History of Mont-Carmel · Canada’s heritage registers
An older town: 57% of Mont-Carmel’s homes predate 1961
For Mont-Carmel, that is 3.2 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Inside the town the registers count 1 historic place. It is Chapelle du Lac-de-l'Est, a municipal citation (québec) begun in 1926. A further 2 sit a short way past the edge of town.
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
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municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1926
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
57%
typical town: 18%
How it began
Back to 1855: Mont-Carmel’s first record
The name Notre Dame du Mont Carmel lasted until 1969, when Mont-Carmel took another. A single date stands for Mont-Carmel as a municipality on Wikidata, July 1, 1855, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
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.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Mont-Carmel: one place
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Mont-Carmel added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 1.9%, where most towns have 4.1%
Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 21% of Mont-Carmel’s, against 27% in the typical town. Few of Mont-Carmel’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 12%, the norm 23%. Mont-Carmel built little from 2001 to 2015: 11% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
57%
Before 1961
21%
1961–80
12%
1981–2000
11%
2001–15
1.9%
2016–21
Mont-CarmelTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Counted by age, 57% of Mont-Carmel’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its one place was designated in 2008.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Québec’s register. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
Questions about Mont-Carmel’s history
How old are the homes in Mont-Carmel?
57% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
How many historic places does Mont-Carmel have on the registers?
The registers list 1 historic place inside Mont-Carmel.
What is the oldest building in Mont-Carmel?
By its record, Chapelle du Lac-de-l'Est, from 1926 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
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.