
24%
2001–15
4.9%
2016–21
MagogTypical 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 its size
Magog has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 30,300 to 31,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Magog3
Just one has more: Des Explorateurs. The typical town its size has 1. 8 of them have nothing on the registers.
Neighbours
Magog and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magog | 30,764 | 3 | 1 | 1821 |
| Orford | 5,698 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Austin | 1,959 | 2 | 1 | 1907 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | 2,938 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Eastman | 2,706 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Ayer's Cliff | 1,284 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Stanstead | 1,171 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Magog in brief
Counted by age, 20% of Magog’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Magog Textile Mill heads them. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its past has one life on the record, Rouville Beaudry (1904); and the list grew between 1989 and 2009.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
- Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
Questions about Magog’s history
Which places in Magog have the highest designation?
Just one: Magog Textile Mill.
What is the oldest building in Magog?
By its record, Maison Merry, from 1821 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
How old are the homes in Magog?
20% 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).