Presbytère du Coeur-Très-Pur-de-Marie · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0

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History of Plaisance · Canada’s heritage registers

Plaisance: 6 historic places on Canada’s heritage registers

In Plaisance the earliest construction date, 1901, belongs to Church of the Purest Heart of Mary, Plaisance. The record has 6 municipal citations.

6photos 1901oldest building

Historic places

Highest designations

National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements

Provincial and local listings

municipal citations on Québec’s register

Oldest building

1901

the first construction date on its record

Homes built before 1961

21%

typical town: 18%

In pictures

Look around Plaisance: 6 photos

Two worth a look first: Presbytère du Coeur-Très-Pur-de-Marie and Cimetière de Plaisance. All of Plaisance’s designated places are pictured.

Cimetière de Plaisance

Croix de chemin de la côte des Cascades

Church of the Purest Heart of Mary, Plaisance

Croix de chemin de la côte Saint-François

Croix de chemin à Plaisance+1See all photos

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.

How it began

1900 and after: Plaisance’s milestones

Coeur-très-pur de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie-de-Plaisance was the name of Plaisance until 1931. A single date stands for Plaisance as a municipality on Wikidata, October 31, 1900, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where Plaisance’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

Provincial and local listings

Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.

The 6, by tier

6 Provincial and local listings

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.

Provincial and local listings

6 local listings in Plaisance

Designations came from 1992 to 2013. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The oldest, “Church of the Purest Heart of Mary, Plaisance”, dates from 1901; the newest from 1940. Each one opens its own page.

Municipal citation (Québec) · 1901Church of the Purest Heart of Mary, Plaisancerue PrincipalePhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Municipal citation (Québec) · 1901Presbytère du Coeur-Très-Pur-de-Marie281 rue PrincipalePhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Municipal citation (Québec) · 1940Croix de chemin de la côte Saint-Françoisrue Principale¤ montée Saint-FrançoisPhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Municipal citation (Québec)Croix de chemin de la côte des Cascadeschemin des CascadesPhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Municipal citation (Québec)Croix de chemin à Plaisancemontée ChartrandPhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Cited heritage site (Québec)Cimetière de Plaisance290 rue PrincipalePhoto: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Homes by age

Plaisance’s building boom came from 1961 to 1980: 33% of its homes

From 2016 on, Plaisance built only 3% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%. 21% of Plaisance’s homes predate 1961, close to the typical town’s 18%. More than half of Plaisance’s housing predates 1981.

21%

Before 1961

33%

1961–80

28%

1981–2000

16%

2001–15

2016–21

PlaisanceTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Plaisance and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Oldest
Plaisance	1,191	6	1901
Papineauville	2,332	10	1862
Thurso	3,439	0	—
Wendover	10,896	0	—
Saint-André-Avellin	3,862	2	1852
Rockland	30,375	0	—
Lochaber-Partie-Ouest	1,016	0	—

In brief

Plaisance in brief

Plaisance’s homes from before 1961 come to 21%, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 6 historic places. Beyond that, Benoît Chabot (1911) is its person of the past on the record; and its places were designated between 1992 and 2013.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
Québec’s register. In Québec the ministry of culture publishes its register openly: provincial classements, declared sites and the municipalities’ citations all appear, with their descriptions.
People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.

Questions about Plaisance’s history

How many historic places does Plaisance have on the registers?

6 historic places in Plaisance, from Canada’s heritage registers.

What is the oldest building in Plaisance?

By its record, Church of the Purest Heart of Mary, Plaisance, from 1901 (Municipal citation (Québec)).

How old are the homes in Plaisance?

21% 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).