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History of Saint-Pacôme · Canada’s heritage registers

Older housing stands out in Saint-Pacôme: 47% predates 1961

For Saint-Pacôme, that is 2.7 times the typical town’s share, 18%. All told, the heritage lists hold 3 historic places within the town. The oldest dated place, Moulin Casgrain-Lévesque, goes back to 1840. On the list: 3 municipal citations.

Historic places
3
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
3
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1840
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
47%
typical town: 18%
Through time

Saint-Pacôme in old pictures

One old photograph of the town, made before 1950. A tap opens it at full size, with its credit.

Eglise Saint-Pacome - 1883c. 1883
Confederation to 1900Eglise Saint-Pacome - 1883Photo: ACSCSA, fonds du Collège · Public 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-Pacôme through its dates, from 1980

For the municipality of Saint-Pacôme itself, Wikidata records January 5, 1980, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger. The municipality succeeded Saint-Pacôme and Saint-Pacôme in 1980.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where Saint-Pacôme’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

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.

Provincial and local listings

On provincial and local lists in Saint-Pacôme: 3 places

They date from 1840 (Moulin Casgrain-Lévesque) to 1903. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. The first was designated in 2003, the latest in 2008. Each one opens its own page.

Homes by age

No home in Saint-Pacôme dates from 2016 to 2021; the typical town has 4.1%

Half of the homes standing in Saint-Pacôme today were built before 1981. Only 6.4% of Saint-Pacôme’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, less than the typical town’s 15%. In Saint-Pacôme, 29% of homes date from 1961 to 1980, much as in most towns (27%).

47%
Before 1961
29%
1961–80
19%
1981–2000
6.4%
2001–15
0%
2016–21
Saint-PacômeTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Saint-Pacôme and its neighbours

TownPeoplePlacesHighestOldest
Saint-Pacôme1,540301840
Rivière-Ouelle1,014211881
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière1,635101859
La Pocatière4,206101913
Mont-Carmel1,191101926
Saint-Pascal3,516201913
In brief

Saint-Pacôme in brief

Saint-Pacôme has 47% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 3 historic places in all. The rest is about typical: its past has one life on the record, Louis Philippe Lizotte (1891); and the designations ran from 2003 to 2008.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • 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.
  • People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
  • 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.
  • The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
  • 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.

Questions about Saint-Pacôme’s history

How old are the homes in Saint-Pacôme?

47% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.

How many historic places does Saint-Pacôme have on the registers?

3 historic places inside Saint-Pacôme, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.

What is the oldest building in Saint-Pacôme?

Moulin Casgrain-Lévesque — its record dates it to 1840 (Municipal citation (Québec)).

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).