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Monument funéraire de Louis Cyr · Photo: YanikB · CC BY-SA 4.0Few towns have as much for their size as Saint-Jean-de-Matha: 9.2 for every 10,000 residents, more than 98% of Canadian towns. Of the dated places, Ancien presbytère de Saint-Jean-de-Matha is the oldest, from 1884. Designations here include 5 municipal citations.
The set opens with Monument funéraire de Louis Cyr and Maison de Louis Cyr. All of Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s designated places are pictured. Open a place’s page for its old views: 2 places in Saint-Jean-de-Matha have them.
Maison de Louis Cyr
Ancien presbytère de Saint-Jean-de-Matha
Ancien couvent de Saint-Jean-de-Matha
Saint-Jean-de-Matha Church+1See all photosPhotos 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.
From before 1950 comes the oldest view of one of its historic places. Tap it to see it full screen.
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.
Saint-Jean-de-Matha is named after John of Matha, french saint and Catholic priest. Saint-Jean-de-Matha was known as Saint-Jean de Matha until 1969. In Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Saint-Jean-de-Matha dates from July 1, 1855; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
Parks Canada’s federal directory and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel supply these places: federal designations, the province’s classements and the municipalities’ citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
The first by rank are Ancien presbytère de Saint-Jean-de-Matha and Saint-Jean-de-Matha Church.
The groups come from each place’s name and its recorded functions, by what it was built as.
The oldest, Ancien presbytère de Saint-Jean-de-Matha, dates from 1884; the newest from 1912. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Their designations span 2005 to 2011. Each one opens its own page.
From 2016 on, Saint-Jean-de-Matha built 4.4% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. Like the typical town (18%), Saint-Jean-de-Matha has 20% of its homes from before 1961. Count back from today and half of Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s homes are older than 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Towns of 5,400 to 5,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. 11 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha | 5,415 | 5 | 0 | 1884 |
| Sainte-Béatrix | 2,388 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie | 1,856 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Damien | 2,569 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois | 7,670 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Mélanie | 3,417 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare | 1,941 | 0 | 0 | — |
Older stock first: 20% of homes in Saint-Jean-de-Matha were standing by 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The lists come to 5 historic places. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: Louis Cyr (1863) and Gus Dugas (1907) are its people of the past on the record; and its places were designated between 2005 and 2011.
The registers list 5 historic places inside Saint-Jean-de-Matha.
Ancien presbytère de Saint-Jean-de-Matha (Municipal citation (Québec)): the first construction date on its record is 1884.
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.
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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