TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1761–1789Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf100 1e AvenuePhoto: Audreyannbrousseau · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf · Photo: Audreyannbrousseau · CC BY-SA 3.03historic places on the registers
History of Portneuf · Canada’s heritage registers
Portneuf keeps a building from 1761: Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf
Before 1961: 42% of Portneuf’s homes, where most towns have 18%. All told the heritage lists hold 3 historic places within the town, and 2 sit in the top tier. Per resident it outdoes 97% of Canadian towns, with 8.8 for every 10,000 people. The record has a municipal citation.
Historic places
3
8.8 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
2
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
1
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1761
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
42%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Photos of all 2 top-tier places in Portneuf
The first two: Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf and Calvaire de Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs. All of Portneuf’s designated places are pictured.
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.
The map
Where Portneuf’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 3, by tier
2 Highest designations1 Provincial and local listings
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
2 places in Portneuf with the highest designation
They were designated between 1974 and 2012. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf is the earliest, from 1761; the latest dates from 1885. Each one opens its own page.
TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1885Calvaire de Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleursrue Notre-DamePhoto: Audreyannbrousseau · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Provincial and local listings
One local listing in Portneuf
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1884Église Saint-John-the-Evangelist de Portneuf92 1e AvenuePhoto: Sylvainbrousseau · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Homes by age
42% of Portneuf’s homes were built before 1961
From 2016 to 2021 Portneuf added 4.7% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. Few of Portneuf’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 16%, the norm 23%. Half of the homes standing in Portneuf today were built before 1981.
42%
Before 1961
23%
1961–80
16%
1981–2000
14%
2001–15
4.7%
2016–21
PortneufTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Portneuf has the most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,400 to 3,400 residents, by places on the registers.
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The typical town its size has 0. For 11, the registers list nothing.
Neighbours
Portneuf and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portneuf | 3,410 | 3 | 2 | 1761 |
| Saint-Basile | 2,918 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Cap-Santé | 3,885 | 4 | 4 | 1720 |
| Deschambault-Grondines | 2,251 | 16 | 10 | 1648 |
| Donnacona | 7,785 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières | 2,961 | 2 | 0 | 1932 |
| Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière | 1,295 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Portneuf in brief
In Portneuf, 42% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 3 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf among them. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Arthur Delisle (1859) is its person of the past on the record; and the designations ran from 1974 to 2012.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
- The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- 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. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
Questions about Portneuf’s history
What is the oldest building in Portneuf?
Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf — its record dates it to 1761 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
How old are the homes in Portneuf?
Before 1961: 42% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
Which places in Portneuf have the highest designation?
These: Manoir de la Baronnie-de-Portneuf and Calvaire de Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs.
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).