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2historic places on the registers
History of Saint-Casimir · Canada’s heritage registers
63% of Saint-Casimir’s homes were built before 1961
Saint-Casimir has 3.6 times what the typical town has (18%). On the registers, the town counts 2 historic places. Its oldest building on the record is Vieux couvent de Saint-Casimir, from 1890. Designations here include 2 municipal citations.
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
Saint-Casimir in old pictures
The oldest view of one of its historic places, made before 1950. Tap it to see it full screen.
Public 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.
How it began
Saint-Casimir’s beginnings, from 1836
The record puts Saint-Casimir’s founding in 1836. That makes it 190 years old. Wikidata holds June 21, 2000 as the start of the municipality of Saint-Casimir, a date that can just as well be an incorporation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
The 2, by tier
2 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.
Provincial and local listings
On provincial and local lists in Saint-Casimir: 2 places
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Vieux couvent de Saint-Casimir is the earliest, from 1890; the latest dates from 1947. Each one opens its own page.
Top-ranked heritage near Saint-Casimir: one place within 10 km
The nearest is Centrale hydroélectrique de Saint-Alban, 6.4 km away in Saint-Alban. Count to 10 km and there are 5. They are spread over 3 towns, including Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Saint-Marc-des-Carrières and Saint-Alban.
New homes are rare in Saint-Casimir: 2.2% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Saint-Casimir built little from 1981 to 2000: 11% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 2.9% of Saint-Casimir’s, against 15% in the typical town. Only 20% of Saint-Casimir’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%.
63%
Before 1961
20%
1961–80
11%
1981–2000
2.9%
2001–15
2.2%
2016–21
Saint-CasimirTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The pre-1961 share of Saint-Casimir’s homes is 63%, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 2 historic places. Beyond that, its past has lives on the record such as Alain Grandbois (1900) and Rosaire Chalifour (1902); and every designation dates from 2009.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
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Québec’s register. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
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The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
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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.
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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.
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People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
Questions about Saint-Casimir’s history
How old are the homes in Saint-Casimir?
Before 1961: 63% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Saint-Casimir have on the registers?
2 historic places inside Saint-Casimir, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Saint-Casimir?
Vieux couvent de Saint-Casimir — its record dates it to 1890 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
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.
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