TopClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1923–1924Site patrimonial de la Maison-Dumulon191 avenue du LacPhoto: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Site patrimonial de la Maison-Dumulon · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.03historic places on the registers
History of Rouyn-Noranda · Canada’s heritage registers
One top designation among Rouyn-Noranda’s 3 historic places
The list takes in a municipal citation and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Site patrimonial de la Maison-Dumulon, begun in 1923, is the oldest by its record. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from 1926, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding. Per resident Rouyn-Noranda has more than 77% of Canadian towns: 0.7 for every 10,000 people.
Historic places
3
0.7 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Other federal designations
1
Recognized buildings, railway stations, lighthouses
Provincial and local listings
1
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1923
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
31%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
See Rouyn-Noranda today and before 1950: 3 photos, 5 old pictures
Each of Rouyn-Noranda’s designated places has a photo. Begin with Site patrimonial de la Maison-Dumulon, then Federal Building.
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
Rouyn-Noranda through the years, 1925–1937
On one line by date: 4 old photographs of the town and the oldest view of one of its historic places. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.
c. 1925
c. 1930
1930
1932
1937Public 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.
The map
Where Rouyn-Noranda’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsOther federal designationsProvincial and local listings
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 3, by tier
1 Highest designations1 Other federal designations1 Provincial and local listings
Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
One place in Rouyn-Noranda with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Other federal designations
One other place Canada recognizes in Rouyn-Noranda
Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
FedRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1937Federal Building97, rue Perrault estPhoto: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Rouyn-Noranda: one place
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1954–1955Église Saint-Georgesrue Taschereau OuestPhoto: Richard Aubry · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Homes by age
31% of Rouyn-Noranda’s homes are older than 1961, against a usual 18%
Few of Rouyn-Noranda’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 10%, the norm 15%. New building in Rouyn-Noranda runs at the usual pace: 3.7% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%. Count back from today and half of Rouyn-Noranda’s homes are older than 1981.
31%
Before 1961
31%
1961–80
25%
1981–2000
10%
2001–15
3.7%
2016–21
Rouyn-NorandaTypical 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
Rouyn-Noranda in brief
Housing in Rouyn-Noranda includes 31% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Site patrimonial de la Maison-Dumulon heads them. Everything else is close to the norm: it has 3 historic places, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and the designations ran from 1978 to 1992.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
Questions about Rouyn-Noranda’s history
Which places in Rouyn-Noranda have the highest designation?
Site patrimonial de la Maison-Dumulon.
How old are the homes in Rouyn-Noranda?
The 2021 Census dates 31% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
What is the oldest building in Rouyn-Noranda?
Site patrimonial de la Maison-Dumulon (Classified heritage site (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1923.
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).