Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Doucet · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Before 1961: 32% of Maskinongé’s homes, where most towns have 18%. All 3 historic places listed here are of the highest rank.
To start: Maison Doucet, and Ancien presbytère de Saint-Joseph-de-Maskinongé. Photos show every place Maskinongé’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 name Maskinongé comes from Esox masquinongy, species of fish. A reorganization in 2001 folded in Maskinongé and Saint-Joseph-de-Maskinongé. Wikidata gives the municipality of Maskinongé the date April 25, 2001, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its 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.
Their dates run from 1765, with Maison Doucet, to 1827. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. The first was designated in 1977, the latest in 2012. Each one opens its own page.
Over half of the homes in Maskinongé were already standing by 1981. From 2016 on, Maskinongé built 4.6% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. In Maskinongé, 28% 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.
The first on the line is David Morrison Armstrong (1805). Antonin Galipeault closes the list, born in 1879. By Wikipedia’s reach, Antonin Galipeault leads, with 4 articles. 4 of the 6 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Maskinongé → 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maskinongé | 2,457 | 3 | 3 | 1765 |
| Louiseville | 7,570 | 2 | 1 | 1898 |
| Sainte-Ursule | 1,363 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2,115 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Yamachiche | 2,801 | 3 | 3 | 1850 |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | 2,770 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 1 | 1 | 1874 |
Older stock first: 32% of homes in Maskinongé were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 3 historic places, 3 with the highest designation, Maison Doucet among them. Of its people of the past, the best known are Antonin Galipeault (1879), Joseph-Étienne Guinard (1864) and Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière (1874). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1977 and 2012.
Maison Doucet, a Classified heritage building (Québec), begun in 1765.
Maison Doucet, Ancien presbytère de Saint-Joseph-de-Maskinongé and Magasin général Le Brun.
The 2021 Census dates 32% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical 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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