Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Pictures of old Saint-Lucien, 1921–1947: 3 in all
5 places on the heritage registers lie within 10 km of Saint-Lucien, the nearest Maison du Sacristain, 9.5 km away. The closest top-tier heritage is in Drummondville, 11 km from here. Wikidata gives November 11, 1907 for the municipality, whether that is when it was founded, incorporated or merged.
1921–1947: Saint-Lucien in old pictures
Oldest first: 3 old photographs of the town. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.
1921
1943
1947Public 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.
5 places on Canada’s registers lie 10 km or less from Saint-Lucien
Closest of all is Maison du Sacristain, in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, 9.5 km off. The record reaches back to 1893 with Presbytère de Saint-Cyrille, 9.5 km away.
The 5 nearest, within 10 km
| Maison du SacristainMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1900 · 9.5 km away, in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover |
| Presbytère de Saint-CyrilleMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1893 · 9.5 km away, in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover |
| Saint-Cyrille ChurchMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1903–1905 · 9.5 km away, in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover |
| Receiving tomb of Saint-Cyrille-de-WendoverMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1898 · 9.5 km away, in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover |
| Grange-écurie de Saint-Cyrille-de-WendoverMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1900–1925 · 9.5 km away, in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover |
Saint-Lucien is still building: 8.2% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
Count back from today and half of Saint-Lucien’s homes are older than 2001. At 11%, Saint-Lucien’s share of pre-1961 homes is under the typical town’s 18%. Saint-Lucien’s largest group of homes, 33%, went up from 1981 to 2000.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Saint-Lucien and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Lucien | 1,941 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover | 5,242 | 5 | 0 | 1893 |
| Drummondville | 85,560 | 17 | 2 | 1837 |
| L'Avenir | 1,456 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey | 1,550 | 1 | 0 | 1840 |
| Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil | 1,950 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton | 1,647 | 0 | 0 | — |
Saint-Lucien in brief
Its housing is young: only 11% predates 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The federal register. Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations lists every National Historic Site, federal heritage building, heritage railway station and lighthouse; the Canadian Register of Historic Places adds their statements in English and French.
- 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.
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- People and events. The open directory puts its national historic persons nowhere, so a town shows one only on firm ground: a birth there, matched by name and life years, or a historic place there named for the person whose record says so. Events are left out.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
Questions about Saint-Lucien’s history
How many historic places does Saint-Lucien have on the registers?
Not inside Saint-Lucien. The closest is Maison du Sacristain in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, 9.5 km away.
When did Saint-Lucien become a municipality?
By Wikidata, Saint-Lucien dates from November 11, 1907; the record doesn’t say whether that is a founding, an incorporation or a merger.
How old are the homes in Saint-Lucien?
11% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · 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).