1855 and after: Pointe-à-la-Croix’s milestones
A single date stands for Pointe-à-la-Croix as a municipality on Wikidata, July 1, 1855, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. Before 1970, Pointe-à-la-Croix went by Mann.
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Young House · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0In Pointe-à-la-Croix that place is Young House, a municipal citation (québec), from 1830. The 2021 Census dates 1.6% of its homes to 2016 or later, against 4.1% in most towns.
One picture from before 1950: one old photograph of the town. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.
1895Public 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.
A single date stands for Pointe-à-la-Croix as a municipality on Wikidata, July 1, 1855, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding. Before 1970, Pointe-à-la-Croix went by Mann.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s 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.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
By designation: 4 municipal citations, a National Historic Site and a place classified by Québec. Closest of all is Battle of the Restigouche, in Listuguj, 4.6 km off. Carleton-sur-Mer, Listuguj and Dalhousie hold most of them, among 4 towns.
| Battle of the RestigoucheNational Historic Site · 1760–1761 · 4.6 km away, in Listuguj |
| Busteed HouseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1800 · 5 km away, in Listuguj |
| Inch Arran Point Front Range LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1870–1871 · 24 km away, in Dalhousie |
| Site patrimonial de la Cabane-à-EudoreCited heritage site (Québec) · 42 km away, in Carleton-sur-Mer |
| Church of St. Joseph, CarletonMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1850–1854 · 43 km away, in Carleton-sur-Mer |
| Site du Mont-Saint-JosephCited heritage site (Québec) · 43 km away, in Carleton-sur-Mer |
| Saint-Florence tithe barnMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1916 · 49 km away, in Causapscal |
Homes from before 1961 are 18% of Pointe-à-la-Croix’s housing, about the typical 18%. Over half of the homes in Pointe-à-la-Croix were already standing by 1981. In Pointe-à-la-Croix, 24% of homes date from 1981 to 2000, much as in most towns (23%).
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-à-la-Croix | 1,294 | 1 | 0 | 1830 |
| Campbellton | 7,485 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Listuguj | 1,646 | 2 | 2 | 1760 |
| Atholville | 3,346 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Dalhousie | 1,132 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Balmoral | 1,628 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Eel River Crossing | 1,918 | 0 | 0 | — |
Pointe-à-la-Croix’s homes from before 1961 come to 18%, against 18% in the typical town. There are 1 historic place in all. For the rest, its designation dates from 2011.
Inside Pointe-à-la-Croix: 1 historic place.
Young House, a Municipal citation (Québec), begun in 1830.
Before 1961: 18% of its homes; 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).