Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Église Saint-Raphaël · Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes from before 1961 make up 33% of Saint-Raphaël’s stock, above the 18% of the typical town. The oldest dated place, Église Saint-Raphaël, goes back to 1849. 3 more stand just outside, within 5 km of the town’s edge. Among the places are 3 municipal citations.
The date Wikidata keeps for Saint-Raphaël is December 8, 1993; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open. A reorganization in 1993 folded in Saint-Raphaël and Saint-Raphaël.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Each dot is a place: point at it for the name, tap it for its 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.
Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They date from 1849 (Église Saint-Raphaël) to 1899. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Ancien presbytère de Saint-Nérée-de-BellechasseMunicipal citation (Québec) · 700 m outside the town |
| Magasin général de Saint-Nérée-de-BellechasseMunicipal citation (Québec) · 2 km outside the town |
| Église Saint-Nérée de Saint-Nérée-de-BellechasseMunicipal citation (Québec) · 2.2 km outside the town |
New building in Saint-Raphaël runs at the usual pace: 5.1% of homes from 2016–21, the typical town 4.1%. Few of Saint-Raphaël’s homes date from 1981 to 2000: 17%, the norm 23%. More than half of Saint-Raphaël’s housing predates 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-Raphaël | 2,488 | 3 | 0 | 1849 |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud | 1,550 | 2 | 2 | 1763 |
| Saint-Vallier | 1,026 | 4 | 1 | 1850 |
| Armagh | 1,437 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Gervais | 2,235 | 1 | 1 | 1817 |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse | 1,902 | 3 | 2 | 1740 |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | 2,739 | 9 | 0 | 1827 |
Of the homes standing in Saint-Raphaël, 33% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. The count is 3 historic places. The rest is about typical: its past has one life on the record, Jean-Jules Richard (1911); and all its places were designated in 2008.
3 historic places inside Saint-Raphaël, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
33% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
By its record, Église Saint-Raphaël, from 1849 (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).
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