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History of Nantes · Canada’s heritage registers

Once Whitton: Nantes took its name in 1957

Église Sainte-Agnès de Lac-Mégantic, 5 km from Nantes, heads a list of 9 historic places within 25 km. The closest top-tier heritage is in Westbury, 56 km from here. Just beyond the boundary, the registers place 2 more.

2just outside

Historic places within 25 km

0 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

5 km

Église Sainte-Agnès de Lac-Mégantic

Homes built before 1961

25%

typical town: 18%

How it began

Back to 1874: Nantes’s first record

Whitton gave way to the present municipality in 1874. For the municipality of Nantes itself, Wikidata records January 1, 1874, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger. Until 1957, Nantes was called Whitton.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The age of the area

The 25 km around Nantes keep buildings from as early as 1868

No place near Nantes is close: these lie up to 25 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.

British North America 1760–18660

After Confederation 1867–19137

Wars and Depression 1914–19451

Since 1946 1946 on0

Dated places within 25 km: 8. Résidence Bernardin-Therrien, in Lac-Drolet, is the oldest (1868).

Around the town

The registers find 9 places within 25 km of Nantes

Oldest of them is Résidence Bernardin-Therrien (1868), 18 km off. They are 8 municipal citations and a heritage railway station. The nearest is Église Sainte-Agnès de Lac-Mégantic, 5 km away in Lac-Mégantic.

The 9 nearest, within 25 km

Église Sainte-Agnès de Lac-MéganticMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1911–1913 · 5 km away, in Lac-Mégantic

Édifice Eastern-Townships-BankMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1890–1898 · 5.4 km away, in Lac-Mégantic

Canadian American - Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Lac-Mégantic, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1926–1928 · 5.5 km away, in Lac-Mégantic

Site patrimonial de l'Église-Anglicane-Saint-John-et-du-Cimetière-Mount Pleasant UnionCited heritage site (Québec) · 14 km away, in Frontenac

Presbytère de Saint-SamuelMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1912 · 15 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Église Saint-Samuel de Lac-DroletMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1898–1899 · 15 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Maison René-RobertMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1887 · 15 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Vieux couvent, Lac-DroletMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1906 · 15 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Résidence Bernardin-TherrienMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1868 · 18 km away, in Lac-Drolet

Just outside Nantes: 2

Cimetière GislaCited heritage site (Québec) · 3.6 km outside the town

Parc MorrisonCited heritage site (Québec) · 4.8 km outside the town

Homes by age

Only 2.5% of Nantes’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)

More of Nantes’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000 than in any other period: 34%. Before 1961: 25% of Nantes’s homes, against 18% in most towns. Half of the homes standing in Nantes today were built before 1981.

25%

Before 1961

26%

1961–80

34%

1981–2000

14%

2001–15

2.5%

2016–21

NantesTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Nantes and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Oldest
Nantes	1,412	0	—
Lac-Mégantic	5,947	3	1890
Frontenac	1,855	1	—
Lac-Drolet	1,066	5	1868

In brief

Nantes in brief

Counted by age, 25% of Nantes’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

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.
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.
The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
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.
The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.

Questions about Nantes’s history

How many historic places does Nantes have on the registers?

The registers have nothing inside Nantes; Église Sainte-Agnès de Lac-Mégantic, in Lac-Mégantic, is 5 km away.

How old are the homes in Nantes?

25% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).

Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · 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).