Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
![Académie Saint-Barthélemy du comté de Berthier / O. Allard . - [1920]](https://images.townratings.com/ca/town_images/52452055/5226f01c91fd6d19a91d.jpg)
Photo: O. Allard · Public domainSaint-Barthélemy has 2.1 times what the typical town has (18%). Within 25 km of Saint-Barthélemy there are 21 designated places; Magasin général Le Brun, at 6.8 km, is the closest. Saint-Cuthbert, 9 km away, has the nearest place of the highest rank. Of the 8 people born in Saint-Barthélemy before 1914, Louis-Zéphirin Gauthier came first.
4 old photographs of the town, in date order. A tap on any picture opens it with its credit.
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c. 1900Public 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.
Until 1981, Saint-Barthélemy was called Saint-Barthélémi. July 1, 1855 is the date of Saint-Barthélemy’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes.
The nearest historic places to Saint-Barthélemy, out to 25 km, by the first construction date on each record.
17 places within 25 km have a date. Before Confederation: 11. The oldest is Fort Richelieu in Sorel-Tracy, from 1641.
The registers hold 21 within 25 km. Magasin général Le Brun in Maskinongé is the nearest, 6.8 km away. By age, Fort Richelieu leads, from 1641, at 17 km.
| Magasin général Le BrunClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1827 · 6.8 km away, in Maskinongé |
| Maison DoucetClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1765–1794 · 7.3 km away, in Maskinongé |
| Presbytère de Saint-CuthbertClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1874–1876 · 8.1 km away, in Saint-Cuthbert |
| Ancien presbytère de Saint-Joseph-de-MaskinongéClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1811 · 8.9 km away, in Maskinongé |
| Cuthbert ChapelClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1786 · 13 km away, in Berthierville |
| Church of St GenevieveClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1782–1787 · 14 km away, in Berthierville |
| Site patrimonial de Sainte-GenevièveClassified heritage site (Québec) · 14 km away, in Berthierville |
| Ancien monastère des Moniales-Dominicaines-de-BerthiervilleClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1933–1934 · 14 km away, in Berthierville |
| Site patrimonial de l’Ancien-Monastère-des-Moniales-Dominicaines-de-BerthiervilleClassified heritage site (Québec) · 14 km away, in Berthierville |
| Maison Béland-LatourelleMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1925 · 17 km away, in Louiseville |
| Maison Joseph-Louis-Léandre-HamelinClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1898 · 17 km away, in Louiseville |
| Fort RichelieuNational historic site of Canada · 1641 · 17 km away, in Sorel-Tracy |
Few of Saint-Barthélemy’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 11%, the norm 15%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 17% of Saint-Barthélemy’s, against 23% in the typical town. Over half of the homes in Saint-Barthélemy were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The widest known is Joseph Arthur Barrette: 4 Wikipedia editions. It starts with Louis-Zéphirin Gauthier, born in 1842. Joseph-Alfred Désy closes the list, born in 1878. 4 of the 8 were born in the years before Confederation.
Everyone born in Saint-Barthélemy → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2,115 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Cuthbert | 1,865 | 1 | 1 | 1874 |
| Maskinongé | 2,457 | 3 | 3 | 1765 |
| Sainte-Ursule | 1,363 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Norbert | 1,143 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Berthierville | 4,591 | 5 | 5 | 1782 |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 2,298 | 0 | 0 | — |
Housing in Saint-Barthélemy includes 37% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Joseph Arthur Barrette (1875), Louis-Zéphirin Gauthier (1842) and Joseph Caron (1868) lead its people of the past.
Inside Saint-Barthélemy, none so far. At 6.8 km, Magasin général Le Brun in Maskinongé is the nearest, with the top designation.
Before 1961: 37% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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.
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).