Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Château Landry · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Mont-Joli’s share is 2.3 times the typical 18%. All told the heritage lists hold 3 historic places within the town, and one sits in the top tier. Only a few towns match it per resident: 4.6 for every 10,000, ahead of 94% of Canadian towns. Designations here include a heritage railway station and a municipal citation.
The photos cover every place on Mont-Joli’s registers. Up first are Rivière-Blanche railway station and Château Landry. Of the places pictured in Mont-Joli, Château Landry is the oldest, from 1907.
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 first railway station on record, Mont-Joli railway station, opened in 1913. As a municipality, Mont-Joli carries the date October 30, 1880 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| East watchtowerMunicipal citation (Québec) · 600 m outside the town |
| Ancien presbytère de Sainte-FlavieMunicipal citation (Québec) · 900 m outside the town |
| Site du patrimoine Flavie-DrapeauCited heritage site (Québec) · 1 km outside the town |
| Estevan LodgeClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1.8 km outside the town |
| Jardins de MétisClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1.9 km outside the town |
36% of Mont-Joli’s homes date from 1961 to 1980, well above the typical 27%. Mont-Joli built little from 2001 to 2015: 4.6% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Only 18% of Mont-Joli’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The earliest is Roméo Gagné, born in 1905. Henri Labrie reached 95, the longest life here, ending in 2006. At the other end is Zenon Saint-Laurent, from 1912.
Everyone born in Mont-Joli → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 6,500 to 6,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Kings County, Subdivision D has more. Their median is 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Joli | 6,492 | 3 | 1 | 1907 |
| Price | 1,701 | 1 | 0 | 1891 |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici | 1,005 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Luce | 2,808 | 2 | 1 | 1838 |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski | 1,239 | 0 | 0 | — |
Mont-Joli’s homes from before 1961 come to 40%, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, including Rivière-Blanche railway station. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. Among the lives from its past: Roméo Gagné (1905), Léopold Lamontagne (1910) and Henri Labrie (1911). Everything else is close to the norm: the designations ran from 1994 to 2012.
40% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Rivière-Blanche railway station.
Château Landry, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1907.
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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