Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Lighthouse · Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0For Percé, that is 2.5 times the typical town’s share, 18%. On the registers the town counts 4 historic places, one at the top. For its size this is rich ground: 13 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 99% of Canadian towns. Maison Le Page, begun in 1843, is the oldest by its record.
By date: 4 old photographs of the town, with the oldest view of one of its historic places. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
1866
c. 1882
c. 1920
c. 1930
1940Public 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.
5 former municipalities gave way to the present municipality in 1971. January 1, 1971 is the date of Percé’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its 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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Designations came from 2007 to 2009. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They include Maison Le Page and Magasin général Robin de Barachois. Each one opens its own page.
Percé built little from 1981 to 2000: 17% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Few of Percé’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 6.8%, the norm 15%. More than half of Percé’s housing predates 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Alexandre Chouinard reached 90, the longest life here, ending in 1981. Best known is Edmund James Flynn, with articles in 8 Wikipedia languages. The earliest is Edmund James Flynn, born in 1847. At the other end is Alexandre Chouinard, from 1891.
Everyone born in Percé → 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 3,100 to 3,200 residents, by places on the registers.
The middle one has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percé | 3,137 | 4 | 1 | 1843 |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé | 1,009 | 0 | 0 | — |
Before 1961: 44% of Percé’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 4 historic places, one with the highest designation, Percé Heritage Site among them. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Edmund James Flynn (1847), William Le Boutillier Fauvel (1850) and Alexandre Chouinard (1891) are the town’s people of the past on the record. Everything else is close to the norm: the list grew between 1973 and 2009.
44% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Percé Heritage Site.
By its record, Maison Le Page, from 1843 (Municipal citation (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).
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