Canadian Pacific Railway Station, L'Annonciation, Quebec · Photo: Capbat · CC BY 3.0
1historic place on the registers
History of Rivière-Rouge · Canada’s heritage registers
Canada’s registers list 1 historic place in Rivière-Rouge
Rivière-Rouge’s entry is Canadian Pacific Railway Station, L'Annonciation, Quebec (1903), a heritage railway station. Measured against its size, Rivière-Rouge’s 2 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 86% of Canadian towns.
Here in time order: one old photograph of the town, along with the oldest view of one of its historic places. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.
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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
Rivière-Rouge’s record begins in 2002
Rivière-Rouge is named after Rivière Rouge, watercourse in Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Quebec, Canada. In 2002 the municipality took over from L'Annonciation, La Macaza and Marchand. A single date stands for Rivière-Rouge as a municipality on Wikidata, December 18, 2002, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Other federal designations
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 1, by tier
1 Other federal designations
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.
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Rivière-Rouge
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
Rivière-Rouge’s area holds 3 top-tier places within 50 km
By age, Maison Alix-Bail leads, from 1889, at 48 km. Among them are 4 municipal citations, 3 places classified by Québec and a heritage railway station. Count to 50 km and there are 8.
The 8 nearest, within 50 km
Chapel of St. BernardMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1941–1942 · 35 km away, in Mont-Tremblant
Maison Alix-BailClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1889 · 48 km away, in Mont-Laurier
Homes by age
Rivière-Rouge built the most from 1961 to 1980, 37% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Rivière-Rouge’s homes are older than 1981. Like the typical town (18%), Rivière-Rouge has 20% of its homes from before 1961. From 2016 to 2021 Rivière-Rouge added 5.2% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%.
20%
Before 1961
37%
1961–80
24%
1981–2000
14%
2001–15
5.2%
2016–21
Rivière-RougeTypical 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
Rivière-Rouge has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 4,800 to 4,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Before 1961: 20% of Rivière-Rouge’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 1 historic place. Just one town of its size, out of 16, has more historic places. The rest is about typical: one person of its past, Henri Drouin (1911); and its one place was designated in 1991.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
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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.
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The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
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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. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
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The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
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Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.
Questions about Rivière-Rouge’s history
How many historic places does Rivière-Rouge have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Rivière-Rouge, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Rivière-Rouge?
Canadian Pacific Railway Station, L'Annonciation, Quebec (Heritage Railway Station): the first construction date on its record is 1903.
How old are the homes in Rivière-Rouge?
20% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · 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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