Back to 1997: Neuville’s first record
Neuville and Pointe-aux-Trembles gave way to the present municipality in 1997. Wikidata gives the municipality of Neuville the date January 2, 1997, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Loriot · Photo: Huguette Dion · CC BY-SA 3.0Inside Neuville the registers count 11 historic places; 10 are top designations. Per resident it outdoes 99% of Canadian towns, with 24 for every 10,000 people. On the list: a municipal citation.
Photos show every place Neuville’s registers name. Open a place’s page for its old views: 4 places in Neuville have them. Begin with Maison Loriot, then Manoir Édouard-Larue.
Manoir Édouard-Larue
Maison Larue
Maison Darveau
Maison Soulard
Chœur de l'Église-Saint-François-de-Sales+6See all photosPhotos 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.
On one line by date: the oldest views of 4 of its historic places. Scroll the strip and tap a picture to open it.
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c. 1920Public 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.
10 of the 11 dated places were built before Confederation.
Neuville and Pointe-aux-Trembles gave way to the present municipality in 1997. Wikidata gives the municipality of Neuville the date January 2, 1997, which can mark a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s 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.
The oldest, Maison Soulard, dates from 1759; the newest from 1854. Here that means 9 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.
The first by rank are Sainte Anne Processional Chapel and Maison Soulard. 3 places make churches and religious buildings the second group.
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.
The places by the year of their designation.
It began with Maison Loriot in 1964. In 1976 alone, 5 were designated. Nothing has been added since 2011.
Neuville’s largest group of homes, 25%, went up from 2001 to 2015. 20% of Neuville’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. Count back from today and half of Neuville’s homes are older than 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Best known is François-Réal Angers, with articles in 7 Wikipedia languages. Marie-Elmina Anger closes the list, born in 1844. Joseph-Bernard Planté comes first, born in 1768. Of them all, Zéphirin Paquet lived longest: 87 years, until 1905.




Everyone born in Neuville → 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 4,500 to 4,600 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 10 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neuville | 4,579 | 11 | 10 | 1759 |
| Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly | 1,747 | 3 | 1 | 1786 |
| Pont-Rouge | 11,339 | 3 | 2 | 1870 |
| Donnacona | 7,785 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Apollinaire | 9,218 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures | 20,864 | 3 | 2 | 1786 |
| Sainte-Croix | 2,612 | 4 | 3 | 1829 |
The 2021 Census dates 20% of Neuville’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 11 historic places, 10 with the highest designation, with Sainte Anne Processional Chapel first. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. The densest spot is around Chœur de l'Église-Saint-François-de-Sales: 5 of its places of the highest designation within 400 m.
houses make up 73% of the list. the years before Confederation account for 9 of the 11 dated places. François-Réal Angers (1812), Antoine Polette (1807) and Joseph-Bernard Planté (1768) lead its people of the past.
Maison Soulard (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1759.
Sainte Anne Processional Chapel, Maison Soulard, Maison Denis, Chœur de l'Église-Saint-François-de-Sales, Maison Loriot and Maison Darveau, and 4 more.
20% predate 1961, where 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).