Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Roberval Town Hall · Photo: Pascal Normand · CC BY-SA 3.0For its size Roberval is rich ground: 4.1 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 93% of Canadian towns. Of the dated places, Maison Donaldson is the oldest, from 1872. The record has 2 municipal citations.
The first two: Roberval Town Hall and Maison Donaldson. Each of Roberval’s designated places has a photo.
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.
By date: 4 old photographs of the town, with the oldest view of one of its historic places. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
1886
c. 1900
c. 1903
c. 1928
1928Public 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.
Roberval takes its name from Jean-François Roberval. As a municipality, Roberval carries the date September 15, 1883 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
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.
The group holds a National Historic Site and a place classified by Québec. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Maison Donaldson is the earliest, from 1872; the latest dates from 1928. Each one opens its own page.
They were designated between 2009 and 2011. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Ancien presbytère Notre-Dame is the earliest, from 1892; the latest dates from 1925. Each one opens its own page.
The busiest building years in Roberval were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 39% of today’s homes. At 23%, Roberval’s share of pre-1961 homes is above the typical town’s 18%. Roberval built little from 2001 to 2015: 8.4% of its homes, where most towns have 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Best known is Georges-Henri Lévesque, with articles in 4 Wikipedia languages. At 97, Georges-Henri Lévesque outlived the rest, dying in 2000. The line ends with Georges Potvin (1907). It starts with James Stanley Scott, born in 1889.
Everyone born in Roberval → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 9,800 to 9,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. For 13, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roberval | 9,828 | 4 | 2 | 1872 |
| Mashteuiatsh | 2,074 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Prime | 2,808 | 1 | 1 | 1895 |
| Chambord | 1,800 | 6 | 3 | 1676 |
The 2021 Census dates 23% of Roberval’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 4 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, including Roberval Town Hall. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. Georges-Henri Lévesque (1903), Paul-Henri Spence (1906) and James Stanley Scott (1889) lead its people of the past. Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1984 and 2012.
These: Roberval Town Hall and Maison Donaldson.
Maison Donaldson — its record dates it to 1872 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
Before 1961: 23% 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).
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