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Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0In Saint-Gervais that place is Chapelle de procession de Saint-Gervais, a classified heritage building (québec), from 1817. The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 30%.
Chapelle de procession de Saint-Gervais is the single place Saint-Gervais’s registers name, and here it is.
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Before 1991, Saint-Gervais went by Saint-Gervais-et-Potrais. July 1, 1855 is the date of Saint-Gervais’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
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In Québec the record is fuller than elsewhere: beside Parks Canada’s designations, the province’s register lists its classements and every municipal citation.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Église Saint-Charles-Borromée, 7.7 km off, is the oldest: 1827. Nearest comes Croix de chemin, 6.1 km off, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse. Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse and Saint-Anselme hold most of them, among 2 towns.
| Croix de cheminMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1969 · 6.1 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Calvaire de Saint-Charles-de-BellechasseMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1950 · 7.5 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Chapelle de la Sainte-ViergeMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1883 · 7.6 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Église Saint-Charles-BorroméeMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1827–1829 · 7.7 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Hôtel de ville de Saint-Charles-de-BellechasseMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1840 · 7.8 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Ancien couvent de Saint-Charles-de-BellechasseMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1886 · 7.8 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Cimetière Saint-Charles-BorroméeMunicipal citation (Québec) · 7.8 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Chapelle Sainte-AnneMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1887–1890 · 8 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Croix de cheminMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1962 · 8.6 km away, in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse |
| Croix de la MontagneMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1930 · 9.5 km away, in Saint-Anselme |
More than half of Saint-Gervais’s housing predates 1981. 21% of Saint-Gervais’s homes date from 2001 to 2015, well above the typical 15%. From 2016 to 2021 Saint-Gervais added 4% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Longest lived was Nicodème Audet, 83 years in all (1905). Fame, by Wikipedia: Edmond Fortier first, in 5 languages. Counting only births before 1914, there are 6.
Everyone born in Saint-Gervais → 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-Gervais | 2,235 | 1 | 1 | 1817 |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | 2,739 | 9 | 0 | 1827 |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse | 1,330 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Anselme | 4,534 | 1 | 0 | 1930 |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 3 | 0 | 1911 |
| Saint-Raphaël | 2,488 | 3 | 0 | 1849 |
| Saint-Henri | 6,048 | 2 | 0 | 1906 |
Counted by age, 30% of Saint-Gervais’s homes predate 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Chapelle de procession de Saint-Gervais. Among the lives from its past: Edmond Fortier (1849), Guillaume Amyot (1843) and Dominique-Ceslas Gonthier (1853). The rest is about typical: its designation dates from 1981.
Chapelle de procession de Saint-Gervais.
30% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
By its record, Chapelle de procession de Saint-Gervais, from 1817 (Classified heritage building (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.
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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