Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Banc de Pêche de Paspébiac · Photo: Alcide55 G.Bouchard ... ‹(•¿•)› · CC BY-SA 3.0Paspébiac has kept more old homes than most towns: 32% were built before 1961, against 18%. The registers put 3 historic places inside its boundary, one of them of the highest rank. Only a few towns match it per resident: 9.6 for every 10,000, ahead of 98% of Canadian towns. Among the places are 2 municipal citations.
One old photograph of the town and the oldest view of one of its historic places, in date order. Each dot on the line is a picture; tap one to open it full screen.
c. 1900
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 municipality of Paspébiac has the date February 1, 1877 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation. A reorganization in 1877 folded in Cox.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
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. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They date from 1929 (Presbytère de Paspébiac) to 1940. Each one opens its own page.
Only 15% of Paspébiac’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, less than the typical town’s 23%. New building has been slow in Paspébiac: 2.8% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. Paspébiac built little from 2001 to 2015: 8.2% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 3,100 to 3,200 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Percé. Their median is 0. 11 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paspébiac | 3,132 | 3 | 1 | 1783 |
| New Carlisle | 1,331 | 5 | 1 | 1838 |
| Bonaventure | 2,719 | 1 | 0 | — |
Counted by age, 32% of Paspébiac’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 3 historic places, one with the highest designation, led by Banc de Pêche de Paspébiac. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. For the rest, the list grew between 1973 and 2008.
By its record, Banc de Pêche de Paspébiac, from 1783 (National Historic Site).
Just one: Banc de Pêche de Paspébiac.
32% 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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