Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Manoir et four à pain Couillard · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes from before 1961 make up 38% of Montmagny’s stock, above the 18% of the typical town. All told the heritage lists hold 6 historic places within the town, and 3 sit in the top tier. Its 5.3 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 95% of Canadian towns. The record has a Recognized Federal Heritage Building, a municipal citation and a heritage railway station.
Of the places pictured in Montmagny, Manoir et four à pain Couillard is the oldest, from 1800. 3 designated places in Montmagny have a photo. Open a place’s page for its old views: 2 places in Montmagny have them.
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.
Set out by date: the oldest views of 2 of its historic places. Tap any picture to see it full screen.
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1927Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
Of the 6 with a date, 4 predate 1867.
April 2, 1966 is the date of Montmagny’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes. By 1881 the place had a station: Montmagny railway station.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
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.
The first was designated in 1961, the latest in 1990. Here that means 2 places classified by Québec and a National Historic Site. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
They date from 1881 (“VIA Rail Station, Montmagny, Quebec”) to 1915. Here that means a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
At the head of the list: Étienne-Paschal Taché House and Maison et laiterie Casault.
Kinds read from each place’s name and the functions its register gives; a building keeps the kind it was built as.
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.
| Church Saint-Pierre-du-SudClassified heritage building (Québec) · 2.9 km outside the town |
| Cemetery of Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-SudCited heritage site (Québec) · 3.2 km outside the town |
Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 9.9% of Montmagny’s, against 15% in the typical town. Montmagny built little from 1981 to 2000: 18% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. New building in Montmagny runs at the usual pace: 4.4% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
At the other end is René Bernatchez, from 1913. Étienne-Paschal Taché House, one of the town’s historic places, recalls Sir Étienne Paschal Taché. Best known is Robert Talbot, with articles in 7 Wikipedia languages. It starts with Félix Têtu, born in 1769. The 20 best known are on the timeline.
Everyone born in Montmagny → Born before 1914, or named by one of the town’s historic places. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 11,300 to 11,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. For 10, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montmagny | 11,326 | 6 | 3 | 1739 |
| Cap-Saint-Ignace | 3,074 | 4 | 3 | 1690 |
| Berthier-sur-Mer | 1,819 | 1 | 1 | 1720 |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud | 1,550 | 2 | 2 | 1763 |
Older stock first: 38% of homes in Montmagny were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 6 historic places, 3 with the highest designation. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population.
3 of the 6 dated places belong to the years before Confederation. Of its people of the past, the best known are Robert Talbot (1893), Edwin Bélanger (1910) and Joseph Marmette (1844). Everything else is close to the norm: the list grew between 1961 and 2008.
Maison Têtu, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1739.
38% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
These: Étienne-Paschal Taché House, Maison et laiterie Casault and Manoir et four à pain Couillard.
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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