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Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Courthouse · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Among the places are a municipal citation. For its size Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce is rich ground: 5.6 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 95% of Canadian towns. The earliest construction date, 1859, belongs to Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Courthouse.
Each of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s designated places has a photo. In front: Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Courthouse and Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Institutional Ensemble.
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.
In order of date: one old photograph of the town, then the oldest view of one of its historic places. A tap on any picture opens it with its credit.
c. 1910
1922Public 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.
Before 1965, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce went by Saint-Joseph. As a municipality, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce carries the date October 3, 1899 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
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.
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.
The oldest, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Courthouse, dates from 1859; the newest from 1865. Here that means a National Historic Site and a place classified by Québec. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 30% of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s homes. New building is strong in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce: 6.6% of homes date from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%. Over half of the homes in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce were already standing by 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 5,300 to 5,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. 12 of them have nothing on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce | 5,339 | 3 | 2 | 1859 |
| Saint-Frédéric | 1,172 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Vallée-Jonction | 2,042 | 1 | 0 | 1917 |
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tring-Jonction | 1,626 | 1 | 0 | 1914 |
| Beauceville | 6,228 | 1 | 0 | 1920 |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne | 1,460 | 0 | 0 | — |
The pre-1961 share of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s homes is 25%, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 3 historic places, 2 with the highest designation, including Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Institutional Ensemble. No town its size has more historic places: it leads the 16 nearest in population. The other figures are unremarkable: its past has lives on the record such as Vital Cliche (1890) and Joseph Poirier (1839); and the list grew between 2006 and 2012.
Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Institutional Ensemble and Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Courthouse.
Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Courthouse, a Classified heritage building (Québec), begun in 1859.
25% 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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