History of Saint-Bonaventure · Canada’s heritage registers
An older town: 36% of Saint-Bonaventure’s homes predate 1961
Most towns have 18%, so Saint-Bonaventure has 2.1 times as much. Ancien presbytère de Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, 7.1 km from Saint-Bonaventure, heads a list of 30 historic places within 25 km. For the highest designations, the closest town is Pierreville, 17 km off.
Historic places within 25 km
30
4 of the highest designation
Nearest historic place
7.1 km
Ancien presbytère de Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham
Homes built before 1961
36%
typical town: 18%
How it began
Milestones of Saint-Bonaventure since 1867
Upton gave way to the present municipality in 1867. The date Wikidata keeps for Saint-Bonaventure is January 1, 1867; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open. Until 1969, Saint-Bonaventure was called St. Bonaventure.
From 1812 on: the dated places within 25 km of Saint-Bonaventure
Places as far as 25 km from Saint-Bonaventure, not in it, dated by the first construction year on their records.
British North America 1760–18665
After Confederation 1867–191313
Wars and Depression 1914–194511
Since 1946 1946 on0
Maison Joseph-Courchesne, in Saint-François-du-Lac, goes back furthest, to 1812. Dated places within 25 km: 29. 5 go back before 1867.
Around the town
30 designated places lie within 25 km of Saint-Bonaventure
Among them are 26 municipal citations and 4 places classified by Québec. Of 4 top designations nearby, Maison Trent is the closest, at 16 km. They are spread over 6 towns, including Drummondville, Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover and Saint-François-du-Lac.
Only 2.3% of Saint-Bonaventure’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Saint-Bonaventure’s largest group of homes, 44%, went up from 1961 to 1980. Only 7% of Saint-Bonaventure’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. Few of Saint-Bonaventure’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 13%, the norm 23%.
36%
Before 1961
44%
1961–80
13%
1981–2000
7%
2001–15
2.3%
2016–21
Saint-BonaventureTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Housing in Saint-Bonaventure includes 36% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
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Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
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People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
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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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
Questions about Saint-Bonaventure’s history
How many historic places does Saint-Bonaventure have on the registers?
The registers have nothing inside Saint-Bonaventure; Ancien presbytère de Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, in Saint-Guillaume, is 7.1 km away.
How old are the homes in Saint-Bonaventure?
Before 1961: 36% 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.