Hôtel de ville de Saint-Jean-Baptiste · Photo: Challwa · CC BY-SA 4.0
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History of Saint-Jean-Baptiste · Canada’s heritage registers
History in Saint-Jean-Baptiste goes back to 1797: Hôtel de ville de Saint-Jean-Baptiste
The lists give Saint-Jean-Baptiste 2 historic places, one in the top tier. Scaled to its population the record is long: 6 per 10,000 residents, more than 96% of Canadian towns. Designations here include a municipal citation.
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
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municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1797
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
20%
typical town: 18%
In pictures
Past and present Saint-Jean-Baptiste: 2 photos, 1 old views
The set opens with Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Hôtel de ville de Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Photos show both of the places Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s registers name.
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
The old face of Saint-Jean-Baptiste
A single old picture: the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap it to see it full screen.
c. 1910Boom yearsPresbytère de la paroisse Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Rouville . - 1910Public domain
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-Jean-Baptiste since 1797: its early dates
Saint-Jean-Baptiste got its start in 1797. That makes it 229 years old. The name Saint-Jean-Baptiste comes from Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville, leader of 1702 Raid on Deerfield.
A single date stands for Saint-Jean-Baptiste as a municipality on Wikidata, July 1, 1855, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Highest designationsProvincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 2, by tier
1 Highest designations1 Provincial and local listings
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Highest designations
Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s top designation
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The registers find 8 places within 10 km of Saint-Jean-Baptiste
They belong to 3 towns, chiefly Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu and Beloeil. At 5.3 km, Manoir Rolland in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu is the closest. The earliest date is Maison natale Ozias-Leduc’s, 1800, 6 km away.
The 8 nearest, within 10 km
Manoir RollandClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1830 · 5.3 km away, in Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu
Maison Paul-Émile-BorduasClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1945 · 9.2 km away, in Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Homes by age
Saint-Jean-Baptiste built the most from 1961 to 1980, 32% of today’s homes
From 2016 to 2021 Saint-Jean-Baptiste added 5.9% of its homes, more than the typical town’s 4.1%. Like the typical town (18%), Saint-Jean-Baptiste has 20% of its homes from before 1961. Count back from today and half of Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s homes are older than 1981.
20%
Before 1961
32%
1961–80
27%
1981–2000
15%
2001–15
5.9%
2016–21
Saint-Jean-BaptisteTypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
3 lives that began in Saint-Jean-Baptiste before 1914
Tancrède-Charles Gaboury closes the list, born in 1851. In 1838 came the earliest, Amédée Gaboury. 4 Wikipedias cover Étienne Blanchard, the most of anyone here. Longest lived was Tancrède-Charles Gaboury, 86 years in all (1937).
Amédée Gaboury
Étienne Blanchard
Tancrède-Charles Gaboury
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Étienne Blanchard1843–1918 · Canadian politician
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Amédée Gaboury1838–1912 · Canadian politician
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Tancrède-Charles Gaboury1851–1937 · Member of Legislative Assembly of Quebec
Everyone born in Saint-Jean-Baptiste → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns its size
Saint-Jean-Baptiste has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,300 to 3,300 residents, by places on the registers.
Before 1961: 20% of Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 2 historic places, one with the highest designation, including Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. Its history in lives: Étienne Blanchard (1843), Amédée Gaboury (1838) and Tancrède-Charles Gaboury (1851). Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1960 and 2010.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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The tiers. Three tiers: the top for National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements, a second for the other federal designations, a third for provincial and municipal listings.
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People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
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The grade. History is described, not graded, for every Canadian town.
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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 federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
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Protection. Here the register is also the protection: classement and citation under Québec’s cultural heritage law control changes, while federal recognition does not.
Questions about Saint-Jean-Baptiste’s history
What is the oldest building in Saint-Jean-Baptiste?
Hôtel de ville de Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Municipal citation (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1797.
Which places in Saint-Jean-Baptiste have the highest designation?
It is Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
How old are the homes in Saint-Jean-Baptiste?
20% predate 1961, where 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.
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