Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Musée du fromage cheddar · Photo: Nyson · CC BY-SA 3.0Only a few towns match Saint-Prime per resident: 3.6 for every 10,000, ahead of 92% of Canadian towns. Musée du fromage cheddar, from 1895, is the town’s classified heritage building (québec).
On one line by date: one old photograph of the town and the oldest view of one of its historic places. Hover a dot for its date; tap a picture to see it full screen.
c. 1910
c. 1935Public 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.
In 1968 the municipality took over from Saint-Prime and Saint-Prime. As a municipality, Saint-Prime carries the date June 29, 1968 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
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.
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.
The mix: 3 municipal citations, 3 places classified by Québec and 2 National Historic Sites. Their towns number 3: Roberval, Chambord and La Doré first. Closest of all is Roberval Town Hall, in Roberval, 13 km off.
| Roberval Town HallNational Historic Site · 1928–1930 · 13 km away, in Roberval |
| Couvent des UrsulinesMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1925–1926 · 13 km away, in Roberval |
| Ancien presbytère Notre-DameMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1892 · 13 km away, in Roberval |
| Maison DonaldsonClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1872–1876 · 14 km away, in Roberval |
| Val-JalbertClassified heritage site (Québec) · 1901 · 22 km away, in Chambord |
| Historic Village of Val-JalbertNational Historic Site · 1901–1928 · 23 km away, in Chambord |
| 819, route de la PointeMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1863 · 24 km away, in Chambord |
| Moulin de La DoréClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1904 · 25 km away, in La Doré |
The busiest building years in Saint-Prime were from 1961 to 1980, which account for 28% of today’s homes. New building in Saint-Prime runs at the usual pace: 3.8% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%. Half of the homes standing in Saint-Prime today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Prime | 2,808 | 1 | 1 | 1895 |
| Mashteuiatsh | 2,074 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Félicien | 10,143 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Roberval | 9,828 | 4 | 2 | 1872 |
Of the homes standing in Saint-Prime, 25% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. In all there are 1 historic place, one with the highest designation, including Musée du fromage cheddar. The rest is about typical: it has one historic place, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 0); and its designation dates from 1989.
It is Musée du fromage cheddar.
Musée du fromage cheddar — its record dates it to 1895 (Classified heritage building (Québec)).
Before 1961: 25% of its homes; 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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