Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Saint-Ours Canal · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Before 1961: 40% of Saint-Ours’s homes, where most towns have 18%. Inside the town the registers count 3 historic places; 2 are top designations. The list takes in a municipal citation.
All of Saint-Ours’s designated places are pictured. 2 of Saint-Ours’s places also have old views on their own pages. Two to begin with: Saint-Ours Canal and Domaine seigneurial de Saint-Ours.
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.
The oldest views of 2 of its historic places, in date order. Scroll the strip and tap a picture to open it.
c. 1910
c. 1920Public 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.
February 6, 1847 is the date of Saint-Ours’s municipality in Wikidata, and like many such dates it may record a charter, not the first homes. The name Saint Ours lasted until 1866, when Saint-Ours took another.
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.
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.
They are a National Historic Site and a place classified by Québec. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Their dates run from 1792, with Domaine seigneurial de Saint-Ours, to 1830. Each one opens its own page.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.
More than half of Saint-Ours’s housing predates 1981. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 11% of Saint-Ours’s, against 15% in the typical town. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Saint-Ours 28% of its homes, near the usual 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on 8 births here before 1914. By Wikipedia’s reach, Narcisse Pérodeau leads, with 5 articles. Of the 8, 7 were born in the years before Confederation. The longest life was Narcisse Pérodeau’s: 81 years, to 1932.
Everyone born in Saint-Ours → 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-Ours | 1,817 | 3 | 2 | 1792 |
| Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu | 2,984 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Contrecoeur | 10,708 | 2 | 2 | 1742 |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel | 2,599 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lanoraie | 5,694 | 1 | 1 | 1835 |
| Lavaltrie | 15,996 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu | 1,880 | 1 | 0 | — |
The pre-1961 share of Saint-Ours’s homes is 40%, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all, 2 with the highest designation; Saint-Ours Canal heads them. Narcisse Pérodeau (1851), Joseph Daigle (1831) and Louis Coderre (1865) are the best known of its historic lives. Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 1929 and 2012.
By its record, Domaine seigneurial de Saint-Ours, from 1792 (Classified heritage site (Québec)).
The 2021 Census dates 40% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
They are Saint-Ours Canal and Domaine seigneurial de Saint-Ours.
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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