Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Maison Plamondon · Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Few towns have as much for their size as Saint-Raymond: 3.3 for every 10,000 residents, more than 91% of Canadian towns. The oldest dated place, Église Saint-Bartholomew de Saint-Raymond, goes back to 1840. Just beyond the boundary, the registers place one more. The record has 4 municipal citations.
The photos cover every place on Saint-Raymond’s registers. Leading off: Maison Plamondon and Église Saint-Bartholomew de Saint-Raymond. Credit goes to 3 photographers, each named on the photo.
Église Saint-Bartholomew de Saint-Raymond
Chapelle du cimetière de Saint-Raymond
Chapelle Saint-Agricole de Saint-Raymond+1See all photosPhotos 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.
4 old photographs of the town, from oldest to latest. The dots mark each picture’s year; tap one to enlarge it.
c. 1895
1920
1930s
1948Public 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 Wikidata’s entry, the municipality of Saint-Raymond dates from March 29, 1995; that can mean a founding, a charter or a merger. The municipality took over from Saint-Raymond (parish) and Saint-Raymond (town).
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.
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.
They date from 1840 (Église Saint-Bartholomew de Saint-Raymond) to 1915. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Designations came from 2002 to 2011. Each one opens its own page.
Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.
| Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Lac-SergentMunicipal citation (Québec) · 300 m outside the town |
Saint-Raymond has an unusual share of homes built from 2001 to 2015: 21%, where most towns have 15%. More of Saint-Raymond’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980 than in any other period: 25%. Homes from before 1961 are 21% of Saint-Raymond’s housing, about the typical 18%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
The most recent birth is Lucien Plamondon’s, in 1904. Before 1914, 5 births here made the record. Louis Jobin comes first, born in 1845. 5 Wikipedias cover Alexandre Vachon, the most of anyone here.
Everyone born in Saint-Raymond → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 11,900 to 12,000 residents, by places on the registers.
Only St. Andrews has more. The typical town its size has 0. For 10, the registers list nothing.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Raymond | 11,951 | 4 | 0 | 1840 |
| Saint-Léonard-de-Portneuf | 1,214 | 2 | 0 | 1953 |
| Saint-Basile | 2,918 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Fossambault-sur-le-Lac | 2,505 | 1 | 0 | 1902 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier | 9,830 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pont-Rouge | 11,339 | 3 | 2 | 1870 |
The 2021 Census dates 21% of Saint-Raymond’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 4 historic places in all. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just one has more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are Alexandre Vachon (1885), Louis Jobin (1845) and Joseph Bernard (1875). Everything else is close to the norm: its places were designated between 2002 and 2011.
Inside Saint-Raymond: 4 historic places.
By its record, Église Saint-Bartholomew de Saint-Raymond, from 1840 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
21% 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). 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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