TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1938Pont de Saint-Edgaravenue des PontsPhoto: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Pont de Saint-Edgar · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.04historic places on the registers
History of New Richmond · Canada’s heritage registers
Heritage in New Richmond: 4 historic places, 2 of the highest rank
Per resident New Richmond outdoes 98% of Canadian towns, with 10 for every 10,000 people. Of the dated places, Magasin général J.-A.-Gendron is the oldest, from 1890. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from July 1, 1855, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding. Designations here include 2 municipal citations.
Historic places
4
10 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
2
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
2
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1890
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
31%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
See New Richmond today and before 1950: 2 photos, 1 old pictures
The oldest place pictured in New Richmond is Pont de Saint-Edgar, from 1938. Photos show 2 of the places New Richmond’s registers name; the others show their record instead. Of New Richmond’s places with the highest designations, one is photographed.
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.
Through time
New Richmond in old pictures
The past in one picture: one old photograph of the town. Tap it to see it full screen.
c. 1910Public 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.
The map
Where New Richmond’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 4, by tier
2 Highest designations2 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.
Highest designations
2 places in New Richmond with the highest designation
The oldest, Magasin général J.-A.-Gendron, dates from 1890; the newest from 1938. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Designations came from 1981 to 2009. Each one opens its own page.
Classified heritage building (Québec) · 1890–1917Magasin général J.-A.-Gendron347 boulevard Perron Ouest
Provincial and local listings
On provincial and local lists in New Richmond: 2 places
They were designated between 2002 and 2006. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Gaspesian British Heritage Village and Site du patrimoine de New Richmond lead the list. Each one opens its own page.
LocalCited heritage site (Québec)Site du patrimoine de New Richmondrue de DartmouthPhoto: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Cited heritage site (Québec)Gaspesian British Heritage Village351 boulevard Perron Ouest
Homes by age
New Richmond keeps more old homes than most towns: 31% from before 1961, against 18%
More of New Richmond’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 36%. New building has been slow in New Richmond: 2.6% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 9.9% of New Richmond’s, against 15% in the typical town.
31%
Before 1961
36%
1961–80
20%
1981–2000
9.9%
2001–15
2.6%
2016–21
New RichmondTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
New Richmond has the 1st most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,900 to 4,000 residents, by places on the registers.
New Richmond4
Their median is 0. 13 of them have none.
Neighbours
New Richmond and its neighbours
In brief
New Richmond in brief
New Richmond’s homes from before 1961 come to 31%, against 18% in the typical town. There are 4 historic places in all, 2 with the highest designation. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1981 and 2009.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- 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.
- 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. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
Questions about New Richmond’s history
Which places in New Richmond have the highest designation?
They are Magasin général J.-A.-Gendron and Pont de Saint-Edgar.
How old are the homes in New Richmond?
31% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
What is the oldest building in New Richmond?
By its record, Magasin général J.-A.-Gendron, from 1890 (Classified heritage building (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.
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).