Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Atelier et maison Rodolphe-Duguay · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY 3.0On the list: a municipal citation. Per resident Nicolet outdoes 91% of Canadian towns, with 3.4 for every 10,000 people. The oldest dated place, Séminaire de Nicolet, goes back to 1827.
The photos cover every place on Nicolet’s registers. Look out for Atelier et maison Rodolphe-Duguay and Séminaire de Nicolet.
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.
In order of date: one old photograph of the town, then the oldest view of one of its historic places. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
c. 1910
1947Public 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.
In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Nicolet dates from December 27, 2000; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. Nicolet is named after Jean Nicolet.
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.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. They date from 1827 (Séminaire de Nicolet) to 1854. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Before 1961: 19% of Nicolet’s homes, near the usual 18%. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 34% of Nicolet’s homes. Over half of the homes in Nicolet were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 20 births here before 1914. Fame, by Wikipedia: Joseph Norbert Provencher first, in 6 languages. At 94, Arthur Rousseau outlived the rest, dying in 1994. 10 of the 20 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Nicolet → 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 8,700 to 8,800 residents, by places on the registers.
The typical town its size has 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolet | 8,737 | 3 | 2 | 1827 |
| Trois-Rivières | 149,934 | 29 | 21 | 1634 |
| Bécancour | 14,943 | 3 | 3 | 1774 |
| Baie-du-Febvre | 1,023 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Yamachiche | 2,801 | 3 | 3 | 1850 |
In Nicolet, 19% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 3 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, with Séminaire de Nicolet first. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Joseph Norbert Provencher (1787), Joseph-Octave Beaubien (1824) and Juliette Béliveau (1889) are the best known of its historic lives. For the rest, all its places were designated in 2012.
They are Séminaire de Nicolet and Atelier et maison Rodolphe-Duguay.
Séminaire de Nicolet, a Classified heritage building (Québec), begun in 1827.
19% 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). 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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