TopClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1912Socle de la Statue-Équestre-de-Saint-Georges1890 1e AvenuePhoto: SamuelFreli · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Manoir William-Milburn-Pozer · Photo: SamuelFreli · CC BY-SA 3.02historic places on the registers
History of Saint-Georges · Canada’s heritage registers
Saint-Georges: 2 historic places, one with the highest designation
On the list: a municipal citation. Its oldest building on the record is Manoir William-Milburn-Pozer, from 1879. Wikidata gives 1856 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged. Scaled to its population, Saint-Georges’s 0.6 per 10,000 residents beats 75% of Canadian towns.
Historic places
2
0.6 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
1
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
1
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1879
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
14%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Then and today: Saint-Georges in 2 photos and 2 old pictures
Photos show both of the places Saint-Georges’s registers name. The set opens with Socle de la Statue-Équestre-de-Saint-Georges and Manoir William-Milburn-Pozer.
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-Georges before 1950
2 old photographs of the town, from oldest to latest. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
c. 1910
c. 1910Public 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 Saint-Georges’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its page.
The 2, by tier
1 Highest 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 Saint-Georges with the highest designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Saint-Georges: one place
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
LocalMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1879Manoir William-Milburn-Pozer610 avenue de la ChaudièrePhoto: SamuelFreli · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file
Around the town
18 designated places lie within 25 km of Saint-Georges
They are 17 municipal citations and a place classified by Québec. By age, Maison Vital-Roy leads, from 1840, at 25 km. The first one out is Pont Perrault, 8.3 km away in Notre-Dame-des-Pins.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Pont PerraultClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1929 · 8.3 km away, in Notre-Dame-des-Pins |
| Site de la chapelle Saint-Paul, du cimetière et du manoir TaylorCited heritage site (Québec) · 9.6 km away, in Saint-Benjamin |
| Édifice du Sénateur-BolducMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1920 · 13 km away, in Beauceville |
| Église Saint-MartinMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1902–1903 · 18 km away, in Saint-Martin |
| Presbytère de Saint-MartinMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1890 · 18 km away, in Saint-Martin |
| Saint-Victor cemeteryMunicipal citation (Québec) · 19 km away, in Saint-Victor |
| Presbytère de Saint-VictorMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1912 · 19 km away, in Saint-Victor |
| Église Saint-VictorMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1898–1899 · 19 km away, in Saint-Victor |
| Maison Georges-PépinMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1845 · 19 km away, in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce |
| Pont Napoléon-GrondinMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1933 · 20 km away, in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce |
| Maison Deslauriers et laiterieMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1867 · 20 km away, in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce |
| Cimetière de Saint-ÉphremMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1882 · 23 km away, in Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce |
Homes by age
7.5% of Saint-Georges’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
More than half of Saint-Georges’s housing predates 2001. The busiest building years in Saint-Georges were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 31% of today’s homes. Only 14% of Saint-Georges’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
14%
Before 1961
26%
1961–80
31%
1981–2000
22%
2001–15
7.5%
2016–21
Saint-GeorgesTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns its size
Saint-Georges has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 33,200 to 34,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Saint-Georges2
Only Val-d'Or, Sainte-Marie and Whitehorse have more. The middle one has 1. 6 of them have none.
Neighbours
Saint-Georges and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Georges | 33,881 | 2 | 1 | 1879 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins | 1,935 | 1 | 1 | 1929 |
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 1,655 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-René | 1,035 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Côme--Linière | 3,435 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Beauceville | 6,228 | 1 | 0 | 1920 |
| Saint-Benjamin | 1,267 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Saint-Georges in brief
Canada’s heritage lists give Saint-Georges 2 historic places, one with the highest designation, Socle de la Statue-Équestre-de-Saint-Georges among them. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 3 have more historic places. Before 1961: just 14% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. The other figures are unremarkable: people of its past such as Nanette Bordeaux (1911) and François-Xavier Dulac (1841); and its places were designated between 1986 and 1998.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Saint-Georges’s history
Which places in Saint-Georges have the highest designation?
It is Socle de la Statue-Équestre-de-Saint-Georges.
What is the oldest building in Saint-Georges?
By its record, Manoir William-Milburn-Pozer, from 1879 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
How old are the homes in Saint-Georges?
Before 1961: 14% of its homes; 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).