Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Horace-Bouffard · Photo: Amqui · CC BY 3.0Among the places are 2 municipal citations and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. The earliest construction date, 1887, belongs to Presbytère de Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane. Relative to its size Matane has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, more than 86% of Canadian towns.
Each of Matane’s designated places has a photo. Among them: Maison Horace-Bouffard and Armoury.
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.
Until 1937, Matane was called Saint-Jérôme de Matane. The municipality of Matane has the date April 1, 1893 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation.
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.
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Presbytère de Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane is the earliest, from 1887; the latest dates from 1896. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Designations came from 2004 to 2008. Each one opens its own page.
Matane built little from 2001 to 2015: 6.1% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Before 1961: 29% of Matane’s homes, against 18% in most towns. More of Matane’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 42%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 14,100 to 14,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Rosemère and Sandwich have more. The typical town its size has 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matane | 14,180 | 3 | 0 | 1887 |
| Sainte-Félicité | 1,053 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Ulric | 1,658 | 0 | 0 | — |
Before 1961: 29% of Matane’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 3 historic places. Only 2 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. The other figures are unremarkable: its past has one life on the record, Georges Dionne (1876); and its places were designated between 1991 and 2008.
Inside Matane: 3 historic places.
By its record, Presbytère de Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane, from 1887 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
Before 1961: 29% of its homes; 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).
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