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Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Anselme’s one place is Croix de la Montagne, a municipal citation (québec) begun in 1930. For every 10,000 residents Saint-Anselme has 2.2, ahead of 87% of Canadian towns.
Pictured: Croix de la Montagne, Saint-Anselme’s only designated place.
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On the open record, Saint-Anselme as a municipality goes back to January 7, 1998, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement. Saint-Anselme and Saint-Anselme gave way to the present municipality in 1998.
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.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
4 places lie within 10 km. They belong to 2 towns, chiefly Sainte-Claire and Saint-Henri. Presbytère de Saint-Henri, 9.8 km off, is the oldest: 1906.
| Maison du Docteur-Joseph-Arthur-Noé-ChabotMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1925 · 8.8 km away, in Sainte-Claire |
| Maison PrévostMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1911 · 8.9 km away, in Sainte-Claire |
| Site patrimonial de l'église et du cimetière de Saint-HenriCited heritage site (Québec) · 9.7 km away, in Saint-Henri |
| Presbytère de Saint-HenriMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1906 · 9.8 km away, in Saint-Henri |
The busiest building years in Saint-Anselme were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 27% of today’s homes. Before 1961: 23% of Saint-Anselme’s homes, against 18% in most towns. 23% of Saint-Anselme’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The longest life was Michel-Thomas Labrecque’s: 83 years, to 1932. Best known is Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme, with articles in 4 Wikipedia languages. Most of them, 3 of 5, came into the world in the years before Confederation. In 1834 came the earliest, Louis-Napoléon Larochelle.
Everyone born in Saint-Anselme → 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 4,500 to 4,600 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Melville. The typical town its size has 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Anselme | 4,534 | 1 | 0 | 1930 |
| Sainte-Hénédine | 1,550 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 3 | 0 | 1911 |
| Saint-Henri | 6,048 | 2 | 0 | 1906 |
| Saint-Gervais | 2,235 | 1 | 1 | 1817 |
| Saint-Isidore | 3,550 | 1 | 1 | 1853 |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse | 1,330 | 0 | 0 | — |
Saint-Anselme’s homes from before 1961 come to 23%, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme (1849), Michel-Thomas Labrecque (1849) and Cyrille Vaillancourt (1892) are the best known of its historic lives. Beyond that, its one place was designated in 2011.
Inside Saint-Anselme: 1 historic place.
Croix de la Montagne — its record dates it to 1930 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
23% predate 1961, where 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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