Église Saint-Phillip · Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
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History of Port-Daniel--Gascons · Canada’s heritage registers
Before 1961: 42% of the homes in Port-Daniel--Gascons
Port-Daniel--Gascons has 2.4 times what the typical town has (18%). All told, the heritage lists hold 4 historic places within the town. Among the places are 3 municipal citations and a heritage railway station. Of the dated places, Canadian National Railways/VIA Rail Station, Port-Daniel, Quebec is the oldest, from 1908.
Port-Daniel--Gascons now and then, in 3 photos and 2 old views
The photos cover 3 of Port-Daniel--Gascons’s designated places; the rest keep their register record. Among them: Église Saint-Phillip and “Canadian National Railways/VIA Rail Station, Port-Daniel, Quebec”. 3 different photographers shared them on Wikimedia Commons.
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.
Through time
Looking back at Port-Daniel--Gascons
In order of date: 2 old photographs of the town. Scroll the strip and tap a picture to open it.
1890190019101920193019401950Confederation to 1900Boom yearsThe wars and betweenAfter the war
Public 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.
How it began
Milestones of Port-Daniel--Gascons since 1908
On the open record, Port-Daniel--Gascons as a municipality goes back to January 17, 2001, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Its oldest recorded station, Port-Daniel railway station, dates from 1908. Gascons and Port-Daniel gave way to the present municipality in 2001.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designationsProvincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 4, by tier
1 Other federal designations3 Provincial and local listings
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.
Other federal designations
One more federal designation in Port-Daniel--Gascons
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
The oldest, Église Saint-Phillip, dates from 1912; the newest from 1913. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Designations came from 1987 to 2000. Each one opens its own page.
Port-Daniel--Gascons added few homes from 2016 to 2021: 3.2%, where most towns have 4.1%
More than half of Port-Daniel--Gascons’s housing predates 1981. Few of Port-Daniel--Gascons’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 7.9%, the norm 15%. 29% of Port-Daniel--Gascons’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, close to the typical town’s 27%.
42%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
19%
1981–2000
7.9%
2001–15
3.2%
2016–21
Port-Daniel--GasconsTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
In brief
Port-Daniel--Gascons in brief
Older stock first: 42% of homes in Port-Daniel--Gascons were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 4 historic places. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1987 and 2000.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
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Québec’s register. Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel records the province’s classements and declarations and every municipal citation, each with a description and a point.
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The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
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Map points. Federal places get their map points from Wikidata, since Parks Canada’s files carry none; they are as mapped there.
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The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
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Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
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People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
Questions about Port-Daniel--Gascons’s history
How old are the homes in Port-Daniel--Gascons?
42% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Port-Daniel--Gascons have on the registers?
4 historic places inside Port-Daniel--Gascons, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Port-Daniel--Gascons?
By its record, Canadian National Railways/VIA Rail Station, Port-Daniel, Quebec, from 1908 (Heritage Railway Station).
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.
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