Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Site de pêche Déry · Photo: Sylvainbrousseau · CC BY-SA 3.0Designations here include a municipal citation. Its oldest building on the record is Moulin Marcoux, from 1870. Measured against its size, Pont-Rouge’s 2.6 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 89% of Canadian towns.
Among them: Site de pêche Déry and Moulin Marcoux. Every place on Pont-Rouge’s registers has a photo here.
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.
Pont-Rouge and Sainte-Jeanne-de-Pont-Rouge came before the present municipality. The municipality of Pont-Rouge has the date January 3, 1996 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open 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.
Start with Moulin Marcoux and Site de pêche Déry. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Their designations span 1984 to 2012. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
Count back from today and half of Pont-Rouge’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 28% of Pont-Rouge’s, against 15% in the typical town. Like the typical town (18%), Pont-Rouge has 16% of its homes from before 1961.
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 11,300 to 11,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: La Tuque, Montmagny and Milton-Parc. The middle one has 0. For 10, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pont-Rouge | 11,339 | 3 | 2 | 1870 |
| Donnacona | 7,785 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Basile | 2,918 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Neuville | 4,579 | 11 | 10 | 1759 |
| Cap-Santé | 3,885 | 4 | 4 | 1720 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier | 9,830 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly | 1,747 | 3 | 1 | 1786 |
Pont-Rouge holds 3 historic places on Canada’s registers, 2 with the highest designation. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 3 have more historic places. Its homes are mostly newer: 16% were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Everything else is close to the norm: its past has one life on the record, Joseph Marceau (1879); and its places were designated between 1984 and 2012.
These: Moulin Marcoux and Site de pêche Déry.
Moulin Marcoux (Classified heritage building (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1870.
16% 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).
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